Dew Drop – Experimental Edition – December 7, 2009

I’m toying with a new format for the new year. I want to continue delivering a good quantity of links but also hand pick a few each day as “Top Links”, providing a summary for each of them. Let me know your thoughts and suggestions. Thanks! – Alvin

Jump to: Top Links | Tips & Tricks | New Releases | Code to Read | Software Craftsmanship | Podcasts, Videos & Events | Microsoft Software | Other Platforms | Gadgets & Games | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

• Resharper is amazing, take N (Oren Eini) – Oren illustrates ReSharper 5.0’s integration with MS Symbol Server & Source Server. This enables easy debugging into the .NET Framework.
• More On The Death of If-Else (K. Scott Allen) – Inspired by a recent post by Aaron Feng, Scott checks out some alternatives to the If-Else pattern in C#.
• Lessons in Software from Eric Brechner (J.D. Meier) – “I.M. Wright” discusses important traits of good software developers.
• FitNesse book now free online (Gojko Adzic) – Get the 2nd edition of the eBook on FitNesse, a .NET software acceptance testing tool.
• The Monthly Code Quality Report (Mike Hadlow) – Mike shares the metrics he tracks (and his CQL query) with NDepend.
• Continuous education, Hanselminutes show #187 (Peter Eysermans) – Peter shares his thoughts about software tester James Bach’s recent appearance on Hanselminutes.
• Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 – some notes on the "why" (Chris O’Brien) – The second part of Chris’ look at Managed Metadata and Enterprise Content Management enhancements in SharePoint 2010.

 

Tips & Tricks

• How to get access to WPF’s internal Direct3D guts (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Are you ready to learn F#? Concepts to be familiar with before learning the F# language (Bart Czernicki)
• Serialization Generics (Steve Andrews)
• Asynchronous messages in F# and AutoCAD (Kean Walmsley)
• Authenticated web services calls with Asp.Net MVC (Chris Brandsma)
• Resetting Focus After Selecting a Date with the JQuery UI DateSelector (Chris Love)
• Adding a Twitter Profile Widget in BlogEngine.NET and One-Click Page Creation with ScrewTurn Wiki (Dave Burke)
• Easy HTML Templating with JQuery (Sara J. Chipps)
• Create an ASP.NET TextBox Watermark Effect using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Blend 3 Tip: Filter resources by selected element (Rudi Grobler)
• Exporting a SQL Server table as CSV (Jeremy Jarrell)

 

New Releases

• Introducing the new Bing Maps beta (Greg Schechter)
• Document Toolkit 1.1.0.4 (Koen Zwikstra)

 

Code to Read

• D3: Rides Again – Now on VS2010 Beta 2 (Dan Simmons)
• BugCamSmash Dissected part 2 – Make the Bugs Crawl and BugCamSmash Dissected part 3 – Give the Bugs Brains (Adam Kinney)

 

Software Craftsmanship

• nunit to mstest for CSLA .NET 4 (Rockford Lhotka)
• What is the Definition of Elegant Code? (Christopher Diggins)
• Unit Testing An NHibernate Application and Testing CRUD Operations With NHibernate (Davy Brion)
• Our obsession with efficiency – Dan North (Mark Needham)
• Do you Encode your interface ? (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Leadership Tip: Start Noticing And Appreciating Your Silent Heroes. (Rajiv Popat)
• Bug Triage (Daniel Moth)

 

Podcasts, Videos & Events

• Windows Weekly 133: A Fish Called Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, on Cloud Architecture Patterns (Bob Familiar)
• Major Nelson Show 342: Video Game Awards, Dark Void and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 94 – PowerScripting Podcast – Carter Shanklin from VMware on PowerCLI and Onyx (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast #3: Silverlight is Real (David Starr)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Dr Jeff Norris, NASA (Nic Fillingham)
• My Presentations in Europe (December 2009) (Scott Guthrie)
• Pluralsight On-Demand (Mark Nijhof)

 

Microsoft Software

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Startup Failures (Rick Strahl)
• F# on the Xbox 360 (Joh)
• SQL SERVER – White Papers – Consolidation Guidance for SQL Server – Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server – White Paper – An Introduction to Fast Track Data Warehouse Architectures by Erik Veerman (Pinal Dave)
• Add javascript files once to a page – SharePoint Sandbox Solutions (Nick Swan)
• Windows Azure – Scaling Out vs. Scaling Up (Jason Haley)
• Reader Challenge – Fault Handlers in C# (Bart de Smet)
• Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Event-based and Error-Handling INavigationContentLoaders (David Poll)

 

Other Platforms

• Don’t Make Me Think – A User Centric Perspective on Google Apps (Ben Kepes)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/7 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Distributed Programming with Ruby Book Review (Mike Riley)

 

Gadgets, Tools & Games

• Flickr Drive Integrates Flickr into Windows Explorer (Sarah Perez)
• Google Officially Launching Chrome Extensions Next Week (MG Siegler)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 6, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 05, 2009 — #749 and Silverlight Cream for December 06, 2009 — #750 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for December 6, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #492 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #100 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.12.01 ~ 12.07 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #82 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/7/2009 (Pete Brown)
• A Feed You Should Read #14 – WynAspe, Silverlight Cream (Greg Duncan)
• Interesting Post… 11/30/2009 through 12/6/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links (12/6/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 122 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/06/2009 (Rick Minerich)

 

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