Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 21-23, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 21-23, 2009

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC: Creating reports using Chart control
• T4MVC 2.5.01: added support for Html.RenderAction and Html.Action
• Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA)
• The Search Developer Story in SharePoint 2010 – Query Interfaces
• Using the Microsoft Ajax Library 3.5 with the CDN
• Microsoft AJAX Library Preview 6 & Data Binding

Web Design

• User Interface Design Is Not About Lorem Ipsum And Pretty Boxes
• The Ultimate Toolbox for iPhone Development
• Zen Coding: A Speedy Way To Write HTML/CSS Code

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight 4 Fluid UI
• Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I
• XAML 2009 Features: FactoryMethod\Arguments
• Debugging Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Applications
• The big Silverlight 4 Question
• EdgeCam – Silverlight 4 Webcam & Edge Detection Shader
• Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 – Out of Browser Evolves
• Composition Support in RIA Services
• Prism 2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) migrated to Silverlight 4 Beta
• 50 Interactive Silverlight Applications

Database & Related Technologies

• SQL SERVER – Remove Bookmark Key Lookup – 4 Different Ideas
• NHibernate and Composite Keys
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 2- The Repository
• Procedures with cursors
• Missing foreign key constraints
• First sighting of SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS)

Web Service & Related Technologies

• WCF RIA Services – What you need to know when creating DTO/Presentation Model

Testing

• Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools
• Testing for PowerShell Remoting: Test-PsRemoting
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing in real projects

Architecture

• Visual Studio 2010: Generating sequence diagrams on the fly
• Microsoft Surface SDK opens doors to all
• What’s all this nonsense about Katas?
• Kitchen Agile

Others

• PDC09 Downloader Source Code
• MVPs Release Windows 7 Resource Kit
• Architecture Cafe – An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 18-20, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 18-20, 2009

Web Development

• SharePoint 2010 Public Beta Available For Download
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released – Phil Haack
• Using the JQuery dialog widget in a custom SharePoint web part – Charles Lee
• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Adding Statistical Formulas
• Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer
• The AJAX UpdatePanel Is it your worst enemy?

Web Design

• How to Build a Custom jQuery Tabs Plugin: New Plus Tutorial
• 50 Fresh Interactive Studio and Social Media Agency Websites
• The Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009
• 50 Impressive Magazine and Newspaper Styled Web Designs
• Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Great Discussion With Nikhil Kothari About RIA Services
• Silverlight 4 Beta Announced!
• New Web Features in Silverlight 4 Beta
• Welcome to the WCF RIA Services Beta!
• Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs

Database & Related Technologies

• SQL SERVER – Understanding Table Hints with Examples
• SQL Service Modeling Services
• Agile Entity Framework 4 talks at NotAtPDC Online today
• VS2010 IntelliTrace and Entity Framework Database Interaction
• What Dynamic Data REALLY Is?
• Is building apps with Dynamic Data faster?

Web Service & Related Technologies

• WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4 Beta
• New Web Services Features in Silverlight 4 Beta

Testing

• Writing Maintainable Automated Acceptance Tests – Adam Goucher
• How to get Started with TDD – Miško Hevery

Architecture

• Enhancing your applications for Windows 7
• Creating Windows 7 Multitouch Applications
• Agile Software Development Teams Need Managers Too!
• Where do you benefit from dynamic typing?
• Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) released on DevLabs
• Mindfulness and Agile Teams – Amr Elssamadisy
• Four Attributes of the Ideal Pilot Project – Mike Cohn
• Programming Windows 7 Using Visual Studio 2010
• Awesome .NET 4: Named and Optional Parameters for Classes and Methods

Others

• PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Steven Sinofsky
• Office Mobile 2010 Beta for Windows Mobile
• Internet Explorer 9 Screenshots and Video Demo
• The Only Way to Become Amazingly Great at Something – Leo Babauta
• Five Best Online Backup Tools – online backup – Jason Fitzpatrick
• Building Applications for Windows Azure

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - October 9-11, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - October 9-11, 2009

Web Development

• Using MvcContrib ScriptInclude, Stylesheet, And T4MVC
• ASP.NET MVC Cheat Sheets
• NerdDinner with Fluent NHibernate Part 3 - The infrastructure
• ASP.NET Profiles in Web Application Projects
• ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap
• 15 Helpful Website Usability Facts & Guidelines
• How to trigger an ASP.NET validator from JavaScript?
• ASP.NET MVC learning resource: Request-Handling Pipeline Poster
• Adventures with the SEO Toolkit

