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Dew Drop – January 7, 2010

Got the year right in today’s title. Thanks to Jason for the nudge… 🙂

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Top Links

How to meet other craftsmen (Sebastian Hermida)

The source code IS (still) the executable [Updated CSI, a C# interpreter (with source and tests) for .NET 4] (David Anson)

Silverlight XAML Viewer with info callouts and links to MSDN docs (Bob Bartholomay)

.NET / Visual Studio

More LINQ with System.Interactive – Functional fun and taming side-effects (Bart de Smet)

Much Ado About Monads – Reader Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

Building A Color Picker Using ASP.NET MVC And jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

2009 highlights and plans for 2010 – part 3 (Simon Brown)

Agile Tenet #8 – Sustainable Pace (Julie Stickler)

Review of "Agile Coaching" by PragProg press (Jason Meridth)

Writing Internal DSL’s in MSDN (Jeremy D. Miller)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4.0 (Carl Franklin)

Community / Events

Announcing PowerShellGroup.org – A home for PowerShell User Groups (Joel Bennett)

Microsoft CES 2010 Keynote and CES 2010 Xbox news (Larry Hyrb)

Miscellaneous

wmic vs WMI Powershell cmdlets (Kapil Mathur)

Television of the future isn’t just on your TV (Ted Malone)

Create a System Restore Point in 1-click with Quick Restore Maker (The Windows Club)

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The Morning Brew #512 (Chris Alcock)

Silverlight Cream for January 06, 2010 — #770 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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Dew Drop – January 6, 2010

Playing catch-up after outage…

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Top Links

Microsoft Confirms Xbox Natal To Ship "Holiday 2010" (Kat Hannaford)
NBDN Remote Pilot/Beta – February 8-12 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
TDD: 4 questions that will help you create the simplest thing that could possibly work (Roy Osherove)
Silverlight HVP Proof Of Concept Released! (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

jQuery and ASP.NET UpdatePanel (Dave M. Bush)
Bob Dylan Meets HTML5 (Molly E. Holzschlag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How to effectively define a sufficient set of BDD scenarios/Acceptance tests? (Gojko Adzic)
Event Driven Architecture: Publishing Events using an IOC container (Jarod Ferguson)
3 Ways to Know Something (JD Meier)
How Dovetail uses StructureMap with NHibernate (Jeremy D. Miller)
Architecture Journal 22: Taking BI Beyond the Business Analyst (Mike Walker)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms (Fredrik Normen)
Silverlight and styles (Gabriel N. Schenker)
Silverlight 4 OOB: Please remove the My-Folders restriction. It doesn’t work anyways. (Ingo Rammer)
The ultimate hack for Silverlight in Blend (Josh Smith)
Fonts and Silverlight (Koen Zwikstra)
iMeta Agility & Silverlight (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

SQL Azure Lessons Learned: Telerik (Ben Riga)
Mike Ziock: Microsoft Online Services Operations (Charles Torre)
ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Framework Fundamentals and Practices and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: ASP.NET MVC and AJAX and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Rendering Markup and Working with Data and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Routing and Controllers (Emily Gibson)
The Access Show: Access Developer contest – win an Xbox 360, Zune, or Windows 7 (Tina Wood)

Community / Events

2009 highlights and plans for 2010 – part 2 (Simon Brown)
Blend and design-focused MIX10 Open Call Entries (Adam Kinney)

Database

MERGE and OUTPUT – the swiss army knife of T-SQL (Jamie Thomson)
How to obtain RecordCount (or Number of cases) from a DMX query (Steve Simon)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Content Type Publishing Setup (Charles Chen)
Sharepoint and MbUnit (Andrew Stopford)
SharePoint Visual Studio 2010 extensions on CodePlex SPVSX (Paul Andrew)
Editing .cmp files to fix lookup field issues (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

Leveraging WMI to Monitor Your Enterprise (Mike Ceranski)
Video Review: Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Card for Digital Cameras and Your Life’s Workflow (Scott Hanselman)
Why do big companies suck? (Scott Berkun)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #511 (Chris Alcock)
Tech Tweets for 6-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer)

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Dew Drop – January 2, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

Managing Agile (Diana Larsen)
Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 5 (Matthew Podwysocki)
Reading: Designing for the Social Web (Nikhil Kothari)
DI/IOCs (Sacha Barber)

.NET / Visual Studio

NH Prof Is in Public Beta (Oren Eini)
Writing a Simple Windows Live Writer Plugin (Julian M. Bucknall)
Creating T-SQL Static Code Analysis Rules (Gert Drapers)
Building Domain Specific Languages in C# (Neal Ford)
Baby Steps in Microsoft Robotics Studio (Leon Bambrick)
.NET Technical Forecast 2009 (Brian Noyes)
LINQ Query Syntax C# vs. VB vs. SQL (Paul Litwin via Frank La Vigne)
10-4 on Channel9 (Joel Reyes) – Episode 3 is up!

Web Development

ASP.NET 4.0 WebForms Podcast Is Now Up (Scott Galloway)
Sueetie Wiki Now Ready for Pickup: Some Assembly Required (Dave Burke)
An Introduction to jQuery, Part 1 (Rick Strahl)
SYTYAWD #2 Are You Scared of JavaScript (Jeff McWherter)
Live Framework SDK – Having a Single MeshObject (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight

Silverlight 2 – Drag and Drop Part 1 of 2 (Corey Miller)
Hosting Silverlight Content on a CDN (Tim Heuer)

.NET Community / Events

ALT.NET Seattle 2009 Is Happening (Glenn Block)
Party with Palermo: Alt.Net/MVP Summit Edition (Save the Date) (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

SQL Server 2008-2005 – Find Longest Running Query – T-SQL (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Lessons Learned in 2008 (J.D. Meier)
Hello, 2009 (John Lam)
Windows 7 Beta 1 Performance – How Does the OS Compare to Vista and XP? (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
Wetware Refactorings (Jeff Moser) – Link of the Day
2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited (Ted Neward)
Ballmer’s CES Keynote Promises to Be a Snoozer (Non-Announcements Revealed!) (Erick Schonfeld)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #256 (Chris Alcock)
Discoveries This Week 01/02/2008 (Rick Minerich)
LINKBLOG for January 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Week Episode 5 (Denis Gobo)
CloudNews for January 2nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed: Brennon Williams: Books

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