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Daily Bits – January 15, 2008

Halfway through the first month of the new year already. How’s everyone doing on their resolutions?

Why Not Remote Developers?

Philly.NET Code Camp 2008.1: What an Awesome Day!!! (via Jason Haley)

How to Writer a Killer “How To” Article in 7 Easy Steps (via Jason Haley)

Cross Browser Transparency with .PNG (via dzone)

Attach to ASP.NET Process with One Keyboard Shortcut (via DotNetKicks)

Free Professional Diff Tool from SourceGear (via DotNetKicks)

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Certification Exams

Windows Home Server Unsupported Feature – Backup Duplication

13 Comparisons Between Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services

SimCity Source Code Released to the Wild! Let the Ports Begin… (via GameDev.Net)

I’m Getting Errors in the Visual Studio Designer Using a Custom Attached Property, Help!

Ajax Data Controls 1.0 Released on CodePlex

Ajax Patterns, the C# 3.0 Way (via dzone)

The Monster List of Freelancing Job Sites (via dzone)

8 Things You Can Do to Get Work Through LinkedIn (via dzone)

Managing Client Expectations

The Oversimlified Specification Anti-Pattern

Top 10 MSDN & TechNet Blogs

ASP.NET Multiple File Uploader

Breakthrough Promises 40-Hour Laptop Batteries (via WinBeta)

Windows Home Server Will Not Be Made Available to MSDN Subscribers (via WinBeta)

 

Book of the Day – Prerelease Edition

 

Daily Bits – January 14, 2008

Trends in Programming Languages (via dzone)

52 Great Reasons to Fail at Software

Don’t Fear the LINQ Query… It’s Often a Variation of a foreach Loop

Microsoft Building New UI Framework (via WinBeta)

Managed Extensibility and Add-In Framework (via Matt Hinze)

Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview (Dec 2007) – ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight Add-On (MS Download)

Change the World or Go Home: Why I Love Working at Microsoft (via Jason Haley)

.NET Remoting Interview Questions (via Jason Haley)

Advanced WCF Code Camp Slides and Code (Philly Code Camp)

Whatever Happened to Code Reviews? (via Arjan’s World)

Slides From Philly .NET Code Camp (Windsor)

.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace Poster Updated

Happy Popfly Year!

Build Your Own CAB: Extensible Pub/Sub Event Aggregator with Generics

Immutable Types: Understand Their Benefits and Use Them

Facebook.NET Update

 

Book of the Day

 

Daily Bits – January 11, 2008

Sharing Types Between the Client and Server in WCF

AutoMockingContainer and ASP.NET MVC: Round 1

Competition vs. Innovation at Microsoft

Cool Video of TeamSpec and TeamLook Now Available

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Best Of

Best Type-Safe Session State Pattern. Evar. (via DotNetKicks)

Count the Interfaces…

SaphireSteel Releases New Ruby on Rails IDE Based on VS 2008 Shell

Is Rooting for Visual Basic Like Rooting for the Red Sox?

.NET Rocks! Podcast: Ken Levy on Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX)

Using Reflector to Search Through Code and Resolve .NET Issues (via Steve Pietrek)

Did You Know That Connection String Builders Will Parse Connection Strings, Not Just Create Them? (via Steve Pietrek)

Apply the New Vista APIs to Sidebar Gadgets, Part 2

Developer Grades: Where Do You Fall In? (via dzone)

CodeMash Hanselman IIS Talk (via DotNetSlackers)

Web Development Toolbelt (via dzone)

.NET Framework Goes Multicore (via dzone)

Video “Framework Engineering: Architecting, Designing, and Developing Reusable Libraries” Posted

CodeMash 2007 Wrapup – What Are You Working On?

The Enduring Art of Computer Programming

 

Book of the Day