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Daily Bits – January 24, 2008

Interviewing

Interviewing Thread on altdotnet (Jeremy D. Miller)
Getting the Interview Phone Screen Right (Jeff Atwood)

Misc

If Agile Is About Conversations, Who’s Listening? (Tim Jarrett)
Microsoft to Release Windows Vista SP1 on February 15th? (Steven Bink)
Code Reviews (Phil Denoncourt)
40 Reasons Why Software Projects Die (Antipatterns)
Nurturing Incubations (S. (Soma) Somasegar)
Assumption is the mother of all ________ (Eric Wise)
Microsoft Memo: Windows 7 and Windows Live to be Even More Tightly Joined at the Hip (Mary Jo Foley)
The Weekly Source Code 13 – Fibonacci Edition (Scott Hanselman)
MSDN Code Gallery is Live (Eileen Rumwell)

.NET

7 New Video Tutorials on WindowsClient.NET
Mutable and Immutable Anonymous Types in VB (Julia Lerman)
Where Is C# Heading? (Milan Negovan)
Socket Programming in C# (Joydip Kanjilal)
Proetus – .NET Object Persistence Library v1.0.0.0 for .NET 3.5 (CodePlex)
LINQ to SQL in Under 15 Minutes (Jay Kimble)
Using the C# ?? Operator (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

OpenID Implementation in C# and ASP.NET (Mads Kristensen)
HTML 5 Thoughts (Nikhil Kothari)

Visual Studio

VS2008 Includes Shiny New Images to Use in Our Apps (Julia Lerman)
Sample Setup for Visual Studio 2008 for F# Unit Testing with NUnit (Nate Hoellein)
WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: What’s New for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5 (Public Sector DPE Team)

WPF

A New Software Architecture Pattern: M-V-poo (Dr. WPF)
WPF Coming into the Mainstream with Excellent Component Vendor Support (Brad Abrams)

Other Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: January 23, 2008 (Jason Haley)
9 Links Today (2008-01-23) (Matt Hinze)
Our Daily Link (2008-01-23) (Trevor Green)
LINKBLOG for January 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
links for 2008-01-24 (Sam Buchanan)
The Morning Brew #17 (Chris Alcock)
Link Listing – January 23, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Books: David Flanagan

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Daily Bits – January 23, 2008

Shake it off and move ahead.

Misc

Études for Excellence (James Shore)
Defensive Coding Best Practice (Derik Whittaker)
What to Do If You’re Laid Off in 2008 Recession (Robert Scoble)
KidsCodeZone.com – Let’s Get This Party Started! (Rick Ross)
Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.6.0.4 Production (CodePlex)

Agile

Choosing an Agile Process – Part 6: Books and Reading (Ade Miller)
How Agile Are You? (Take This 42 Point Test) (Kelly Waters)

Visual Studio

Issue: Migrating Web Application Projects Between VS 2005 and VS 2008 (Rick Strahl)
Some Essential Visual Studio Tools (Jim Bogard)

WPF

Why So Few WPF/XAML Grid Controls? (Rocky Lhotka)
Mindscape Ships the WPF Property Grid (JD Trask)
Minority Report-Like Interaction in WPF (Simone Chiaretta)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC and User Group Fun (K. Scott Allen)
Extending the GridView to Include Sort Arrows (Scott Mitchell)

Other Link Blogs

New and Notable 218 (Sam Gentile)
Interesting Finds: January 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
7 Links Today (2008-01-22) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for January 22, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
links for 2008-01-23 (Sam Buchanan)
The Morning Brew #16 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code: Books: Allen Holub

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Daily Bits – January 22, 2008

Web Development

Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Free Utility: Web.Config Editor (Ahmed Mohammed AL-Sayed)
Compatibility and IE8 (Chris Wilson)
ASP.NET Personal Web Site Starter Kit – Ajax Enabled with .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008 (Brad Abrams)

WPF

New in WPF 3.5: 2. Support for IDataErrorInfo (Josh Twist)
Intellisense-Like Method Selection Pop-Up Windows (WPF) (Igor Moochnick)

Blogging

MyBlogLog API Launches (John Musser)
WordPress.com Users Now Get 3gb of Online Storage (Brad Linder)
Pownce Goes Live (Christina Warren)

Personal Improvement / Productivity

Seven Things I Want to Do Differently in 2008 (Russell Ball)
Successful Development Environment (<unknown name>)
50 Tips, Tweaks and Hacks to Make the Most of Google Calendar (Christian Laun) (via Paul Thurrott)

Misc

Teaching My Daughter to Code (Michael Kölling)
Dealing with Hierarchical Structures in Databases (Oren Eini)
The Essential Agile Reading List (thekua.com)
MSDN Subscriber Downloads Is Changing (‘Subscriptions Blogger 2’ – How did your parents come up with that name??)
Reinventing the Clipboard (Jeff Atwood)

.NET

New* .NET 3.5 Feature: AddIn Framework (Part 1 of 3) (Shafqat Ahmed)
Book Review: C# 3.0 Design Patterns (O’Reilly) (Peter Bromberg)

Other Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: January 21, 2008 (Jason Haley)
New and Notable 217 (Sam Gentile) Keep ’em coming as often as you are able, Sam.
2 Links Today (2008-01-21) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for January 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
links for 2008-01-22 (Sam Buchanan)
Link Listing – January 21, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #15 (Chris Alcock)
Weekly Link Post 25 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

C# 3.0 Design Patterns: Books: Judith Bishop

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