Interesting Finds: August 22, 2008 - [Final Cut]

Other stuff

• The New Focus Group, Rob Howard - a background entry on where Community Server is going with its analytics/BI tool.
• "Code Leader", Jason Bock - review of "Code Leader", a new book by Patrick Cauldwell
• PureText, Scott Watermasysk - Scott mentions a copy/paste utility I haven't heard of: PureText.
• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR release, Charles Sterling - CTP16 release of VSTS 2008 database edition ... not sure what 'GDR' stands for though ... anyone?
• Screencast: Creating your First WCF Service and Screencast: Configuring WCF Services with Endpoints, Aaron Skonnard - Aaron points at some of the first screen casts that pluralsight is doing over WCF/WF on channel9.
• Error creating window handle., Morten Lyhr - tip on calling dispose when removing controls from their containers in WinForms
• CR/R! Wrap up, Jay Kimble - sounds like Jay likes Code Rush/Refactor! better than Resharper.  Of course he has a few things he misses from Refactor though.  Also points at Rory's zip that contains the community plugins.
• The Return of the CLR, Sam Gentile - I think I can safely say I bought the first version of the SSCLI book due to Sam's CLR talks at code camp.

Reflector stuff

• Red Gate & Reflector: My Concerns..., Jay Kimble - requests that Red Gate not bundle anything with the free Reflector download.  Totally agree with him on that.
• The Future of .NET Reflector, Greg Robinson - copy of the email that went out announcing the change of hands.

Web stuff

• A simple jQuery Client Centering Plugin, Rick Strahl - Rick creates a jQuery plugin for centering elements in a browser window ... something that we all seem to do often.
• Ajax Control Toolkit released for .NET 3.5 SP1, Bertrand Le Roy - release announcement and links to the download on codeplex.
• Localize text in JavaScript files in ASP.NET, Mads Kristensen - Mads has created an httphandler to provide a way to localize javascripts.
• ASP.NET Futures - Generating Dynamic Images with HttpHandlers gets Easier, Scott Hanselman - wow this looks cool!  Ever write an httphandler to generate images?  Then you should check this out.
• Caching Interview Questions Part 2, Shivprasad Koirala - more cache related questions and answers plus links to his other sets of interview questions.
• Known issues for ASP.NET with .NET 3.5 SP1, Tom - Tom describes a couple of known issues and their workarounds.

Database stuff

• SQL Server 2005 temporary tables bug, feature or expected behavior?, Mladen Prajdic - are you a sql server guru?  If so you might be able to help him out.
• SQL SERVER - UDF - Function to Convert Text String to Title Case - Proper Case - Part 2, Pinal Dave - quick Sql script to set the first letter of each word to upper... would me a great function.

Security stuff

• MS Antivirus 2008 morphed from XP Antivirus 2008, lithium - keep an eye out for a file "MSASetup.exe"

Architecture stuff

• My latest article: Web Services federated identity patterns on the Architecture Journal, Jesus Rodriguez - reminder that the next edition of the Architectural Journal is out.  This issue is all about identity and access.

Cloud Computing stuff

• Amazon: One Stop Deployment, James Robertson - his reaction to Amazon's EBS announcement.
• Amazon Boosts Storage Features In EC2, Nik Cubrilovic - Nik's reaction to the EBS announcement and some links to RightScale, Mosso and MediaTemple all things I haven't heard of.

Career stuff

• 6 Answers About Telecommuting, Mike Gunderloy - good list of things telecommuters face (or people wonder about them).  I totally agree with the #3.
• Working for Microsoft outside the U.S., Microsoft HR - ever think about working for a company in an other country?
• Leadership Development Crisis?, Be Excellent - interesting entry on leadership development or lack there of it

Business stuff

• Company Blogs Can Provide Big Insights, Scott Blitstein - entry about product blogs and bloggers.  Something I'm looking into for work.

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop - August 21, 2008 and Dew Drop - August 22, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft
• Visual Studio Links #67, Darren Stokes
• FOLLOW UP: Developer Dinner on .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, Federal Developer
• LINKBLOG for August 21, 2008, Arjan Zuidhof
• Links (8/21/2008), Steve Pietrek
• New and Notable 267 - ASP.NET MVC, Sam Gentile
• The Morning Brew #164, Chris Alcock

posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 4:54 PM