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Dew Drop – February 11, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

Introducing "Mockups To Go" (Peldi Guilizzoni)
Qualities That Undergird Agile/XP Development (Chris Taylor)
Buzzword Driven Development Isn’t Gonna Help You (Davy Brion)
Domain Driven Design: Learning (Artur Trosin)
When Do I Unit Test? (Leon Gersing)
Why Is Great UI So Hard to Achieve? (Mark Miller)
Agile: Re-Estimating Cards (Mark Needham)
Due Diligence and Code Comments (K. Scott Allen) – Link of the Day
Domain Driven Design & Test Driven DevelopmentDesign with Entity Framework, Part 1.a Refactoring & Unit Testing (Mohammad Mosa)
Entropy in Software (Jimmy Bogard)
DDD: Bounded Contexts (Casey Charlton)

.NET / Visual Studio

Lazy Load and Persistence Ignorance (Jérémie)
One of These Languages Is Not Like the Others – Part 1 (Rick Minerich)
LINQ and The Matrix – Introducing MLinq (Bart de Smet)
BizTalk Server and WCF Support in Visual Studio 2008 (MS Downloads) – A MS whitepaper.
.NET Serialization Wrappers (Rocky Lhotka)
Fluent NHibernate: Auto Mapping, Overrides and Alterations (James Gregory)
Talking Points: ADO.NET Dynamic Data (Joel Reyes)
NServiceBus 1.9 (Udi Dahan)
Back to Basics: 32-bit and 64-bit Confusion Around x86 and x64 and the .NET Framework and CLR (Scott Hanselman)
C# 3.5 Starting to Gel (Jason Haley)
Writing Your First Visual Studio Language Service (Ben Morrison)
Hosting a WF 4.0 Workflow Service in "Dublin" (Brian Loesgen)

Web Development

If You Are Developing on ASP.NET MVC and You Are Not Using MvcContrib… What Is Wrong With You? (Eric Hexter)
JavaScript for C# Programmers: Arrays (Julian M. Bucknall)
MSDN Webcast: Overview of ASP.NET MVC (Lindsay Rutter)
ASP.NET MVC – Model != BLL or DAL (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

Extension Methods Part 2 – Lambda Expressions in LINQ (Jesse Liberty)
Descry, Data and Information Visualization Using Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
XAML Power Toys 4.0 Released – Code Name MVVM (Karl Shifflett)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #93 – Reading XML with Silverlight (Mike Snow)
Using Ninject with Silverlight to Make Your Code More Testable (Maurice de Beijer)
Adobe: Microsoft’s Silverlight ‘has really fizzled’ (Angela Gunn)
Playing Subtitles with Video in Silverlight (Anil Gupta)

Community / Events

Hey Jason, You Can’t Keep Rachel Appel to Yourself Any More (Julie Lerman) – Rachel rocks!
A New Microsoft Site Devoted to IT Pros (Zhiming Xue) – The site doesn’t render very well for me in Firefox.

Miscellaneous

Stream Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and More to Your Xbox 360 (Sarah Perez) – I love PlayOn. It’s worth the $30 to me.
Web Hosting to Cloud Hosting – A Case Study (Krishnan Subramanian)
Do You Know What Time It Is? and 10 Things I Want from the Next Windows Phone OS (Jeff Blankenburg)
Resolved Language Debates? (Matthew Podwysocki)
Microsoft Small Basic v0.3 Is Here (Vijay)
Photosynth Update: New Features & Improvements (Sunshine)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
New and Notable 290 and Windows Azure Links (Sam Gentile)
CloudNews for February 10th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
LINKBLOG for February 10, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
My Projects on MSDN (J.D. Meier)
Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 11 (Mike Snow)
Creators Club Communiqué 17 (Kathleen Sanders)
Silverlight Cream for February 10, 2009 — #513 (Dave Campbell)
Link Listing – February 10, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #284 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Inside the Microsoft® Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (PRO-Developer): Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, William Bartholomew: Books

ISBN: 0735626286
ISBN-13: 9780735626287

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Dew Drop – February 10, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

