Day: September 27, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading and Writing Text Files in One Command (Richard Carr)
• Extending the ObservableCollection to add navigation methods such as MoveFirst, MoveNext, MoveLast, and MovePrevious. (Brian Lagunas)
• DAL: Using a Data Provider Factory and Count Lines Of Code (Deborah Kurata)
• Must Everything Be Virtual With NHibernate, Part III (Davy Brion)
• Tired of entering your login info every time you open a CodePlex hosted Solution in Visual Studio? and A Feed You Should Read #5 – Team System Rocks (Greg Duncan)
• What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part III – Service-Discovery Feature (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Understanding T4: Preprocessed Text Templates (Oleg Sych) – Link of the Day
• Pondering Axum + F# (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

Web Development

• jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery (Dave M. Bush)
• Html Encoding Code Blocks With ASP.NET 4 (Phil Haack)
• MVC Turbine (Javier G. Lozano)
• Reimagining www.asp.net, Part Four: The Toolbox Experience (John Sheehan)
• Wine.com Uncorks Its API (Leena Rao)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer – Part 1 of 4 (Sara Chipps)
• Convert a Delimited String to a Generic List (Srinath MS)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Daily TDD Kata – now I’m doing what Jack does (Andrew Woodward)
• Become A Better Developer By Indexing Your Brain (Alan Skorkin)
• Distributed Source Control and Even tests has got to justify themselves (Oren Eini)
• Duct Tape Programming (Kirk Knoernschild)
• What Kind Of Developer Are You? (Davy Brion)
• Personal Kaizen: 15 Tips for your continuous improvement (Garr Reynolds)
• Debunking the duct tape programmer (Jeffrey Palermo)
• TDD: It makes you question what you’re doing and The Duct Tape Programmer: Some thoughts and Learning from others/Learning yourself (Mark Needham)
• Change is the only constant… (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Mockups for FogBugz, now shipping! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 17. (Rajiv Popat)
• UppercuT – Elegant Solution to Strong Naming (Rob Reynolds)
• Victory In Software Development (K. Scott Allen)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Saving Files from Silverlight (using Caliburn) (Christopher Bennage)
• Blend Behaviors (David Hill)
• Using RelayCommands in Silverlight and WPF and MVVM Light Toolkit Messenger V2 beta (Laurent Bugnion)
• ColorPicker Control for WPF/Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 124: Never Too Much Cilantro (Paul Thurrott)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 38: The Present and Future of Workflow Foundation with Brian Noyes – Part 2 (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: WebsiteSpark, Win7 BootCamp, useful PowerShell scripts (Dan Fernandez)
• Ping 31: Ars Technica, Website Spark, Embedded Spark, Cougars (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Comparing myself to Uncle Bob Martin (Andrew Woodward)
• PDC09 $300 discount ends October 13 (Devon Musgrave)
• 7 Years As A Professional Software Developer (Davy Brion)

 

Database

• Keep your DBA guard up at all times (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – FILESTREAM Storage in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• Report Builder 2.0 and Stored Procedures (William Vaughn)
• SQL Server MVP Deep Dives a book written by SQL Server MVPs supporting a good cause (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• If you are using SharePoint 2007 + Windows 7 and getting SLOW transfer rates within document libraries… (Shane Perran)

 

Miscellaneous

• 11 Powerful Twitter Tips (Garin Kilpatrick)
• Why I think Programmer is a Dirty Word (Chris Woodruff)
• git instaweb (Jason Meridth)
• Writing WMI providers FAQ series – 1 – If a provider doesn’t support query capabilities, how is the query handled by WMI? (Kapil Mathur)
• XNA on the Zune HD (Joel Ivory Johnson)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 26, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #91 – “Indian Summer” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Double Shot #548 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 374 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 25th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Weekly Links #72 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 112 (Rhonda Tipton)

 

Book of the Day