Dew Drop – December 15, 2009

 

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No time for descriptions in Top Links today. Sorry!

 

Top Links

• Use the right tool for the job (Eric Lippert)
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit (Scott Guthrie)
• RssResult – An ASP.NET MVC RSS ActionResult (William Duffy)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Zoom Zoom! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Pixel8 Podcast – Silverlight4 with Tim Heuer and Jesse Liberty (Craig Shoemaker)
• MVVM Study Part 5: Convention over Configuration (Rob Eisenberg)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Database Design (Ted Krueger)
• What 25 Holiday Classics Teach Us About Life and Fun (JD Meier)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Office 2010 Beta Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path is denied (Dave Schinkel)
• C# QuickSort using Continuation Passing Style (As requested by a comment) (Edmondo Pentangelo)
• “Everything You Need to Know About Azure as a Developer” 18 part course on msdev.com updated to include four new Windows Azure AppFabric sessions (Greg Duncan)
• Entity Framework POCO (EF4): A Simple Mapping (Jarod Ferguson)
• Going Hybrid – Implementing a Shopping Cart in F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Book Review – Programming Entity Framework (EF) by Julie Lerman (Peter Kellner)
• Building setup and deployment packages in VS 2010 (Somasegar)
• Telerik Data Services Wizard Walk Through (Stephen Forte)
• Customizing Visual Studio 2010 (Suzanne Hansen)

 

Web Development

• Google Releases Fusion Tables API for Visualizing and Sharing Data (Andres Ferrate)
• Using WCF RIA Services without Silverlight in Visual Studio 2010 for building 3 tier ASP.NET Applications (Harish Ranganathan)
• 3rd Public Drop Available for Web Client Guidance (Blaine Wastell)
• How the IIS SEO Toolkit Saved My Butt (Phil Haack)
• The New Google App Engine Blobstore API – First Thoughts (Eran Kampf)
• Quick and dirty way to auto-copy ASP.NET WebSite using MSBuild (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Back up your Site/Blog by Crawling it with HTTrack (Pete Brown)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ralph Waldo Emerson Would’ve Been a Great Developer (Tim Barcz)
• Adopting or Adapting Agile (Julie Stickler)
• I’m Not In It For The Money and The Padawan That Couldn’t (Davy Brion)
• Sometimes it is the ‘little’ things in life that make one happy (Derik Whittaker)
• Coding: The little details all add to our understanding and TDD: Only Mock Types You Own (Mark Needham)
• Towards FsUnit 1.0 (Ray Vernagus)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• 12 Days of RIA – Day 6 – Pagination (John Pelak)
• Build your own databinding inspector in Silverlight Spy (Koen Zwikstra)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9 features Silverlight AR, BugCamSmash and Blend Extensibility (Adam Kinney)
• New Tech Talks Posted (Ian Fette)
• endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric in action monitoring and troubleshooting (Ron Jacobs)
• Pete at PDC09: Rick Barraza and Mike Wolf – Star Trek Experience (Pete Brown)
• Ping 41: Top stories of 2009, bing, windows 7, laptop hunters, azure (Laura Foy)
• Rx API in depth: Hot and Cold observables (Jeffrey van Gogh)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing Discount, Keynote, and Speakers for SharePoint 2010 @ The Experts Conference 2010 (Joel Oleson)
• Two new BDD workshops available (Gojko Adzic)
• IronRuby @ RubyConf 2009 – Part 3.5: Embedding IronRuby (Jimmy Schementi)

 

Database

• Perform a Striped Backup (Bru Medishetty)
• Wizards are evil – wait, no they aren’t! (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – Difference TempTable and Table Variable – TempTable in Memory a Myth (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• We did it! LightSpeed 3.0 is done! (JD Trask)
• How to set Replication Directory Changes (SharePoint Team)
• SharePoint 2010 Beta Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows PowerShell Help for SharePoint Server 2010 and Windows PowerShell Help for Office Web Apps and Windows PowerShell Help for Project Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• fb.me: Facebook Now Has Its Own URL Shortener and Goo.gl: Google Launches a URL Shortener, Too (Ben Parr)
• Zoho Reports Moves Out of Beta, Pricing Plans Announced (Clarence Rozario)
• PowerGUI Survey (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• A Feed You Should Read #15 – LiveSide.net (Greg Duncan)
• The PowerShell of the Future (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Microsoft should take Zune to the cloud, offer music for any device (Joe Wilcox)
• Stack Overflow Rack Glamour Shots (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 12/14/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #498 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman Links for December 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/14/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Windows Azure – Great Resources (Gunther Lenz)
• Tech Tweets for 14-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Article Index (Peter Blum)

 

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