DDD: The Ubiquitous Language (Casey Charlton)
The Other Kind of Exception Handling (Davy Brion)
The Only Japanese You Need as a Software Developer. Ever. (Arjan Zuidhof)
Code Review with NDepend (Laila Bougria)
Cost? (Greg Young)
TestDriven.Net 2.19: Release Notes (Jamie Cansdale)
Eager Read Derivation (Martin Fowler)
The Cost of Messaging (Oren Eini)
Mocks vs. Stubs (James Kovacs)
Framework Design Guidelines: System.DBNull (Brad Abrams)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight Is the Future, but the Future Isn’t Silverlight (Scott Koon)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #91 – How to Apply Themes from the Silverlight Toolkit and Silverlight Tip of the Day #92 – How to Load Images from a Stream (Mike Snow)
Integrating Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC (Tim Heuer) – Link of the Day
Flexible and Powerful Data Binding with WPF, Part 2 (Walt Ritscher)
XAML Guidelines and Best Practices (Corey Schuman)
Eclipse and Silverlight, Another Interoperability Journey Has Begun (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere)

.NET / Visual Studio

Visual Studio Add-In: CopySourceAsHTML (Gunnar Peipman)
Quickly Setting Up and Using NHibernate’s Second Level Cache (Davy Brion)
UrlScan and ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) (Scott Hanselman)
Tour de BCL and An Intro to Barrier (Jason Olson)

Web Development

How AJAX Is Included as a First Class Concept in Both ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (Anil)
Validator Toolkit for ASP.NET MVC – Release v1.3 (20090208) (CodePlex)
Looking at the Past of Community Server (Keyvan Nayyeri)
WebForms or MVC? What About the Third Option? (Mads Kristensen)
JavaScript for C# Programmers: Object Basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
It’s Not Just About the Code & Product; Your Website’s "Experience" Is What Matters (Dave Schinkel)
Another Way to Test Ajax Methods (John Teague)
How to Use Ninject to Inject Dependencies Into ASP.NET MVC ActionFilters (Simone Chiaretta)
A Breaking Change Between Versions of ASP.NET AJAX (Dave Ward)
S#arp Architecture Trunk Is Compatible with MVC RC (Billy McCafferty)
JavaScript vs Silverlight vs … (Dave M. Bush)

.NET Community / Events

Events This Week – February 9th, 2009 and MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow – Correction (G. Andrew Duthie)
Developer Dinner: What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 (WebForms, AJAX and jQuery)? (Marc Schweigert)
Announcing – Government Software Developers Group on Facebook (Nandita)
Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development in .NET Workshop in Austin, Tuesday, March 24th (Scott Bellware)
New Visual Studio Team System Web Site: http://www.tfsexamples.com/ (Charles Sterling)
My First Video Blog (Sara J. Chipps)
Hanselman’s List of Podcasts for .NET Programmers (Scott Hanselman)
Register Now for Lang.NET Symposium 2009 (Harry Pierson)
You’re Invited: "7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint for Project Management Success" Webcast (Dux Raymond Sy)
SQL Server MVPs Provide a Helping Hand (Jas Dhaliwal)

Miscellaneous

The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture (Jeff Atwood)
On the Origin of Darwin by Means of Extreme Summary, or the Abbreviation of a Voluminous Life in the Struggle for Brevity (Dave Banks)
How Important Is the Job Title to You? (Angela McLaughlin)
Living in the Clouds – OpenDNS (Krishnan Subramanian)
Early Peek Offered for Microsoft My Phone (Bruce Kyle)
Google Sync (Paul Thurrott)
Windows Live Mesh Video Player Available (Sarah Perez)
My Blogging Toolbox (Tim Heuer)
Free eBook on Microsoft Virtualization Solutions (Jose Barreto)
Keyboard Thoughts (Scott Mitchell)
Recognizing Improvements in Windows 7 Handwriting (Yvonne)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Weekly Links #39 (Grant Palin)
LINKBLOG for February 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for February 09, 2009 — #512 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: 2009.02.10 (yuanjian)
The Morning Brew #283 (Chris Alcock)
Link Listing – February 9, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
CloudNews for February 9th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Kindle 2: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation): Kindle Store

