Interesting Finds: August 19, 2008 - [Final Cut]

Other stuff

Sasha Goldshtein - Practical Concurrency Patterns: Immutability (Freezables) - Sasha provides some quick advice on the pros (and a few cons) to making objects read-only (Immutable or Freezable).  The entry also mentions a few things that I haven't looked at yet: SafeUnsafeCache<T>, link to how a immutable string can be mutated, the Freezable class and a link to an entry on CLR 2.0 memory model.

Fredrik Normen - How to map a Domain model to a Presentation Model, can this be something? and Map Objects to one Object - the first link is Fredrik takes his code from the previous post and refactors it to be more dynamic (as always - interesting implementation) and the second link he takes the example a little further (closer to a ORM layer).

Sara Ford - Did you know… How to highlight the entire source code line when either the a breakpoint is set or the line is the current statement - #293 and Did you know… How to disable the “the source file is different from when the module was built” warning dialog - #294 - a couple of useful VS.Net tips from Sara.

Brad Abrams - What Changed in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1? - short entry listing some of the changes/new functionality in .net 3.5 sp1.  Shows a NDepend graphic giving you an graphical sense.  Links to Brad's entry from May that sums up what changes were in sp1.

Jason Bock - Constrained Generics and Return Values - Jason discusses a problem with generic constraints he ran into creating a factory that uses generics.

Herbert Sauro -A simple Binary Search Tree written in C# - C# source code and a demo of a binary search tree implementation with a detailed summary of BST's (good for a refresher).

Freelance Switch - The Joy of Virtual Desktops - discussion of the benefits and uses of virtual desktops.  Link to VirtualWin.

Glenn Block - ForEach, a simple but very useful extension method - exactly what the title says: a useful code sample.

Web stuff

Nicholas Allen - Streaming Web Content - sample walk through of how to deliver content from a WCF service to a web page and the different issues that go along with the implementation.

Federal Developer - Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control Samples - links to information about the Virtual Earth Asp.Net control and to several sites that have examples and tutorials about it.

V Bertocci - Setting up a basic CardSpace RP ASP.NET website... using Zermatt - I haven't read all of this one (need to read Keith's White paper first) but it looks to be a great walk through of getting CardSpace up and running in Asp.Net.

Dave Sussman - Tab Style Menus - quick overview of some css styling for menus (and the asp properties).

Ryan Farley - Why I Am No Longer Supporting IE6 - Ryan explains some of the pain points he recently decided to avoid in his site upgrade ... I agree with him - wish I could not support it at work :)

Dave Burke - Photo uploading with Gallery Server Pro - Dave gives an introduction to some of Gallery Server Pro's functionality ... something I'm thinking about using on the next version of my site.

Papenoo pa - ASP.NET Performance - some good tips to help your web applications respond faster.  He has several items on his list that not a lot of people mention.

Tess - Troubleshooting a performance issue with Failed Request Tracing and appcmd in IIS7 - detailed walk through of troubleshooting using failed request tracing and appcmd in Windows Server 2008 ... hmm haven't even heard of them until now.

PowerShell stuff

Steve Schofield - Send email with powershell cmd-let - this is part of the PowerShell Community Extensions project on codeplex - which he links to in the post.

Cloud Computing stuff

Erik Sherman - Cloud Outages: Are Vendors Selling Before They’re Ready? - interesting discussion on some of what companies getting into cloud computing (providing or depending on) face.

pdestoop - SaaS Maturity Model according to Forrester - this is an overview of Forrester's maturity model for SaaS - which consists of 6 levels.  He includes a link to the report (if you have a Forrester subscription you can read it).

Career stuff

Zen Habits - 25 Painless Ways to Free Up an Hour a Day for Your Goals - some good tips (most you already know ... just need a reminder).

Other link blogs

Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - August 18, 2008 and Dew Drop - August 19, 2008
Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for August 18, 2008
David Vidmar - Links of the Week #49 (week 33/2008)
Dave Burke - Everyman Links for August 18, 2008
Chris Alcock - The Morning Brew #161
Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #272

posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:48 AM

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