Dew Drop – February 1, 2010

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Top Links

• Windows Home Server Vail CTP4 Leaks, Includes a Built-in App Store (Anum Lodhi)
• STUPID goals (Christophe Louvion)
• Running static code analysis on SQL Server database with Visual Studio Team System for database architects (Denis Gobo)
• Good Team Dynamics Are Essential For High Technical Quality (Davy Brion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming – PDC 2009 (Luke Hoban)
• XML Documentation Comments and Finding a Node in an XML String (Deborah Kurata)
• MEF and decrypting LoaderExceptions (Derik Whittaker)
• .NET Framework 4.0: Comparing LINQ and PLINQ performance (Gunnar Peipman)
• NServiceBus 2.0 Release Candidate 2 Available (Udi Dahan)
• Application running in the iPad Simulator (Wally McClure)
• Exporting dynamically changing configuration values (Glenn Block)
• Guidelines, a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor — vstipEdit0015 (Zain Naboulsi)
• VS 2010 Quick Hit: Generate from Usage (Dariusz Parys)
• LINQ to SQL with Stored Procedures (Arian T. Kulp)
• MP3 player for Windows 7 (Shoban Kumar)

Web Development

• WCF and JQuery Using JSON (Chris Love)
• Daily Dose – Will HTML5 Kill Flash? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• ASP.NET: ListBox Tooltip (Deborah Kurata)
• 50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques (Smashing Magazine)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Programmer Tip: Consider Taking A Couple Of Happy Hours Each Day Of Your Life. (Rajiv Popat)
• Gherkin style specification testing in .NET (Ryan Lanciaux)
• Attitude of the development team to the product (Brian Marick)
• Saving Time by Mindmapping (Chance Brown)
• Are we functional? (Eric Brechner)
• Thoughts On TDD (A Case Study With Ruby And RSpec) (Alan Skorkin)
• Test Tool Checklists – TMAP NEXT DOWNLOADS (Clemens Reijnen)

Silverlight / WPF

• New York Times Silverlight Kit Updated (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Saving Files Locally in Silverlight (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight TV Episode 5: Using Metadata with MEF (John Papa)
• ARCast.TV – Enabling Architects with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Episode 99- PowerScripting Podcast – Shannon Ma on NetPoint (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Herding Code 71: James Avery and Rob Conery on NoSQL and a bunch of other stuff (Jon Galloway)
• Major Nelson Show 349: BioShock 2, NFS: Shift and Windows Home Server (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• Leveraging Twitter to Promote User Groups (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Life With My Geek: Man Cave Has Jumped Shark (Elle Starr)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Question – How to Convert Hex to Decimal (Pinal Dave)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #529 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2010 01.19 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for January 31, 2010 — #790 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Post… 1/24/2010 through 1/31/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Weekly Link Post 130 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/1/2010 (Pete Brown)
• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Insight Series (Joel Oleson)
• Links (1/31/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s "Hard Code" (Best Practices)