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Dew Drop – April 12, 2008

Miscellaneous

Donating $5,000 to .NET Open Source (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day
Programmers – Start ’em Young? (Joe Stagner)
Small Software – Big Impact (Jesse Liberty)
Schools of Software Development (Martin Fowler)
Everything I Know About Code Reviews I Learnt From Star Wars (and JCooney) (Leon Bambrick)
CHAPTER 3: Communicating and Collaborating (Dan Bunea) – Agile Mini Book

Blogging

bTweets (Twitter) and bTittleTattle (FriendFeed) Apps (sobees)
Welcome to the New TRT (Jay Kimble)
EasyPayPal WordPress Plugin Release v3.2 (CodePlex)
Blogging Extension for Graffiti (Keyvan Nayyeri)
GroupTweet Enhances Twitter (Mike Gunderloy)

Web Development

Must Have Tool for ASP.NET Developer (adventurer)
Silverlight Gems (Jesse Liberty)
Most Useful 50 CSS Tips and Tools for Webmasters (Emma Alvarez)

.NET

Printing with WPF (Rob Relyea)
Unity Community Contributions and Interception (Matthew Podwysocki)
LINQ with DataReaders (devprime)
A .NET Cryptography Primer, Part Two (Will)
SubSonic 2.1 Beta 3 Release (CodePlex)
LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client – Part 1: Building the Middle Tier (Beth Massi)
IUpdatable & ADO.NET Data Services Framework (Pratik Patel)
Writing Your First WCF Client (Sahil Malik)

Events/Community

VSLive Orlando Coming Soon! (Rocky Lhotka)
Where You Can Find Me This Spring (Jeffrey Palermo)
Thank You North Carolina (Brad Abrams)

Visual Studio

Simpler Code Add-In for Visual Studio 2008 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
PowerCommands 1.1 Released (vsxteam)
Spec# for Visual Studio 2005 v1.0.20411 (MS Research)
p&p – Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Alpha Release (CodePlex)

PowerShell

The SQL Server PowerShell Provider (Joel Bennett)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 11, 2008 and Interesting Finds: April 12, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-04-11) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for April 11, 2008 – #250 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for April 11, 2008 and LINKBLOG for April 12, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
New and Notable 233 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Implementation Patterns (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Kent Beck: Books

Technorati: daily links, .net development, agile development, powershell, linq, asp.net, unity, subsonic

Philly.NET Code Camp 2008.2 – Call For Speakers

(via email from Bill Wolff)

May 17

Code Camp 2008.2

Saturday
Fort Washington, PA

philly.net Partners with DeVry for Expanded Code Camps

Our second major event at DeVry University in Fort Washington will happen on May 17, 2008 from 8:30-5:00 and will feature 8 tracks and 40 sessions.

Call for Speakers and Sponsors

We are looking for 40 good speakers. Share your .NET, SQL, SharePoint, BizTalk, or Visual Studio knowledge with your peers. We are always looking for new talent. Contact Bill Wolff or Steve Andrews for details.

Andy Schwam developed a new sponsorship program. There are three levels for Code Camp contributors. You can also reserve future monthly meetings. Please contact Andy for details.

Registration opens April 23 at the monthly meeting

Check the Philly.NET web site soon for speaker sessions and other details.

Technorati: msdn, .net users groups, code camps, microsoft, visual studio, .net framework

Dew Drop – April 9, 2008

Events/Community

Tips on Starting a User Group (Frank La Vigne)
BDD: Coming to a Theater Near You? (Tonight!) (Brian Donahue)

Silverlight/Web Development

AJAX vs. Silverlight and .NET (Nikhil Kothari)
Json.NET 2.0 Beta 3 – Turkey Test Approved (James Newton-King)

.NET

Data Binding an Enum with Descriptions (Scott Dorman)
A .NET Cryptography Primer, Part One (Will)
Book Review: GDI+ Custom Controls – PACKT Publishing (Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das))

Design/Methodology

Following Principles (K. Scott Allen) – Link of the Day
Make the Most of Your Test Coverage Data (Patrick Smacchia)

Blogging

Find New People to Follow on Twitter with Twubble (Brad Linder)
WordPress 2.5 Released, and All Eyes Turn to 2.6 (Kristin Shoemaker)

Miscellaneous

Drop Dead Sexy Time Tracking with Klok (Scott Blitstein)
Alternatives to the Home Office (Celine Roque)
Rediscovering Arcade Nostalgia (Jeff Atwood) – I love this stuff. I have yet to build my own MAME machine, but I have an external HDD filled with arcade and classic console emulators.
Create PDFs via Code with Adobe Share API (Raymond Yee)
Packing Light For Travel with Power and Geek Style (Scott Hanselman) – Kindle is nice, but I love the PDF support in the Sony Reader.
The Case Against Overtime (Russell Ball)

Link Collections

Links Today (2008-04-08) (Matt Hinze)
Interesting Finds: April 8, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Weekly SOA Crumbs #13: The Google Application Platform Push (Dilip Krishnan)
Silverlight Cream for April 9, 2008 – #247 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for April 8, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (4/8/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Bits for April 8, 2008 (Dave Burke)
The Morning Brew #69 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day (Ok, it’s a DVD today…)

Zappa Plays Zappa (Fan Pak): Zappa Plays Zappa: Movies & TV

Technorati: daily links, .net development, json.net, silverlight, ajax, dweezil zappa, zappa plays zappa, bdd