Dew Drop – January 10, 2010

 

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Top Links

• Dear Microsoft: Please Simplify Your Platform for Developers (Keith Elder)
• Image Blitting in Silverlight with WriteableBitmapEx (Adam Kinney)
• Externalizing Settings for Data-Dependent Unit Tests using Proteus DatabaseUnitTestBase (Steve Bohlen)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Beware of Evil Wizards (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Web Development

• Patterns and Origins: Sueetie SiteSettings and Patterns and Origins: The SueetieApplication Class (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC Mobile Detection & Redirection (matrixmesh)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: An F# attempt (Mark Needham)
• Leadership Tip: Stick To Your Core Values And Pass Them On Across Teams. (Rajiv Popat)
• There’s Nothing Courageous About Being Honest About Mistakes (Davy Brion)
• We Want Our Small Companies Back (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part II (Bob McIlree)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Sketching, painting and Figure drawing (Pavan Podila)
• A WPF Behavior for Window Resize Events in .NET 3.5 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight : MVVM Library and File Upload (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms – Part 2 using Silverlight 4 (Fredrik Normen)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 138: Live From CES 2010 (Paul Thurrott)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #79 (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code 67: Udi Dahan on Scalability (Jon Galloway)

 

Community / Events

• Winners of the TekPub LINQ Challenge (Justin Etheredge)

 

Database

• Calculate the Number of Business Days in a Range (Richard Carr)
• SQLAuthority News – Download – Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure November CTP (32-bit) (Pinal Dave)
• Turning off the ghost cleanup task for a performance gain (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• How to Configure Legacy Devices to Run on Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Predictions for 2010 Part III- The Cloud (Stephen Forte)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: 2010 01.01 ~ 01.09 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #87 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for January 09, 2010 — #773 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: January 9, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• What Is Hot In Open Source? (weekly) (Krishnan Subramanian)

 

The Geek Shelf

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