Web Design

• A Collection of Humorous Flowcharts for Web Designers
• jQueryPad
• JQuery slideshow with XML Data Source
• The Simple, Quick, and Small jQuery HTML Form Validation Solution
• jQuery Plugin Tutorial
• 6 Advanced JavaScript Techniques You Should Know
• 15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Expression Encoder: Which edition is right for you?
• C# and .NET Tips and Tricks | Going from Model-View-Presenter to MV-VM with WPF Commands
• Live Smooth Streaming Now Released – IIS Media Services 3.0
• Silverlight Cream for October 08, 2009
• Updated Silverlight getting started for beginners

Database & Related Technologies

• SQL SERVER – Download Logical Query Processing Poster
• SQL Data Services (SDS) Part II

Web Service & Related Technologies

• ADO.NET Data Services – Version Headers

Testing

• Testing only the code of value
• TDD Derangement Syndrome
• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: My First Tests

Architecture

• 200 Page Manual on Inversion of Control
• TDD Triage
• The .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security
• A S#arp Project Case Study
• An AutoMapper success story
• Measure twice, cut once
• Pragmatic Thinking & Learning Reviewed
• Functional Programming Fundamentals Lectures
• SOA Patterns presentation on EVAN (recording)
• Want a guided tour through the presentation patterns in StoryTeller?
• How We Do Things – Evolving our TDD/BDD Practice

Others

• .NET Voice Recorder
• What’s the difference between "as" and "cast" operators?
• 8 Awesome Mashups Made Possible by APIs

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - October 5-7, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - October 5-7, 2009

Web Development

• How To Speed Up Your Website By 80% Or More
• Enterprise Library Validation example for ASP.NET MVC 2
• thinking out loud: asp.net mvc & nhaml
• ASPhere web.config editor
• Efficient Server Side Paging With ASP.NET And jQuery
• 3 Image Techniques To Speed Up Your Website
• 5+ Steps to Speed up your Website
• punypng: PNG Compression and Image Optimization
• Asp.net MVC Areas in depth - on code

Web Design

• How to Code a Clean Portfolio Design (Plus Free Five-Page Template)
• jQuery Lesson Series: Introduction to Selectors
• Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started
• 77 Inspirational Example of Pricing Page Designs
• Styling Post Headings That Stick Out
• 50 Surprisingly Amazing Themes for Blogger
• 50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development
• Color Psychology In Creative Design
• CSS2 Visual Cheat Sheet
• Most Used and Abused Web Design Trends of All Time
• Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone
• 34 Excellent Punctuation Inspired Logo Designs
• CSS Shorthand – A Guide to Cleaner and Faster Coding
• Styling Blog Comments: Correct Markup
• Design a Clean and Fresh Company Website In Photoshop
• How to Add a Fixed Position Banner to a Website
• Is There A Perfect Web Design Width?

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight Cream for October 05, 2009
• Changing DatePicker in Silverlight to show current date
• What Do We Want in Silverlight Validation?
• Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor)
• My Favorite Silverlight Extensions APIs – Part 1
• MVVM Light Toolkit V2: What’s new?

Database & Related Technologies

• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Query Hint – FORCE ORDER
• xProfiler – A generic OR/M Profiler
• LINQ Tools
• More testing of Unicode Compression in SQL Server 2008 R2
• Why NHibernate Entities Need A Public Or Protected Parameterless Constructor

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Building WCF Services with F#
• Securing your WCF service with a custom username / password authentication mechanism

Testing

• Test Plan Template
• Team Build without Tests Lists
• The myth that TDD or test-first slows you down is true
• Unit Tests and Debug.Assert()

Architecture

• Attribution and Analogy
• Remember Me-Checkbox
• The Problem With Planning-Agile
• S#arp Architecture Contrib…it’s alive!
• Why No Extension Properties?
• Fun with Func Delegates, Events and Async Operations
• Private Extension Methods
• Strive for Functional Cohesion
• Lean and Kanban Collection
• Announcing the guide for claims based identity and access control
• Delegate Mapper
• Five Myths about Managed Code
• Lazy loading, Inheritance, and Persistence ignorance (part 3)
• Coding: Rules of thumb

Others

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/5/2009+
• Why Google Chrome and FireFox are a big security risk for anyone using them
• In Defense of The Jack of All Trades
• How We Do Things - Planning Part 2
• Quit Living in the Past – Practices Evolve
• Hot Links for 2009-9-17

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - October 2-4, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - October 2-4, 2009

