Dew Drop – January 27, 2010

Happy tablet day!

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Top Links

• The Weekly Source Code 48 – DynamicQueryable makes custom LINQ expressions easier (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing the Managed Assembly TekPub Giveaway (John Sheehan)
• Context and Best Practices (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate new feature: Lazy Properties (Oren Eini)
• I just installed Visual Studio 2010, now how do I get Code Contracts? (Melitta Andersen)
• Relating CSLA .NET experience (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to detect the text encoding of a file (Sergio Pereira)
• Microsoft-Compatible APIs in Mono 2.4 (Tapas Pal)
• Automapper: Don’t forget Mapper.Reset() at the start (Mark Needham)
• Agatha Vs NServiceBus? (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• URL Routing in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
• Simple (?) AJAX Upload For ASP.NET (Charles Chen)
• Populate an ASP.NET ListBox from JSON results using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ASP.NET: ListBox Scrollbar (Deborah Kurata)
• CSS Basics: The Box Model (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• MVC or WebForms: It’s more about client side vs server side (Ian Cooper)
• Pumping ‘Iron’ for JavaScript (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Gracefully Failing (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Coding: The Collecting Parameter Pattern (Mark Needham)
• Giving feedback to defensive people (Patrick Kua)
• Career Growth and Finding Your Way Forward (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft Releases a Cross-Platform Silverlight Client for Facebook (Me)
• Binding UI Events from View to commands in ViewModel in Silverlight 4 (Slobodan Pavkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – oData (Carl Franklin)

• Community Megaphone Show #2 with guest Joel Cochran (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #160: A deeper look into AutoMapper: Projection and Flattening Objects (Derik Whittaker)
• Show Us Your Tech: Juan Goni Edition (Larry Larsen)
• The Visual Studio Documentary Mardi Brekke-Hutchings and Dee Dee Walsh full length interview (Tina Wood)
• I. M. Wright podcast: "Spontaneous Combustion of Rancid Management" (Devon Musgrave)

Community / Events

• How to Participate in the SQL Community – Draft #1 (Andy Warren)
• O’Reilly Webcast tomorrow, Jan 27, Top 10 Treats in EF4 (Julie Lerman)
• If you build it, they will come… (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• The Code Retreat Tour 2010 (Corey Haines)
• The Center for the Advancement of Enterprise Architecture as a Profession (CAEAP) (Bob McIlree)

Database

• Attaching a Database (Buck Woody)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 R2 – Release Date in May 2010 (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Time-out occurs While Waiting for Buffer Latch (Viswa)

SharePoint

• SPWeb.AssociatedGroups.Contains Lies (Keith Dahlby)

Miscellaneous

• Ebookpie.com launches with Wrox Chapters and ebooks (Jim Minatel)
• Unlock thumbnail previews for Firefox 3.6 on Windows 7 (Ed Bott)
• New in PowerGUI 2.0: Snapshots (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Daily Dose – SourceForge Blocks the "Axis of Evil" and Then Some (Mitch Pronschinske)
• SmartDraw 2010: An Easy-to-use Diagramming Tool (Will Kelly)
• The Astoria Team Is hiring !!! (Phani Raj)
• The PowerScripting Centennial (Lee Holmes)
• Ballmer’s tablet bumble (Robert Scoble)
• Office 2010 Technology in Action at the Winter Games in Vancouver (Office Team)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Using Drupal — Only $9.99! Use discount code UD999 (O’Reilly Media)
• Documentary Featuring Bill Gates Scores at Sundance (Sarah Perez)
• The Tablet Could Spur A Media Revolution, But It Will Be Out Of Apple’s Hands (Jason Kincaid)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #526 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 26, 2010 — #787 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers)