Dew Drop – April 20, 2009

Long list today because I skipped the weekend post. I was busy at Philly.NET Code Camp 2009.1 on Saturday. Thanks to everyone who came out to my S#arp Architecture talk, especially Nick and Sara.

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# String.Empty Example and Issues (Sam Allen)
• C# “” better than string.Empty? (Dave M. Bush)
• NHibernate Mapping – <one-to-one/> and NHibernate Mapping – <join/> (Oren Eini)
• More on the lock-free stack/queue: memory fences (Julian M. Bucknall)
• LINQ to Z3 – Theorem Solving on Steroids – Part 0 (Bart de Smet)
• Extension Methods in C#: cool but at what cost? (Christopher Diggins)
• Introduction to HealthvaultDevelopment #11: Data filtering (Eric Gunnerson)
• C# Regions are not Useful? Give me a Break (Dave Schinkel)
• F# Basics – Infix Operators (Jason Olson)
• How does C# Lambda expressions work? (Fredrik Eriksson)
• Keep Your IQueryable In Check (Justin Etheredge)
• The sorry tale of the Visual Studio Web Site (Mike Hadlow)
• Developing Surface Applications (Luis Cabrera)
• How Relationships are Modeled in "MSchema" (Shawn Wildermuth)

Silverlight / WPF

• .Net RIA Services and Multi-table Joins (Bob Baker)
• View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)
• A WPF Countdown Timer in PowerShell 2.0 (Joel Bennett)
• Some facts about Silverlight 3 and where it’s going (Peter Bromberg)
• Navigation system in WPF (Lester Lobo)
• Silverlight Layouts Part 1 (Charlie Calvert)
• Silverlight 3 Out of Browser – Quick Rant and It took me under 5 minutes to realize the power of behaviors… (Jose Fajardo)
• Cracking an XPS in WPF and WPF Quick Tip: Converters as MarkupExtensions (Josh Twist)
• Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Support Publishing To DeepZoomPix! (Sunshine)
• WPF : Dynamic Search Driven List Results (Now uses AppDomain) and WPF : Blend 3 Interactions / Behaviours (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight 3 – Out of Browser Applications with Cached Extensions (Mike Taulty)
• SuperPreview with Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)

Web Development

• Just Noticed some Great Tutorials by the Author of Learning ExtJS (Peter Kellner)
• ASP.NET Session State shared between IE Tabs and IE8 (Harish Ranganathan)
• Minimize Code by Using jQuery and Data Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• JavaScript Unit Testing Part 2: JSSpec (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC Free eBooks (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• The performance implications of the expression tree-based ActionLink helper and How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications (Simone Chiaretta)
• Native JSON Parsing: What does it mean? (Rick Strahl) – Link of the Day
• OpenRasta, or “How to speak REST” (Kyle Baley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• "Don’t be a plumber" is horrible advice. (Leon Gersing)
• What do I expect from guidance? and Repository is the new Singleton and Where is the ROI? (Oren Eini)
• The Agility Cycle – Part 1 (Brad Appleton)
• Put Performance Concerns Into Perspective and Gotta Love Refactoring (Davy Brion)
• Decoupling Workflow And Forms With An Application Controller (Derick Bailey)
• First Order Agile Scaling and The Software Requirements Balancing Act (Mike Cottmeyer)
• AJAX Architectures Condensed (Dino Esposito)
• Leader vs. Ruler: Which One Are You? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Ditching the Micro-Optimization Fetish (Justin Etheredge)
• Half-a-Book Review: SOA Patterns (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• F#: Refactoring that little twitter application into objects and I don’t have time not to test! and Coding: Applying levels of abstraction (Mark Needham)
• 10 ways to reduce cost of software testing (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Saga Persistence and Event-Driven Architectures (Udi Dahan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week on C9: Office 2010, PowerShell for OpenXML, and would you help a robot (Brian Keller)
• Another Video Blog (Sara Chipps)
• ViewModel (MVVM) in Raw Silverlight 2 (Erik Mork)
• CodeCast: Oslo and M with Paul Vick (Chris Sells)
• Herding Code 43: Javier Lozano on the "M" in MVC (Jon Galloway)
• deCast – Building an Azure App Part III: Hosting Web Services and Silverlight (Rob Bagby)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video series pre-purchase offer (Rockford Lhotka)
• Major Nelson Show #316 : Lode Runner and photo editing laptops (Larry Hryb)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Announces "OfficePalooza" Two Week Contest Event for VBA Office Programmers (Blake Handler)
• Virtual ALT.NET Meeting about S#arp Architecture (Chad Myers)
• Philly .NET Code Camp Notes (Erik Peterson)
• Code Camp 2009.1 – Gooey GUI… Programming in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)

Database

• C Style operators in SQL Server 2008 (Darrel Carver)
• The Relational Model (Ken Downs)
• SQLAuthority News – Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 and SQLAuthority Book Review – Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide by Michael Coles (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Mobile 6.5 coming May 11, WM 6.5 phones not so much (Brad Linder)
• SharePoint sheds the “Office” label with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Google Pushing Chrome to Internet Explorer Users (Keith Elder)
• There is a “Are you sure you want to navigate away?” alert when editing your wiki? – #018 and You can enlarge the wiki text area – #019 (Sara Ford)
• New Windows Live Mobile Client and FeedMe: An RSS/Podcast Client for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
• Low Bandwidth View and other Hidden (and Future) Features of MSDN (Scott Hanselman)
• Evernote’s New Twitter Functionality (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows 7 RC to be released publicly on May 5 (Lee Mathews)
• Microsoft Technology Roadmap Links and Resources (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Five: Reification (Eric Lippert)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 17, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 19, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #330 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2009 — #573 and Silverlight Cream for April 19, 2009 — #574 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #49 (Grant Palin)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 18 (Denis Gobo)
• Squeezed Links: April 2009 (Max Pool)
• New and Notable 313 (Sam Gentile)
• Weekly Link Post 90 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for April 17th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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