Web Development

• Special Folders You Won’t See in ASP.NET 4.0
• Increase Your Website Performance by Hosting jQuery with a CDN
• Lower Case URLs and ASP.NET MVC
• Seadragon Ajax Control – Quick Start Guide
• Dynamically Generate META tags in ASP.NET Pages with LINQ to SQL
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 - Phil Haack
• New AJAX Control Toolkit Release - Stephen Walther
• Reduce development costs by platforming on SharePoint
• Sending encrypted e-mail with C#

Web Design

• Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• 30 Gorgeous Horizontal Menus for Inspiration
• 10 Easy jQuery Tricks for Designers
• YUI CSS Framework Tutorial
• Password (un)Masking
• Inspirational Showcase of Business Card Websites
• Crucial Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2009
• Silverlight 3 Custom Sorting with Paging Support - Manish Dalal
• DelayBinding: a custom WPF Binding
• Editable Collection Adapter for WPF
• Silverlight Navigation Framework Sample
• Portugal ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services

Database & Related Technologies

• Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
• Specify a Condition while Editing TOP Rows using SQL Server 2008 Management Studio
• Deleting All Records In a Table EXCEPT For the N Most Recently Added Records
• LINQ to SQL & Entity Framework Pitfalls
• Managing Lookup Cache in SQL Server 2008

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Schema-based Development with Windows Communication Foundation
• Building RESTful Clients

Testing

• Creating Smart Stubs with a Mock Framework
• Writing meaningful, self-documenting, behavior-oriented tests
• Successive Method Calls With MoQ - Phil Haack
• Unit Test Definition 2.0 - Roy Osherove

Architecture

• Restraint
• C# Singleton Pattern Code Snippet
• Lazy: On Demand Construction in .NET 4.0
• An Engineer’s Guide to Bandwidth (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
• Strive for Functional Cohesion
• Web Application Toolkit for IE8
• Routers in the Service Bus

Others

• MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 (Microsoft XML Core Services)
• Installing the Windows Azure Tools using the Web Platform Installer
• Great Windows Azure projects on CodePlex
• SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio
• Introducing Visio 2010
• CruiseControl.NET 1.5.0 CTP Released - CruiseControl.NET - Confluence
• Code Contracts Preview: PostConditions
• Leading Through Learning: The Responsibilities of a Team Leader
• 13 Principles of Effective Time Management for Freelancers
• The Do-It-Yourself Team Values Kit

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - September 26-28, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - September 26-28, 2009

Web Development

• 10 Things to remember before launching a website
• Html Encoding Code Blocks With ASP.NET 4
• How To Secure APIs and Mashups
• 7 tips for for loading Javascript rich Web 2.0-like sites significantly faster
• Beyond Goals: Site Search Analytics from the Bottom Up
• MvcContrib 1.0.0.987 released
• Deploying Reporting Services WebParts to SharePoint WSS and MOSS

Web Design

• Simplicity in Good Web Design : Advantages & How -to
• Why Your Next Website Should be Designed with Wireframes
• How to Design Buttons to Help Improve Usability
• How to Build a Simple Button with CSS Image Sprites
• Web Design Trend Hunting – 15 Amazing Infinite Scrolling Websites
• Great Examples of Hand Drawn Elements in Web Design
• Styling Design Elements: 5 Beautiful Post Headings
• 46 Outstanding Web Layouts From DeviantArt
• How to Create an Organic Web Design (and Showcase)
• How To Write Effective And Engaging Design Tutorials
•  The Art of zen-coding: Bringing Snippets to a New Level
• Introducing Google Chrome Frame
• CSS Sprites – Online CSS Sprite Builder
• jQuery Visual Cheat Sheet

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• RIA Svcs Data Source Control
• Silverlight VisualBrush and rounded corners
• Silverlight designer sample code is posted
• MultiBinding for Silverlight 3

Database & Related Technologies

• BEGIN TRANSACTION and COMMIT TRANSACTION
• List All Tables and Views with the XML Data Type in SQL Server
• First CTP of SQL Azure and Updated Training Kit Available!
• FILESTREAM Storage in SQL Server 2008
• SQL to LINQ Cheat Sheet
• The last good date for your database

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview
• WCF and Silverlight Walk Through
• Web Application Toolkit: REST Services
• Binary Encoding Part 5

Testing

• xUnit.net 1.5 Shipped
• A Pragmatic Team TDD Covenant
• Neat Visual Studio Test Options

Architecture

• Complex vs Complicated
• Documentation Driven Development!
• 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines
• Coding Priorities

