Dew Drop – September 25, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• First CTP of SQL Azure and Updated Training Kit Available! (Windows Azure Team)
• Metaprogramming (Me)
• Two Components for your Toolbox (Aaron Lerch)
• NHibernate DSL Built Using "Oslo" (Chris Sells)
• Why is covariance of value-typed arrays inconsistent? (Eric Lippert)
• Running Multiple Instances of a Windows Service Using TopShelf (Kevin Miller)
• Creating .Net Configuration Sections (Michael Cummings)
• Neat Visual Studio Test Options (Steve Andrews)
• Debug Composition from within Visual Studio (Nicholas Blumhardt)

 

Web Development

• New Features in Web Platform Installer v2 (Adam Kinney)
• Using JQuery to supplement CSS inadequacies (Dave Burke)
• Reimagining www.asp.net, Part Three: The Community Experience (John Sheehan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simplifying deployment (Simon Brown)
• Complex vs Complicated (Dru Sellers)
• Ship it, or Ship Out (Jak Charlton)
• CI Servers and Build Scripts and Continous Integration Workflow (Jonathan Oliver)
• XP As A Kanban System (Karl Scotland)
• TDD: Tests That Give Us a False Confidence of Coverage (Mark Needham)
• Being a Duct Tape Programmer (Michael C. Neel)
• BAM! Geometric Shapes, Multi-Line support, Oh my! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 18. (Rajiv Popat)
• Manifesto for Continuous Improvement and Why managing a software team can be more effective than "regular" management (Roy Osherove)
• The Duct Tape Programmer (Uncle Bob Martin)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight VisualBrush and rounded corners (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight designer sample code is posted (Jim Galasyn)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #199 – Monomania – Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware (Scott Hanselman)
• AgileToolkit Podcast – Jim Miller – The Product Owner Role and Business Alignmnet (Bob Payne)
• Scott Guthrie: Introducing WebsiteSpark and Web Platform Installer V2 RTM (Charles Torre)
• Web Application Toolkits and Web Application Toolkit: Template-Driven Emails and Web Application Toolkit: REST Services and Web Application Toolkit: Mobile Web Applications (Jonathan Carter)
• Xbox 360 Project Natal Creators panel from Tokyo Game Show 2009 (Larry Hyrb)
• Be Productive and Stop Using XML and Be Productive and Go Mouseless (Roy Osherove)
• Web Application Toolkits: FAQ (James Senior)
• InfoPath SharePoint integration videos now online (Kathy Hughes)
• Ade Miller on Developing for Multi-Core Computers (Keith Pleas)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing WebOSSFlame (Scott Koon) – Link of the Day
• Microsoft offers free software and support to small software companies (Justin Sargent)

 

Database

• Filtered indexes and filtered stats might become seriously out-of-date (Kimberly Tripp)
• SQL SERVER – Outer Join in Indexed View – Question to Readers (Pinal Dave)
• The last good date for your database (Steve Jones)

 

SharePoint

• Deploying Reporting Services WebParts to SharePoint WSS and MOSS (Tom Hearn)
• Planning for SharePoint 2010 – Upgrade Planning Part 2 Moving the Databases (Chandima Kulathilake)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge (Mary-Jo Foley)
• PowerShell Cookbook Now Available on iPhone (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft Releases Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit v3.5 (Blake Handler)
• Early debut for Windows 7 PCs (Todd Bishop)
• Ruby Exceptions And Exception Handling (Alan Skorkin)
• Good information is easy to find (Joe Webb)
• Kinda wishing I could keep using Delphi (Joe White)
• Microsoft Press Enters Strategic Alliance with O’Reilly (Tim O’Reilly)
• New Evernote beta brings face-lift, drawing tools (Josh Lowensohn)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #441 (Chris Alcock)
• Links (9/24/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Windows 7 and R2 Guides (Steven Bink)
• Weekly Bits #1 (Tim Boland)
• Tech Tweets for 24-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 24th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #548 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: September 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)

 

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