Day: September 24, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• PowerCommands for Reflector 1.1 (Jason Haley)
• Extension Methods I Use A Lot (Kevin Miller)
• IronPython 2.6 Release Candidate (Harry Pierson)
• The Case Against Location: File System (Dave M. Bush)
• Math Without a Floating Point Unit (Joel Ivory Johnson)

 

Web Development

• How To Secure APIs and Mashups (Adam DuVander)
• Reimagining www.asp.net, Part One: The Home Page Experience and Part Two: The Support Experience (John Sheehan)
• A First Look at ASP.NET MVC 2 (Ben Scheirman) – Link of the Day
• Sorting Data in ASP.NET MVC (Michael Ceranski)
• MvcContrib 1.0.0.987 released (Jeffrey Palermo)
• jQuery Tabs and Lazy Loading (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Microsoft, Zend and others announce Simple API for Cloud Application Services (Joe Stagner)
• Debugger Visualizers not working in ASP.NET Medium Trust (Rick Strahl)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Documentation Driven Development! (David Lemphers)
• Albacore: A Suite Of Rake Build Tasks For .NET Solutions (Derick Bailey)
• 5 Focus Killers … and How to Beat Them (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Coding Priorities (Dave M. Bush)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Share Workspaces in Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Microsoft Silverlight comes to Linux, First stop: Moblin (Brad Linder)
• If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a … TreeGrid! [A simple, XAML-only TreeGrid UI for WPF] (David Anson)
• MultiBinding for Silverlight 3 (Josh Twist)
• WCF and Silverlight Walk Through (Stephen Forte)
• System.Xaml: IAmbientPropertyProvider Sample (Lester Lobo)
• Adding ToArgb() to the Silverlight Color class (Jeff Wilcox)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Giving the Gift of Technology (Carl Franklin)
• Getting Started with SQL Azure (David Gristwood)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #143: Performing Static Page Checking in MVC (Steven Andrews)
• A User Experience Overhaul with Silverlight and MVVM (Mike Ormond)
• Herding Code 60: Spark View Engine with Louis DeJardin (Jon Galloway)
• Anti-XSS Library v3.1: Find, Fix, and Verify Errors (Jossie Tirado)
• Juval Lowy – The EnergyNet and the next Killer App (Robert Hess)

 

Community / Events

• Live from LA, It’s the FREE Windows 7 Developer Bootcamp! (Tim Sneath)
• Announcing the WebsiteSpark Program (Scott Guthrie)
• Orlando .NET User Group Talk – 12 Practices to be a Better Developer (Scott Densmore)
• Competing on the unpopular (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Will Git Drive Open Source Contribution (Chris Missal)
• TeamCity and CodeBetter update, or “How to move past the honeymoon phase” (Kyle Baley)

 

Database

• Free SQL Server Dashboard (Brad M. McGehee)
• New book: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Programming (Devon Musgrave)
• Use INDEXKEY_PROPERTY in SQL Server to determine if columns in indexes are sorted ascending or descending (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Index on Index View Used in Similar Query (Pinal Dave)
• Book Club: Versioning your database (K. Scott Allen) (Mark Needham)

 

SharePoint

• Low impact text changing in SharePoint with jQuery (Bil Simser)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Help and learn from others as you browse the web: Google Sidewiki (Sundar Pichai)
• Powershell and Passionate Evangelism (Andy Warren)
• SkyDrive to become the center stage of Windows Live? (damaster)
• Using Log4Net in PowerShell (Gary Sherman)
• Top 5 Outlook 2010 Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• The simple stuff of great presentations (Steve Clayton)
• Windows Live Included With Windows 7? (Sunshine)
• Can a Windows geek learn to love Snow Leopard? (Ed Bott)
• Empowering your My Computer Context Menu – Make some commonly used applications and features just a right click away (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft should dig into the WebKit to stop Google from framing IE (Joe Wilcox)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 23, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #440 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 23, 2009 — #698 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 23rd September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day