Dew Drop – September 11, 2009

 

Jump to: .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | PowerShell | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | Book of the Day

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Designing a system with DSLs (Oren Eini)
• Adding Workdays to a Date (Chad Juliano)
• Using Exception.Data to Append Data to Error Stack (Dave Schinkel)
• What’s the difference between conditional compilation and the conditional attribute? (Eric Lippert)
• C# – A Simple Way to Process Command Line Arguments (Michael Ceranski)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET AJAX Preview 5 (Chris G. Williams)
• On the Road to iTextFileResult: Getting the Results from System.Web.MVC.WebFormViewEngine (Jay Kimble)
• Lucene.net vs. Indexing Services, or “How to conquer your fear of index management” (Kyle Baley)
• Box goes mobile with new OpenBox API (Josh Lowensohn)
• Simplifying Cross Browser Compatibility Testing (Mike Ormond)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CodeRush TestRunner (Andrew Stopford)
• NHibernate Profiler v1.0 Released (Oren Eini)
• Pressure, Expressed in Initial Development Time (Jay Fields)
• Wither the Repository (Jimmy Bogard)
• Improving Testability of GUI Code, an Example (Brett Schuchert)
• Agile is never ‘no process’ (Ian Cooper)
• Git local pre-commit hook and "git commit -a" and "git add" (Jason Meridth)
• Using the Specification Pattern for Querying (Chris Missal)
• Why do I develop with passion!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• What is your basic navigation structure for WPF/WinForms/Silverlight/Swing/Cocoa applications? and Graceful Shutdown Braindump (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
• The three stages of learning team leadership and Immediate and delayed satisfaction in software development (Roy Osherove)
• Bloggers compare Git notes (Ryan Menezes)
• Who decides what is a bug and what should be fixed? (Shrini Kulkarni)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Caliburn RC3 (Rob Eisenberg)
• TreeView Selector (Rudi Grobler)
• Using Large Message Requests in Silverlight with WCF (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stack Overflow Podcast #67 (Jeff Atwood)
• Podcast: Are You Doing What It Takes to Succeed at Implementing SharePoint? (Dux Raymond Sy)
• What are .NET Services? (Nigel Watling)
• InfoPath 2010 Overview Video and Building forms with InfoPath 2010 (S.S. Ahmed)

 

Community / Events

• CodePlex Foundation (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft creates the CodePlex foundation (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• PDC09 $500 discount ends September 15 (Devon Musgrave)
• PDC 2009 – Patterns of Parallel Programming (Doug Holland)
• Evolving the PDC09 Event Site (Mike Swanson)
• Congratulations to the TeamCity.Codebetter.Com team! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• SQLAuthority News – Why I am Going to Attend PASS Summit Unite 2009- Seattle (Pinal Dave)
• Simone Chiaretta turns 35 and gives away a Mindscape Mega Pack professional subscription (Simone Chiaretta)
• How to contribute to open source without writing a single line of code (Krzysztof Koźmic)

 

Database

• Using Mirroring to Reduce DB Migration Downtime (Part 1) and (Part 2) (Ted Krueger)
• SQL 2008 Express Download – Getting the exe and Does debugging in SQL 2008 require sysadmin privileges (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Azure Does Stored Procedures (Stephen Forte)
• Be Careful When Uninstalling SQL 2008 R2 CTP (Ken Simmons)

 

PowerShell

• What’s new in PowerShell 2? (Joel Bennett)
• XP and W2K3 Release Candidate Versions of PowerShell are Now Available for Download (Jeffrey Snover)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Deployment Services benefits even small shops/individuals (Andrew Connell)
• Data Visualization and Infographics Resources (Cameron Chapman)
• New Windows 7 advert (Steve Clayton)
• Collision Physics With Small Basic (Vijaye)
• Friday Fun: Survival Kit For Microsoft Employees Owning iPhone (Krishnan Subramanian)
• September’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Microsoft’s Bing 2.0: Coming this fall (maybe even next week) (Sumeeth Evans)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #431 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman Links for September 10, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Cream for September 10, 2009 — #689 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #538 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 369 and New and Notable 370 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 10th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (9/10/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

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