Others

• Debugging a COM object (Runtime Callable Wrapper) with Visual Studio 2010
• Hosted Solutions For Front End Developers / Designers
• Running Multiple Instances of a Windows Service Using TopShelf
• Why managing a software team can be more effective than "regular" management
• Essential Tips to Help You Become A Proficient Debugger

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - September 21-23, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - September 21-23, 2009

Web Development

• Simplicity in Good Web Design : Advantages & How -to
• Dynamically Setting a Style at Run-Time in ASP.NET
• Adding your logo to the page in an SEO optimized way
• Speeding Up My Website
• Forms Authentication – Creating Users
• Using StructureMap with ASP.NET MVC & MVC Contrib
• Best Practices For Developing on SharePoint Shared
• Control web.config inheritance with IIS 7, ASP.NET options

Web Design

• Enhancing User Interaction With First Person User Interface
• How to implement a perfect multi-level navigation bar
• Updated: See how I used Firebug to learn jQuery
• The Difference Between Art and Design
• 40 High-Quality InDesign Tutorials
• 18 Impressive Tutorials on Creating Vector Illustrations
• JavaScript and its love for zeroes
• 10 Top-Notch CSS Editors

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight, PRISM, and .NET RIA Services
• Fluent API for .NET RIA Services Metadata
• Silverlight Cream for September 21, 2009
• Relative hyperlinks with Silverlight navigation
• XAML Power Toys v5 Published
• Announcing Next Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight
• Silverlight 3.0: WriteableBitmap
• WPF Designer sample code is posted

Database & Related Technologies

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Service Broker and Sample Script
• Nizar’s .NET Blog » LINQ : Implementing IN and NOT IN
• Understanding LINQ and LINQ to SQL (and EF)
• NHibernate, Inverse, and Object Associations
• Hacking LINQ Expressions: Join With Comparer

Web Service & Related Technologies

• A Developer's Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit
• SOA Maturity Models
• Open Group SOA Governance Framework

Testing

• Unit Testing with jQuery using FireUnit & QUnit
• Research and Markets: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem - Design - Solution

Architecture

• Lean Software Development: Less is the New More!
• The 23 Gang of Four Design Patterns .. Revisited
• UI Patterns
• Introducing DynamicWrapper
• Open Source development model
• 10 Tools for Quick & Effective Code Development
• Reporting Progress though a Circle Diagram
• Web Application Architectures

Others

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/21/2009+
• A close-up look at the new Office Web Apps
• How to Update your Twitter Status with CodeIgniter
• An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part VI)

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - September 16-18, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - September 16-18, 2009

Web Development

• Reports in ASP.NET MVC
• Microsoft Ajax CDN and the jQuery Validation Library
• Drawing the Line Between MVC Controllers and Application Services
• Take Two: A jQuery WCF/ASMX ServiceProxy Client
• Auto-Start ASP.NET Applications (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
• 7 Steps for Systematizing The Design & Build Process
• Telerik ASP.NET MVC Grid Preview (Take 1)
• Moving to Web Standards with SuperPreview
• Making JavaScript APIs Easier to Use

Web Design

• The Z-Index CSS Property: A Comprehensive Look
• Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets
• Animate validation feedback using jQuery
• 30 CSS Best Practices for Beginners
• 25 Useful jQuery Tooltip Plugins and Tutorials
• Returning An Array From jQuery's Map() Utility Function
• Greyscale Hover Effect w/ CSS & jQuery
• 12 Tips for Creating a Great Portfolio Site

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Scale-out of Silverlight HTTP polling duplex WCF service in a web farm scenario
• Silverlight Cream for September 16, 2009

Database & Related Technologies

• Inserting Master-Detail Data into a SQL-Server Compact Edition Database
• Using LINQ to query object hierarchies
• Top 10 reasons for coming to SQLBits
• SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight CTP2
• Linq to NHibernate Progress Report
• Simple auditing using an NHibernate IInterceptor (Part 4)

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Using the Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard with Multiple Versions of OpenAccess
• What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part- II – Developing Routing Service

Testing

• Testing NUnit Addins from within NUnit
• TestApi v0.3 Posted

Architecture

• BluePrints:The VeriScale Architecture - Towards a Scalable and Elastic Datacenter
• Simulating a Swarm Algorithm in C#
• Reflection with dynamic
• Book Club: SOLID Principles (Uncle Bob Martin)
• The Downside of Transparency
• Actually Querying with the Specification Pattern

Others

• How To Find Time For… Everything!
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit
• Five Free Tools for Multi-Monitor Computer Set-Ups
• Windows 7 For Architects & Developers – Updates

