Dew Drop – October 7, 2010

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Top Links

• Introducing NuPack Package Management for .NET – Another piece of the Web Stack (Scott Hanselman)
• Mono 2.8 is out (Miguel de Icaza)
• Announcing NuPack, ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta, and WebMatrix Beta 2 (Scott Guthrie)
• POCO Results for MVC Actions (Javier G. Lozano)
• Blendable MVVM ViewModelLocator using MEF (Jan Brandsma)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Sequence Equality (Richard Carr)
• The benefits of a plugins based system: RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• View files on GitHub from Visual Studio (Joshua Flanagan)
• Understanding the Autos Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• HowTo: Logging with Log4Net (Code Inside Team)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (VIII) – Signing In + RavenDB Testing (Rob Ashton)
• Events and Multi-threaded Applications (Eric Quist)
• New book on NHibernate (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Icon support for custom Windows Workflow activities (Rory Primrose)
• Code Shot – hCard Template (James R. Eggers)
• Under the ORM Hood: Revealing the SQL (Nick Harrison)

 

Web Development

• Unobtrusive Ajax in ASP.NET MVC 3 and Unobtrusive Client Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3 and ASP.NET MVC 3 Service Location, Part 5: IDependencyResolver and Part 6: Model Validation and Part 7: Model Metadata and Part 8: Value Providers and Part 9: Model Binders and Part 10: Controller Activator and Part 11: View Page Activator (Brad Wilson)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta Released and Introducing NuPack Package Manager (Phil Haack)
• The Evolution of Package Management for .NET (Rob Reynolds)
• Which ASP.NET MVC view engine do you prefer? and ASP.NET MVC3 Beta 1 (Dane Morgridge)
• Daily Dose – W3C Official: Don’t Use HTML5 Yet (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Taking steps in the right direction: The learning path from WebMatrix/Razor to Visual Studio/ASP.NET (Rachel Appel)
• A third option for using jQuery templates and Announcing Bootstrap – a simple JS library for loading scripts (Scott Koon)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Special Case (Giorgio Sironi)
• Microsoft announces WebMatrix Beta 2 (Lawrence Moroney)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article:Using Coding Katas, BDD and VS2010 Project Templates: Part 3 (Jamie Phillips)
• Selling Scrum to Your Manager? (Mark Levison)
• A Simple Alternative to “If..” AKA Strategy Pattern Envy (Bobby Johnson)
• You’re a Bad Manager. Embrace It. (Jared Richardson)
• Bad Programmer, Bad Process Or Bad Education (Rob Diana)
• Why Hard Interviews are Good (John Sonmez)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• databinding BingMaps Control Wp7 MVVM (Baba)
• Accessing the ViewModel Inside a DataTemplate in Silverlight (Brendan Enrick)
• WP7 Code: Reverse GeoCoding with the Bing Maps Service (Dragos Manolescu)
• S-OOB + W7 = ? (Rudi Grobler)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Camps TV #7 – WebMatrix Beta 2 Launches Today! and Web Camps TV #8 – NuPack with Phil Haack (James Senior)
• Silverlight TV 48: Creating Rich Interactive Prototypes with Sketchflow – Part 1 (John Papa)
• tickWell for Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Updating AJAX Patterns How-Do-I Videos. and To Podcast of Not ? You tell me. (Joe Stagner)
• jQuery Podcast 36 – Bocoup (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• RECAP: Let’s Play TDD, Episodes 21-30 (James Shore)
• endpoint.tv – AppFabric Caching vs. IBM eXtreme Scale benchmark (Ron Jacobs)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing Office Hours and Call for Speakers – SQL Saturday DC and SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Best Job in the Company… (Tim Sneath)
• My Team in Developer Guidance at Microsoft (Pete Brown)
• A video tour of Microsoft’s ultra-modern Oslo office (Thomas Kohnstamm)

 

Database

• AutoGenerate Numeric ID’s in SQL Server with No Sequence (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Connection Strings: Database Mirroring Failover Partner Setup & Sample Backup/Restore Preparation Script (Hugo Shebbeare)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Quiz – The View, The Table and The Clustered Index Confusion (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS runs in BIDS but not with SQL Agent (Ted Krueger)
• Programmatic detection of configuration options (Paul S. Randal)

 

Miscellaneous

• Using Sticky Notes in Windows 7 (Senthil Kumar)
• So I Got Promoted, Now What? Get To Know Your Peers (Joe Webb)
• Logitech Revue with Google TV Available This Month for $299 (Blake Robinson)
• Evolving Reading Interests, Part Two (Davy Brion)
• Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts Implementation in Office 2010 (Hima)
• Marketers vs. Developers the Email Templating Problem (Nick Berardi)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Buying a Home: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99. Use code DDBHM (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #702 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 6, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for October 06, 2010 — #961 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action by Wictor Wilen