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Daily Reading List – Wednesday April 29th, 2009

How to find blocked processes in SQL Server – Part 1 – required knowledge for developers of all caliber
From Reflective Perspective:

The asp.net <deployment retail=" true" /> attribute – interesting…. I need to look into this
What’s been happening in Fluent NHibernate land? This is a wonderful project for anyone using NHibernate
What developers should be doing in readiness for Windows 7 – I’m definitely into this. History (and my eval of it) suggests Win7 uptake is going to be huge… need to be ready
Validation - Part 3 - Server-Side – Another good post from Karl, but man does he abuse the var keyword… makes my eyeballs bleed
Singletons vs. Static Classes – dose of the classics

From Alvin Ashcroft’s Morning Dew

Introducing Dovetail Data Map – this looks interesting
Weak/Strong APIs (Mark Needham)
Why agile transitions initiatives might fail (Jeffrey Palermo)
Why Messaging #1 - Intro (Dru Sellers)
Don’t Worship at the Altar of Accuracy (Steve Rowe)

From Jason Haley

pdb2mdb and Mono.Cecil.Pdb, Jb Evain
At This Point, I’d Prefer Java Developers Over .NET Developers, Davy Brion
Yet Another XML Serialization Library for the .NET Framework, Sina Iravanian
Why Agile Development Requires Agile Architecture, Nick Malik
Create a jQuery Context Menu for Treeview, Ronald G. Carrigan
CSS3 Template Layout through jQuery, Ben Galbraith

author: kellyb | posted @ Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:37 AM | Feedback (0)

Daily Reading List – Monday April 28, 2009

Stayed up too late last night… tough getting up this morning

Ayende an interesting technique for testing NHibernate with in-memory databases
Dimecast.net just released a screencast covering the new Func and Action types in C# 3.0
JumpstartTV has a 4 minute primer on SSIS Expression Language Basics
From The Morning Brew #336, Karl Seguin starts a series on rolling his own validation framework. I like series like this (check out Danny’s series on building the Funq DI container) – you can learn alot from watching someone else code.

Validation Part - 2 – Client-Side

The 7 Phases of Unit Testing – very true
It’s time to start drinking in MEF – Glen Block’s post – Poco, Mef and custom type systems. Are you ready to take the red pill? – post looks interesting
Having a look over the SharpDevelop code base – this looks interesting. I’m sure there’s plenty to learn here from this not-small project

author: kellyb | posted @ Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:30 AM | Feedback (0)