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - September 13-15, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - September 13-15, 2009

Web Development

• Exploring ASP.NET 4.0—Web Forms and Beyond
• Coding: An abstract class/ASP.NET MVC dilemma
• Functional Construction for ASP.NET Web Forms
• Inheriting Themes for SharePoint publishing sites
• ASP.NET Ajax Preview 5 and UpdatePanel

Web Design

• 22 Awesome Adobe AIR Applications for Designers
• Create Apple’s Navigation Bar in Photoshop from Scratch
• jQuery Tools 1.1.0. is out
• YUI 3.0.0 From Yahoo!
• Top 5 Web Trends of 2009
• 30 Examples of Brilliant Logo Design
• HTML 5 Visual Cheat Sheet
• 7 Rules for Mixing Multiple Fonts in Good Web Design

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight Spy 3 – First Look
• Silverlight ICO/ICON Decoder (Parser)
• Silverlight AutoComplete ComboBox
• Silverlight RIA Services and AutoCompleteBox
• Charting with DataTemplates
• Using Large Message Requests in Silverlight with WCF

Database & Related Technologies

• Automating DBA Tasks
• Storing an Image to a Database in .NET
• Simplifying LazyLinq
• SQL Server Logical Bitwise Operators
• Running a Server Side Trace
• Move a database from one server to another server in SQL Server 2008

Web Service & Related Technologies

• WCF and REST
• Bridge from PHP to .NET through REST – Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services

Testing

• Unit Testing – Do Repeat Yourself
• Automated Web Testing with the WebBrowserControl

Architecture

• .NET FW 4 BCL Features
• Some Initial Thoughts On Agile Developer Skills And Certification
• Code Coverage for Concurrency
• How relevant is UML modeling today?
• A .NET Application that Never Dies
• Quick Extension Method for Grabbing Exception.Data
• T4 and CodeDOM – Better Together

Others

• Search Engine Optimization 101
• Windows Azure Business Side Explained From Developer Point of View
• www.MSDev.com – Free Training!
• 100 Ways To Improve Your Blog

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - September 9-12, 2009

 

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - September 9-12, 2009

Web Development

• Optimize Download Time for AJAX Web Applications
• ASP NET MVC Application Screencast
• Fluent wrapper for ASP.NET MVC TagBuilder
• Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Refcard
• Monitoring Production Performance

Web Design

• 50+ Useful Resources for Web Designers and Developers
• 33 useful Apps & Websites for the freelance designer
• 10 Beautiful jQuery and MooTool Calendar Plugins
• CSS: Design Out Of The Box
• 10 Absolute Best Web Design Galleries
• 20 Fresh jQuery Plugins to Enhance your User Interface
• 10 Really Helpful Traversing Functions in jQuery

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight feature suggestions
• 5 Minute Overview of MVVM in Silverlight
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – 5 minutes of RIA Services
• Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2009
• .NET RIA Services Part 4: Calling methods on the Server from Silverlight.

Database & Related Technologies

• Using the PHP Toolkit with ADO.NET Data Services
• Deriving a list of tables in dependency order
• SQL SERVER – Difference between SQL Server Express and MySQL

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Secure a Wcf server with wsHttpBinding and asp.net membership
• Client Configuration in WCF 4.0
• NetRegistry Reseller API with .Net 3.5 WCF Service
• Big Huge Objects and WCF
• WCF Chat Sample
• Windows Communication Foundation Architecture Overview
• Reporting Services 2008 - Querying a Web Service

Testing

• Unit Testing SharePoint - Past, Present, and Sporm
• Rhino Mocks: Meaningful failure messages on expectations
• Your unit test may smell if….!
• Mocking, Stubs and Project NEric
• xUnit 1.5 Released - Unit Testing Framework for .NET

Architecture

• Agile vs Waterfall vs Iterative vs Lean Software Development - In Pictures!
• When framework designers outsmart themselves [How to: Perform streaming HTTP uploads with .NET]
• SOA Patterns – Reservation
• Learning the Specification Pattern
• It’s Generic, not Multipurpose
• Adventures in System.Diagnostics
• .NET Naming Conventions
• Should We Change the Way We Name Interfaces in .NET?
• Announcing the release of patterns and practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance
• Rethinking Scrum and XP – Mike Cottmeyer

Others

• How to Be Awesome at Work!
• How to find hidden problems in your project before it’s too late
• MonoDevelop 2.2 Beta 1: We go cross platform
• 10 Tips To Help Freelancers Prioritize Tasks
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/7/2009+