functional programming – Page 12 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – December 25, 2009

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Top Links

Need test/sample/demo data that’s safe for public (and/or client) consumption? Then GenerateData.com! (Greg Duncan) – Great find…

C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 13 of 13 (Charles Torre) – A great series of videos comes to an end. If you haven’t watched any of them, and you’re interested in functional programming, go back and start at chapter 1.

.NET / Visual Studio

Thoughts on EF vs NHibernate (Rob Conery)

What can EF 4.0 do that NHibernate can’t? and Responding to how EF is better NH commentary… (Oren Eini)

More LINQ with System.Interactive – Getting Started and Reader Challenge – Fault Handlers in C# (Bart de Smet)

If (Successful) { throw new Exception(); } (Brian Lagunas)

Heard from someone about the just released VS2010 B2 VM’s? Would like to get them but hate downloading them via the web site? Brian Keller has a download solution for you (and 7 Hands-on Labs too!) (Greg Duncan)

LINQ to SQL and missing Many to Many EntityRefs (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

corMVC initial release and qooxdoo reaches 1.0 (Michael Kimsal)

Trace.Writing in your web applications (Coding4Fun)

A Popup Insert control for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

jQuery hoverImage plugin (Wesley Bakker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Tenet #5 – Motivated Individuals (Julie Stickler)

Customer Connected Engineering at patterns & practices (JD Meier)

Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: My first attempt (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Information for Silverlight HVP Developers… (Jesse Liberty)

Custom Content Loaders in Silverlight 4.0 (David Hill)

Day #24: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 2 of 3) (Jeff Blankenburg)

Novell and Microsoft cut out the GPL cancer from open-source Silverlight (Sebastian Anthony)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield: Silverlight Rock Star! (Carl Franklin)

Holiday Special – The office, Typemock-style (Gil Zilberfeld)

Community / Events

What is Community? (Steve Andrews)

Database

SQL SERVER – CDC and TRUNCATE – Cannot truncate table because it is published for replication or enabled for Change Data Capture (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Being a writer, and having an editor. A Short Rant. (Jesse Liberty)

Cygwin 1.7 Adds Windows 7 Support and Many Improvements (Kevin Purdy)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for December 24, 2009 — #762 and Silverlight Cream for December 25, 2009 — #763 (Dave Campbell)

MVVM LinksInfo (Lester Lobo)

WWD’s Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2009 (Simon Mackie)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action

Technorati Tags: javascript,functional programming,reactive framework,sql server,silverlight,moonlight,monodevelop,cygwin,nhibernate,entity framework

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Dew Droplet – July 1-3, 2009

I’m catching up a bit after the birth of our third daughter, Rubina Mae Ashcraft, on Tuesday afternoon. My sincere thanks to everyone who sent their congratulations on Twitter and Facebook. Apologies to the many great blog posts that have not been included.

Congrats to all the new and renewed Microsoft MVPs this week too!

Silverlight / WPF

How to Create Reflection Effect on Images Using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask in WPF (Anum Lodhi)
WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI. (Brian Lagunas)
Silverlight Coding Contest (Dino Esposito)
Handling Events within Silverlight Control Templates – AutoCompleteBox Example (Dan Wahlin)
Choosing Colors to Complement Your User Interface with Expression Design and Experimenting with User Interface Colors with Expression Design and Creating a Sample Icon using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated (Jeff Wilcox)
Silverlight Application – Animal Testing Breaks Hearts (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

TweetCraft – A World of Warcraft Twitter client (Dan Fernandez)
Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper (Eric Hexter)
"XNAVATARS" – PART 1 (Pedro Daniel Güida)
Meffifying Windows Azure (Glenn Block)
VSTS 2010 TMap Process Template 1,2 and 3 (Clemens Reijnen)
Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 3 (Yochay Kiriaty)
MCsla on the Olso May CTP (Rockford Lhotka)
Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems (K. Scott Allen)
IronRuby 0.6 Released! (Jimmy Schementi)
Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 Post Beta 1 (Muhammad Mosa)
Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 4 ) (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner (Jimmy Bogard)
“Controllerless” MVC: A high-level overview of my attempt (Erik)
Which Unit Testing Framework? (John Resig)
Agile Is NOT a Risk Management Strategy (Jurgen Appelo)
Domain Driven Design: Conformist (Mark Needham)
Is your Organization out of Alignment? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Web Development

XHTML 2 Cancelled (Timothy)
Restricting BlogEngine.NET Comments to Sueetie Registered Users Only (Dave Burke)
SubSonic 3.0 is Released (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Successful Cross Platform .NET Development – Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover and The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove (Scott Hanselman)
Whirlwind Around .NET 4 (Eric Mork)
Scott Ambler on the Agile Process Maturity Model (Carl Franklin)
This Week C9: Speech Recognition, Army of 1, TweetCraft and more (Dan Fernandez)
Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo) (Jose Fajardo)
What’s New in Software Development: NeverFail Software Adopts Hyper-V (Bruce Kyle)
Downloading Prism and 10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Episode #123: Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Object Invariant Conditions (Derik Whittaker)
Herding Code 52: The Alan Stevens and G. Andrew Duthie Debate Continues! (Jon Galloway)
Conversation with Stuart Halloway (Corey Haines)
Three great screencasts on Silverlight unit testing (Jeff Wilcox)
Using WPF in Office Add-Ins (John Wiese)

Community / Events

AgiliTrain and Rachel Appel Announce New Classes (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