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Dew Drop – January 30, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

Managed Preview Handlers (Sasha Goldshtein)
Circumventing the KB957543 .NET 3.5 SP1 Regression Bug (Omer van Kloeten)
F# and Haskell, Estranged Cousins (Rick Minerich)
Programming Team Foundation Server with the TFS SDK (Joydip Kanjilal)
MSTest ReSharper 4 Plugin (Shawn Neal)
IronPython and CodeDOM: Dynamically Compiling C# Files (Harry Pierson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

It’s More Than Syntax (Peter Ritchie)
Rules of the Road (Peter Provost)
First -Scrum- Impressions (Laila Bougria)
Flaccid Scrum (Martin Fowler)
Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 7 (Matthew Podwysocki)
TDD: Test DRYness (Mark Needham)
Leadership 101: Integrity Is a Coin You Can’t Afford to Spend (Jim Holmes)
New Agile Videos on Channel 9 (Ade Miller)

Web Development

Overriding Global T4 Templates in ASP.NET MVC Project with Per Project Templates (David Hayden)
A Lesson in DRY Learned with jQuery (Chris Missal)
Is Classic WebForms More Mature Than ASP.NET MVC? (Jeffrey Palermo) – Link of the Day
Alternating Styles in DataView (Bertrand Le Roy)
Form Validation with ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate (Maarten Balliauw)
30 Essential Controls (Theresa Neil) – Tools for RIA development
ASP.NET MVC RC 1 Source Code and MVC Contrib – Release: 0.0.1.214 – RC Release for MVC RC1 (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF

Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases Word 2007 XAML Generator Add-In (Blake Handler)
Caliburn V1 Roadmap (Rob Eisenberg)
Custom Animations in Silverlight (Gozzo Smith)
XamlCruncher for Silverlight (Charles Petzold)

.NET Community / Events

My Favorite MIX09 10k Challenge Entries (Pete Brown)
TCSWeekly Episode 003 – Silverlight, Moonlight, Kaxaml, Facebook, Multi-Touch (Adam Kinney)

Database

Using SQL 2008 Table Valued Parameters in Microsoft Access (Stephen Forte)
School of Wrox – Week of Warehousing (Free Webinar Series) (Jim Minatel)

Miscellaneous

More Windows 7 Themes, and an Amazing List of Free Stuff from Microsoft (Paul Thurrott)
How Does Your Programming Lanuage Rate? (Michael Ceranski)
50% off All Manning Books for DZone Members (Wei Ling Chen)
RTFLF – Read the *Expletive* Log File (Scott Hanselman)
Hardware Is Expensive, Programmers Are Cheap II (Michael Janke)
My Current .NET Application and Tools Stack (Eric Hexter)
Bring on the Programmer Apologists (Chris Brandsma)
HD vs. SD – Flip MinoHD vs Flip Ultra – Head to Head (Scott Hanselman) – I don’t agree with all of Scott’s perceived negatives of the MinoHD, but it’s an interesting review/comparison.
The Sad Tragedy of Micro-Optimization Theater (Jeff Atwood)
Behind Cable’s DOCSIS 3.0 Broadband Claims (Eric Rabe)
Nordic Track Book Club Review: The Myths of Innovation (Dave Burke)
Google’s GDrive Inches Closer to Becoming a Reality (Lee Matthews)
Github: Making Code More Social (Brady Forrest)
Live Search Add-In for Firefox Adds Auto-Suggest (Kip Kniskern)
How to Get Chrome’s “New Tab” Page in Firefox (Philipp Lenssen)

More Link Collections

CloudNews for January 29th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
Tech Twitterings #13 (Elijah Manor)
Catching Up on Some Blog Reading (Mike Taulty)
Links (1/29/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Silverlight Cream for January 29, 2009 — #501 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #276 (Chris Alcock)
New and Notable 285 (Sam Gentile)
Interesting Finds: January 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development (3rd Edition): Craig Larman: Books

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