LINKBLOG for October 27, 2008
Oct 27th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Microsoft Windows Live Supports OpenID – Rick Turoczy
This is really good news for OpenID acceptanceRay Ozzie Announces Windows Azure – “Windows in the Cloud” – Richard MacManus
You mind if I keep PDC news this week a bit low? You will read about it everywhere, so me guesses doesn’t add any real value reposting it here. Disagree, cause there’s nothing more interesting than PDC? Please let me know in the comments!Internal DSL Pattern: Method Chaining – Chad Myers
‘ The key points to know with method chaining are:
1. Manipulating or acting upon the underlying model (…)
2. Returning the host object itself (TextBoxExpression, PersonFormatter) from the method to allow repeated calls to the same object. ‘StructureMap 2.5 is Released! – Jeremy D. Miller
Live Geometry project updated to Silverlight 2 final release – Kirill Osenkov
Kiril has updated his cool Geometry tool, working with Silverlight and WPFBrain Trust: 100 Ivy League Business & Entrepreneurship Courses You Can Take for Free - Kelly Kilpatrick
Loads and loads of free resources, ranging from management & leadership to product development and technology. For the long winter nights that are coming (for us in the northern hemisphere that is)How Long Does Your Computer Take to Boot Up? – Gina Trapani
Too long!Visual Studio 2010 – Oren Eini
Oren is privileged to have a preview to the blitzy shiny new stuff in VS 2010, and telling us about itSVN-Monitor is out! – SharpRegion
a ‘ full-featured user-front-end to SubVersion ‘ Go grab it!Generation of web feeds and podcasts – Ole L. Sørensen
Thank goodness we have theSystem.ServiceModel.Syndication.SyndicationFeednamespace these days. Saves us from writing most of the classes used in this post.Parallel Computing – Craig Bailey
Craig reveals the plot behind parallel computing ‘ (…) perhaps parallelism is nothing more than a clever plot to sell more RAM. Dang, those hardware companies are smart! ‘Disassembling .Net Notes: Method Signatures Part 2 – Jason Haley
‘ Continuing with the decoding of method signatures, these notes cover non generic methods, generic methods and vararg methods ‘Exploring NHibernate Statistics, Part 1: Simple Data Fetching – Davy Brion
‘ This post only showed a couple of the (many) interesting statistics that NHibernate can give you, but it could already help you troubleshoot bad-performing parts of your application ‘Screencast: Workflow (WF) Screencast Series – Aaron Skonnard
And Aaron has more new installments: Creating your first WCF client and
Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard » Screencast: Configuring WCF service references
Configuring WCF service references”The most painful task for a programmer – ‘William’
‘ If there is one single reason makes programming the most horrible job in the world, it should be- lack of proper documentationWeb Sandbox: Getting Started
Cool new stuff to be announced at PDF this week, new platform for securing mashups / web applications… start playing in the sandbox using your own codeRapid UI Mockups with Balsamiq – Aaron Jensen
‘ (…) Balsamiq, a very well done application for quickly mocking up UI prototypes. With simple drag and drops you can quickly create some pretty slick prototypes ‘Prevent ReSharper from Adding Regions to Interfaces – Christopher Bennage
Since we don’t all love those Regions, here’s how to stop ReSharper from adding them

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