Dew Drop – October 11, 2009

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

.NET / Visual Studio

• Zune HD Level Program Written in XNA (John O’Donnell)
• Beware Uri.ToString and Did FxCop tell you to use System.Uri? (Keith Brown)
• Mono, open source and Azure (Louis Salin)
• T4 Toolbox: Support for Visual Studio 2010 (Oleg Sych)
• Debug without a Debugger and Extension Methods Coding Convention (Ariel Raunstien)

Web Development

• What REST APIs do you consume in your apps? (John Sheehan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Test Infrastructure (Sasha Goldshtein)
• UX ROI: User Experience Return on Investment (Vibor Cipan)
• Git renames (Oren Eini)
• DDD: Entity Injection and Mocking Time (Jonathan Oliver)
• Pair Programming: API exploration (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• AvalonEdit, a (the?) WPF code editor component from the SharpDevelop team (think WPF based, monster cool, code editing, IDE like, uber textbox +10) (Greg Duncan)
• MVVM for Tarded Folks Like Me *or* MVVM and What it Means to Me (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Build a Better Accordion (Someone? Please?) (Ariel Raunstien)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes Live: Gadgets, Hi-Def, WebCams, 4G and More (Scott Hanselman)
• SQL Server Resource Governor (Mike Wilmot)

Community / Events

• Philadelphia’s code retreat (Sebastian Hermida)
• My 25th Birthday (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

• Things you might not know about Precedence Constraints : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Cast and Convert Functions (Richard Carr)
• SQLAuthority News – Accessing SQL Server Databases with PHP (Pinal Dave) – Link of the Day

Miscellaneous

• Installing Ubuntu on Hyper-V (Mike Hadlow)
• Creative Commons Data Dump Oct 09 (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for October 10, 2009 — #708 (Dave Campbell)
• Links for the Week of 2009.10.09 (Jeremiah Peschka)

Book of the Day