Dew Drop – January 28, 2010

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Top Links

• Learning to Write (Software) (Caleb Jenkins)
• How do I expose configuration information through MEF? (Glenn Block)
• .NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentBag (Justin Etheredge)
• NDepend v3 is now 100% integrated in Visual Studio. (Patrick Smacchia)
• Opinion & Review: Apple’s iPad (Blake Handler)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Simple Query Results Caching with EF4 (Dan Simmons)
• Making an Ocean with XNA (Louis Ingenthron)
• C# in Depth, 2nd Edition (Ferdinando Santacroce)
• Delegates and Lambda Expressions (John Oriente)
• MonoTouch on iPad (MonoTouch Team)
• Passing around an ObjectContext: by value or reference? (Julie Lerman)
• Transparently releasing components in Windsor (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Configuring SmtpClient to drop emails in a folder on disk (Mike Hadlow)
• Searching Breakpoints — vstipDebug0002 (Zain Naboulsi)
• NHibernate new feature: No proxy associations (Oren Eini)

Web Development

• Drupal Goes Hosted With Private Beta Launch of “Gardens” (Invites) (Robin Wauters)
• Extensible Output Caching with ASP.NET 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Dynamic Select Lists with MVC and jQuery (Mike Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An op for Microsoft to nail the low hanging fruit: Cloudify every app’s settings/config (Andrew Connell)
• The tension between software architects and their employers (Simon Brown)
• Moving To A Distributed Version Control System (Ade Miller)
• Securing Your Agatha Service Layer (Davy Brion)
• Agile Tenet #11 – Self Organizing Teams (Julie Stickler)
• 3 Pillars of Architecture (Kirk Knoernschild)

Silverlight / WPF

• Fluent Silverlight – Binding control events to actions (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• XAML: writing down all values of an object? (Rob Relyea)
• Announcing the First User Interface (UI) Components for Silverlight 4 (Silverlight Team)
• Chapter Excerpt in CODE magazine (Pavan Podila)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Catching up with Juval Löwy (Carl Franklin)
• Connected Show Podcast – Agile: Putting the “Soft” in Software (Brian Johnson)
• MSDN Tiki Hut Roadshow, Silverlight Edition (Emily Gibson)
• 157 Power Point Templates (Tina Wood)
• This Week in Testing Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 4) (Dror Helper)

Community / Events

• Registration Open For SharePoint Saturday – Feb. 27th. (Jim O’Neil)
• The Code Retreat Tour 2010 (Corey Haines)
• I’ll be speaking at Philly ALT.NET on Domain Driven Design (Stephen Bohlen)

Database

• SQL Server Temporary Tables (Richard Carr)
• SQL Search 1.0 Beta Available (Brad M. McGehee)
• Cleaning up sys.dm_exec_cached_plans (Dave Ballantyne)
• Backup and copy warm-standby (log shipped) databases in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 2: optimizing log block IO size and how log IO works) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• A Shoemaker’s Advice on SharePoint Training: It’s Not Just About the Tools (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Creating Limit Filters in SharePoint Designer 2010 (Phill Duffy)

Miscellaneous

• Apple iPad: A Comprehensive Guide (Ben Parr)
• The disappointments of Apple iPad (Imran Hussain)
• Bye Bye Arrow Keys (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Apple’s Solution For The iPad’s Missing SD Card Slot And USB port: Adapters (Matt Burns)
• Microsoft & Internet Freedom (Steve Ballmer)
• Daily Dose – Is the iPad Everything We Thought it Would Be? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Office 2012: Estimated RTM Dates Surface on an MSDN Blog and Engineering 8: Microsoft’s Windows 8 Blog to be Determined… (Stephen Chapman)
• Apple Drops an iDud (Paul Thurrott)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: The Social Media Marketing Book — Only $9.99! Use discount code SMMB9 (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LX (Charlie Calvert)
• Tech Tweets for 27-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #527 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 27, 2010 — #788 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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