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Free eBook – Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples

Granville Barnett has just announced that his free eBook, Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples, has been updated and is now available for free download here.

Read Granville’s post about the release for more details. The book is a fantastic resource, and it is awesome that he has made it available to the developer community at no cost. Happy holidays!

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Dew Drop – July 29, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

Some Finalizer Pitfalls and Not All Bytes Are Exactly 8 Bits (Oren Eini)
Finalizer vs. Application: A Race Condition From Hell and Guaranteed, Finalization Order Is Not (Sasha Goldshtein)
CBR/CBZ Comics in C# (thund3rstruck)
ReSharper 4.0 Lambda Refactoring (David Starr)
Countdown to F# CTP (Chris Smith)
There’s Usually an Easier Way (Mike Hadlow)
Extended DSL Model Explorer – Release v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Migratory Compromises (Dave Laribee)
The Poetry of Testing and Prevention v. Cure (Part 3) (James Whittaker)
Three Qualities That Every Piece of Code Should Have (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Going Full Circle with TDD (Kyle Baley)
.NET Rocks! – Christian Weyer on the Internet Service Bus (MS Downloads)
Five Questions with Kyle Larsen (Michael Hunter)
Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History (David Starr)
SOA Patterns Chapter 2 for Free Download (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Silverlight / WPF

WPF Futures Is Out! (Vladimir Milev)
Using CSLA Light, Part 1 and Part 2 (Rocky Lhotka)
Expression Blend Training Resources (Frank La Vigne)
WPF Photo Print (.NET 3.5 SP1) (Chris Cavanagh)
Behold! Silverlight Streaming! (John Holliday)

Web Development

Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control Released (John O’Brien)
How to Encrypt Query String Parameters in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
ASP.NET MVC Tip #26 – Create a Lightweight Control View Engine (Stephen Walther)

Database

Quick Tip: Generate Change Script for SQL Modifications (Ryan Lanciaux)
SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Now Available (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
SQL Server Data Services (Aghy)
SQL Server – Simple Example of Recursive CTE – Part 2 – MAXRECURSION – Prevent CTE Infinite Loop (Pinal Dave)
SSDS Demo Code Now on CodePlex (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

SharePoint Magazine Articles for July (Arno Nel)
Question to SharePoint Developers (Gunnar Peipman)

PowerShell

DevHawk’s Slightly Useful PowerShell Configuration and Some PowerShell Scripts (Harry Pierson)

Events / Community

Events This Week – July 28th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Miscellaneous

Announcing the Summer of Arcade and Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 Releases This Week (Larry Hryb)
.NET Rocks! – Scott Guthrie on MIX and Matthew Manela on the MSDN Code Gallery (MS Downloads)
Cuil Shows Us How Not to Launch a Search Engine (Rafe Needleman)
Nerd Test Results (Frank La Vigne) – My results are on my About Me page.
Academics to Get a Glimpse of Microsoft’s Sphere (Ina Fried)
Windows Live Wave 3: New Photo Feed Service – Windows Live FrameIt (Chris)
IE8 and Reliability (Andy Zeigler)
Tigerpress – A Free WordPress Theme (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2 (PhotoshopNews.com)
The Mojave Experiment (Sunshine)
Must-Have Software and Tools – July 2008 Edition (Tim Boland)

Link-O-Rama

Weekly Links #11 (Grant Palin)
Clearing a Blog Backlog (G. Andrew Duthie)
Interesting Finds: 2008.07.29 (gOODiDEA)
Silverlight News for July 29, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
Everyman Links for July 28, 2008 (Dave Burke)
Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2008 — #337 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #146 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #258 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Lessons Learned in Software Testing: Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord: Books

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Dew Drop – July 28, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

Data Structures and Algorithms Book (Granville Barnett)
CSLA .NET 3.5.1 RC0 Available (Rocky Lhotka)
Relational-Object-XML-Object with LINQ to SQL & LINQ to XML (Dinesh Kulkarni)
Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 5 (Justin Etheredge)
More Fun with ‘yield return’ (Mike Hadlow)

Design / Methodology

SCRUM — As Explained by Ken Schwaber (Manish Agrawal)
The Data Disconnect (Justin Etheredge)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC: Avoiding Tag Soup (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, More Databinding Help with the DataView (Phani Raj)

Database

Different Foreign Keys for Different Tables (Kenneth Downs)
Simple Example of Recursive CTE (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

A New Search Engine Appears: Will You Use It? (Robert Scoble) – No.
Understanding the Hardware (Jeff Atwood)

Link-O-Rama

New and Notable 259 (Sam Gentile)
Interesting Finds: July 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2008 — #336 (Dave Campbell)
Silverlight News for July 28, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
Weekly Link Post 52 (Rhonda Tipton)
Links (7/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #145 (Chris Alcock)
Link Listing – July 27, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) (Pragmatic Programmers): Michael Nygard: Books

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