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Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – July 4-5, 2009

Posted on July 5, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Design / Methodology / Testing

Technical Debt – Definition and Resources (Brad Appleton)
Lessons Learned from Bruce Lee (J.D. Meier)
Brownfield Application Development in .NET: Book Review (Mark Needham)
The Problem with Big Design Up Front is the "Big" not the "Up Front" and Designing the Work (Scott Bellware)
Where do developers care for Software Quality? (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
UX Thoughts – Learning Phase Tools II (András Velvárt)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC: How to combine scripts and other resources (Gunnar Peipman)
DinnerNow.net 3.0 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is here! (Habib Heydarian)
Python Web Framework Series – Pylons Part 7: Refactoring, Deployment And Wrap-Up (Ryan Svihla)
Improving the AJAX Control Toolkit with the Lightweight Test Automation Framework (LTAF) (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

Day #4: Communicating Between Two Silverlight Controls and Day #5: Silverlight Drag and Drop (Jeff Blankenburg)
“XNAVATARS” – PART 2 – NO SHADOWS? (Pedro Daniel Güida)
Porting DinnerNow.NET to Azure (Vishwas Lele)

Miscellaneous

Revive your User Group, part II (Joe White)
Experimenting with PowerShell (Jose Barreto)
5 Things You Can Do With Aviary Screen Capture (Thursday Bram)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for July 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: July 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for July 03, 2009 — #628 (Dave Campbell)
Everyman Links for July 3, 2009 (Dave Burke)
Interesting Finds: 2009 07.01 ~ 07.05 (yuanjian)
Weekly Link Post 100 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

Brownfield Application Development in .NET: Donald Belcham, Kyle Baley: Books

ISBN: 1933988711
ISBN-13: 9781933988719

Technorati Tags: .net,silverlight,powershell,ux,user groups,aviary,asp.net ajax,dinnernow

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Checking Out PLINQO to Generate LINQ to SQL Code with CodeSmith

Posted on June 10, 2009 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

I’ve just started taking a look at PLINQO to generate LINQ to SQL code for a sample project I’m working on. So far, I’m impressed. PLINQO looks really promising. If you’re using CodeSmith, you should definitely take a look at it. If you haven’t tried CodeSmith for code generation in .NET, you can get a free trial.

I’ll be posting the sample application when it’s complete.

Technorati Tags: .net,code generation,codesmith,plinqo,linq to sql

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Dew Drop – June 7, 2009

Posted on June 7, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Design / Methodology / Testing

Should We Return Null From Our Methods? (Lee Dumond)
Stop Using Structs Everywhere (Chris Eargle)
High Test Coverage Ratio is a good thing, Anyway! (Patrick Smacchia)
UppercuT – Automated Builds – Test Category Filters (Rob Reynolds)
The Fallacy Of ReUse (Udi Dahan)
Art Of Unit Testing available at Amazon (Roy Osherove)
What Investing Can Teach You About Software Development (Part 1) (Jeremy Jarrell)
What Do You Value? and Productivity in the Cloud… (Mike Cottmeyer)

.NET / Visual Studio

Microsoft Releases Sensor & Location Platform Development Kit for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
LINQ in Action samples available in LINQPad (Fabrice Marguerie)
Connection Pooling: Implemention (Oren Eini)
VS2010 help for the WPFer (Rudi Grobler)
Parallel Stacks – Method View (Daniel Moth)
Getting and compiling T4 Toolbox source code (Oleg Sych)
Operation could destabilize the runtime – Reflection.Emit and common pitfalls (Mehfuz Hossain)
F#: Explicit interface implementation (Mark Needham)
Generic Value Object (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Web Development

How to Bridge the Client-Server Gap using AJAX and jQuery-Part 1 (Jonathan Chaffer & Karl Swedberg)
Multi-targeting of web projects using Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 (Bala Chirtsabesan)
Book review: jQuery in Action (Peter Eysermans)
ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and VS 2010 plan now public (Jeffrey Palermo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

This Week on C9: Project Natal, Qex for SQL, and Bing for Devs (Dan Fernandez) – Link of the Day
10-4 Episode 22: Simplifying Data-Driven Web Applications (Jonathan Carter)

Community / Events

20 Developers to Follow on Twitter (Ben Parr)
MSDN Roadshow Slide Decks (G. Andrew Duthie)
Bridging the gap between communities – ColdFusion and SOTR (Sebastien Lambla)

Database

T-SQL MERGE: My New Friend (Charles Chen)
Thinking outside the box – impressive (Trevor Dwyer)
SQLAuthority News – Using SQL Server 2008 Extended Events – White paper By Jonathan Kehayias (Pinal Dave)
Favorite SSMS Options – and some gotchas (Kimberly L. Tripp)

SharePoint

WCF and SharePoint: context != context (Waldek Mastykarz)

Miscellaneous

WINDOWS 7 FAQ: Top Answers to First Time User’s Questions and Free Ringtones for Your Mobile Phone "Hidden" Within Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
Nordic Track Book Club Review: Outliers (Dave Burke)
Twitter finally verifies verified accounts rumor (Jay Hathaway)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for June 6, 2009 and LINKBLOG for June 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: June 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Weekly Links #56 (Grant Palin)
June 7th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio (Scott Guthrie)
Discoveries This Week 06/07/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

The Art of Unit Testing: with Examples in .NET: Roy Osherove: Books

ISBN: 1933988274
ISBN-13: 9781933988276

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