Automatically create a SQL Server table in a new database. (George Mastros)
DRY SQL (Jamie Thomson)
PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room and DELETE Documents from CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
SQL SERVER – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s Free Windows 7 Training Resources (Blake Handler)
Bringing a Bit of Twitter to Bing (Sean Suchter)
The Blurring Lines of Languages (Justin Etheredge)
MSDN / Technet Subscribers Get Windows 7 July 13th (Keith Elder)
An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two (Ken Sipe)
Who is developing the software profession? (Maggie Longshore)
Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.2 available as a free download (Jose Barreto)
The fallacy of the standardized developer machine/image (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Announcing The Social Way To Get Things Done: Zoho Projects 2.0 (Rodrigo Vaca)
How to display ads on your project from The Lounge – #045 (Sara Ford)
Kodu Nears Xbox Launch and Want to Compare Search Engines? and Follow @Microsoft on Twitter (…and All the Rest!) (Sarah Perez)
Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress” (Jason N. Gaylord)
All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions (Jeff Atwood)
Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for July 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: July 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #382 (Chris Alcock)
The Technology Post for July 2nd, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
CloudNews for 3rd July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory: Books

ISBN: 0321534468
ISBN-13: 9780321534460

Technorati Tags: .net development,subsonic,asp.net mvc,agile,windows 7,functional programming,sql server,silverlight,wpf,unit testing

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Dew Drop – June 26, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

Writing console output from a Windows form in C# (Tom Hearn)
Treating Warnings as Errors in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
Mmm, Curry (Eric Lippert)
Walkthrough: Adding an existing Visual Studio solution to another solution (Habib Heydarian)
Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 2 (Yochay Kiriaty)
Generating Microsoft Office Documents with the Open XML SDK (Vikas Goyal)
CodeRush Xpress for C# and Visual Basic inside Visual Studio 2008 (Mark Miller)

Silverlight / WPF

F# in Silverlight (Luke Hoban)
WPF 2D Physics Plus (Chris Cavanagh)
Silverlight Canvas Panel (Deepak Kapoor)
Expression Design Resources (Mike Ormond)
WPF Chart Controls!!! (Marc Schweigert)
Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000! (Tim Heuer)
My Sillveright-Prism Article is Live! (Shawn Wildermuth)
Silverlight Validation and ViewModel (Josh Twist)
Creating NikeClone with Silverlight, Part 1 (Faisal Hossian Khan)

Web Development

The Weekly Source Code 43 – ASP.NET MVC and T4 and NerdDinner (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
OSX MonoDevelop MVC? (Tobin Harris)
A Better SMTP Development Server (Lee Dumond)
ASP.NET GridView with Custom Paging UI (Malcolm Sheridan)
ASP.NET – Creating a Custom Tag Cloud (Michael Ceranski)
The “Anti-For” Campaign (Matthew Podwysocki)
jQuery Dialog – With Validation Controls and Does jQuery Make Us Lazy? (Dave M. Bush)
JSON Hijacking (Phil Haack)
Declaring Security (Eric Lawrence)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 13 (Rajiv Popat)
Safe refactoring: Removing object initializer, introducing builder (Mark Needham)
How Wise Are You Being With Your Work Time? (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Becoming a better developer, or “How to sidestep a question” (Kyle Baley)
Pair Programming and Pandemics (Pouya Yousefi)
Programmer Confidence and Arrogance (Jay Fields)
How To? Highly Complex Query Generating Based On Security Needs (Derick Bailey)
Making Blenders for the Blind is Like Making Software for Normal People (Chris Love)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

AgileToolkit Podcast – Nationwide – Kevin Fisher – AVP of Product Management – Value of Alignment (Bob Payne)
Margaret Burnett: Gender and Software (Charles Torre)
Video: Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session (Brian Peek)
The NY Times/Silverlight Open API toolkit (Jit Ghosh)
Commanding in Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Demo of SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Features – Configure DW Storage and Demo of SQL Server 2008 DW features: Configuring tempdb for Data Warehouse (Joe Longtin)

Community / Events

Free Microsoft Hyper-V Training Course 6319 (Blake Handler)
ScrumMaster Certification Course in Waltham, MA (Bob Familiar)
Pragmatic Patterns for Architects: Recordings Available (David Makogon)
Enthusiast and Fanatic Badges (Jeff Atwood)
Principles of Design Series: Learning about Unity using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
MSDN Webcast: Enterprise Library 4.1 (Lindsay Rutter)

SharePoint

Belgian MVP Releases SharePoint Tool Basket on CodePlex! (Lorna Williamson)
SharePoint SP2 Update (Bob Fox)
SharePoint BDC Part 1: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog (Tobias Zimmergren)

Database

Live Meeting: Creating a Star Schema and OLAP Cubes (Trevor Dwyer)
SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of Logon Trigger On All Servers – Solution (Pinal Dave)
Not a fan of the Report Manager in SSRS? Using SSRS procedures to get the job done (Ted Krueger)
How to Avoid Database Restore Issues by a Simple Script Edit – A DB Restore Work-around (Hugo Shebbeare)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Upgrade, Retail & Special 50% Off Pre-Order Pricing! (Blake Handler)
Running localized versions of Small Basic (Vijaye)
PowerPoint—Customizing the Ribbon (William Vaughn)
Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do those upgrades really cost? (Ed Bott)
Is programming a generic skill? (Eric Gunnerson)
200 Twitter Mashups (John Musser)
Which Windows 7 version is best for you? Pre-order your copy today! (Taimur Asad)
Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest (Rafe Needleman)
Coding Dojo #18: Groovy Bowling Game (Mark Needham)
An Introduction to Functional Languages (Ken Sipe)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for June 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: June 25, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #376 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2009 — #622 (Dave Campbell)
The Technology Post for June 25th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
Links (6/25/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
CloudNews for 25th June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems: William Steinmetz, Brian Ward: Books

ISBN: 1593271735
ISBN-13: 9781593271732

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