Dew Drop – November 3, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• An RSS Dashboard in F#, part one (Brian McNamara)
• New Article on Detecting Memory Leaks . NET Applications and CSharp “How Do I Videos (Podcasts)” for the Zune Software (Charlie Calvert)
• Questionnaire DSL with Microsoft "Oslo" (Chris Sells)
• Awesome F# – Decision Trees – Part II (Chris Smith)
• IronRuby 0.9.2 (Jim Deville)
• When NHibernate Won’t Do What You Think It Should (Jak Charlton)
• Touch and Gestures (Jason Ipock) – Link of the Day
• T4 Template Goodness (Sacha Barber)
• Result of my survey on the usage of ORM Frameworks in .NET (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• I Love FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies! (Peter Kellner)
• Concurrent Visualization Techniques in the VS2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)
• Prioritizing CSLA .NET work items (Rockford Lhotka)
• Encrypting and Decrypting Data Using X.509 Certificates (Joel Ross)
• Simple names are not so simple (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• November 2009 JavaScript Magazine is now available! (Michael Kimsal)
• Walking through a new Web Application in Visual Studio 2010 (.NET 4.0) (Jef Claes)
• Ambiguous References in DefaultWsdlHelpGenerator.aspx (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas – Part 2 (Eric Hexter)
• Using ASP.NET and Jcrop to crop images online (Gunnar Peipman)
• MvcMaps Preview 1 – A Unified Bing/Google Maps API for ASP.NET MVC (Chris Pietschmann)
• Implementing KeyBoard Shortcuts on an ASP.NET Hyperlink Control using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Access a Control by ID From Within a Databound Control (Dave M. Bush)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The bouncer pattern (Sebastian Hermida)
• Form – Storm – Norm – Perform (Jason Grundy)
• The 7 signs your UI was created by a programmer (Ian Voyce)
• Book Review: “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know” (Will Kelly)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 7 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: a nice basket of low-hanging fruit (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Emergence in Development Teams (Jurgen Appelo)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Let’s use it. (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 8 (Michael Feathers) (Mark H. Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Building a Zune Website with Expression Blend 3 StarterKit (MS Downloads)
• Customers using Prism and Prism release for Silverlight 3.0 (Blaine Wastell)
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and SL 3.0 (Bob Brumfield)
• As the platform evolves, so do the workarounds [Better SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better-er!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight From Zero (Jesse Liberty)
• New WPF Feature: Binding to Dynamic Objects (Lester Lobo)
• LINQ shortcut when using Silverlight and ADO .NET Data Services (Stephen Forte)
• Frame Rates (Kirupa Chinnathambiis)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Vittorio Bertocci authenticates us with WIF (Carl Franklin)
• Channel 9 Learning Centers Offer Developers Free Training (Bruce Kyle)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 008 – Gary Short on using XAF to build WebForm and WinForm apps (Eric Nelson)
• First Look: Microsoft “Health Tech Today” (Bill Crounse, MD)
• Ping 36: Zune, Seth MacFarlane, voice recognition, Impatient Optimists (Laura Foy)
• Talking Architects – Neil Ward-Dutton (Matt Deacon)
• endpoint.tv – High Performance WCF .NET Stock Trader with Greg Leake (Ron Jacobs)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #150: Adding IoC Support to your WCF Services (Derik Whittaker)

 

Community / Events

• Stack Overflow Careers: Amplifying Your Awesome (Jeff Atwood)
• More Twitter List goodies: official list widgets! (Jay Hathaway)
• Events This Week – November 2nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• A week of Monospace and Innotech (Gary Sherman)
• November Conferences (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft December Developer Dinner for Partners – Parallel Computing for Managed Developers (Joel Reyes)
• CodeMash 2010 Registration Open! (Jim Holmes)

 

Database

• How to get the most out of 96 cores (Simon Sabin)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation / Resources (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint Designer 2010 New Shell Tour (Kolby Hoover)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Complete Guide to Google Wave Is a Comprehensive Book on Wave (Adam Pash)
• Clicky is Google Analytics all grown up (Jason Clarke)
• WaveSandbox.com: Federate This (Pamela Fox)
• UI Extensibility in Office 2010 (Mirko Mandic)
• Windows 7 SP1 details begin to surface (Steven Bink)
• Google opens up Wave federation (Tom Krazit)
• 10 Things I am Loving About Windows 7 (Chris Lentz)
• Microsoft, what is the meaning of this? (Rob Eisenberg) – A curious email from MS about Azure.
• Lightweight (Kimberly Wolk) – A new look for MSDN.
• HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists (Josh Catone)
• PowerPack Challenge: The Winning Strategy (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Download ten free Windows 7 chapters (Devon Musgrave)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #468 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: November 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/2/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 02, 2009 — #722 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #96 (David Vidmar)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/02/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Double Shot #575 and Double Shot #574 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 387 (Sam Gentile)

 

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