Dew Drop – October 9, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Choosing between Active Record, Fluent NHibernate and NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Stephen Forte)
• VB / C# Language Parity (Chris Williams)
• .NET Voice Recorder (Coding4Fun)
• Understanding the NHibernate Type System (Me)
• NHibernate Caching and Assigned Ids – A Potential Pitfall (Anne Epstein)
• Update on Maybe Monad: Q&As and Caveats (Rinat Abdullin)
• The .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security (Mike Hadlow)
• Hybrid App Debugging – Threading (Harry Pierson)
• What’s the difference between "as" and "cast" operators? (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• A S#arp Project Case Study (Billy McCafferty)
• An AutoMapper success story (Jimmy Bogard)
• jQueryPad (Paul Stovell)
• Who has the Best Cloud? Developers Weigh In (Mitch Pronschinske)
• ASP.NET Profiles in Web Application Projects (Lee Dumond)
• 8 Awesome Mashups Made Possible by APIs (Barb Dybwad)
• Add filepath to ConvertTo-HTML (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Using MvcContrib ScriptInclude, Stylesheet, And T4MVC (Elijah Manor)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD Triage (Uncle Bob Martin)
• My take on Duct Tape Programming (Wally McClure)
• How NH Prof integrate with a profiled application (Oren Eini)
• Measure twice, cut once (Larry Clarkin)
• Our Biggest Enemy Isn’t Developers Who Refuse To Move Forward, It is Developers Who Pretend To Move Forward (Justin Etheredge)
• The catalogue metaphor and command-query seperation architectures (Ian Cooper)
• Pragmatic Thinking & Learning Reviewed (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Critical Thinking and Dissent is a Requirement (Michael C. Neel)
• [pre-release] Better Image Handling, Assets Folders… (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• 200 Page Manual on Inversion of Control (plus or minus 199) (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Live Smooth Streaming Now Released – IIS Media Services 3.0 (Silverlight Team)
• A basic MVVM framework (Lester Lobo)
• Rant: Silverlight – You Do Not Want “Blue Balls” 🙂 (Mike Taulty)
• The “magic” of type converters (Rudi Grobler)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals, Chapter 2 of 13 and Introducing Microsoft Office Starter 2010 (Charles Torre)
• Peer to Peer Series Part 5: Direct Connect Peers via WCF (Jeff Brand)

 

Community / Events

• Windows 7 At PDC09 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Motorcycling racing and Microsoft (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Functional Programming Fundamentals Lectures (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Share Your Expertise as a Microsoft Ambassador (John McClelland)
• Open Hand? Or Closed Fist? (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Queries Waiting for Memory Allocation to Execute (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft planning ‘Starter’ edition of Office 2010 and Microsoft Exchange 2010 goes RTM (Cristian)
• The Zune HD vs. the iPod Touch (Part 2) (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Walt Mossberg: Windows 7 is ‘best version of Windows ever’ (Todd Bishop)
• Exchange 2010 is Code Complete and on its way to General Availability (Sumeeth Evans)
• Barnes and Noble ‘confirms’ color Plastic Logic e-book reader for Spring 2010 (video) (Thomas Ricker)
• Measuring Windows 7 performance (Ed Bott)
• Developers – Must Learn – Booting Windows 7 from a VHD (Karl Shifflett)

 

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 8-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #451 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: October 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for 8th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (10/8/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #558 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 378 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for October 08, 2009 — #707 (Dave Campbell)

 

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