Daily Links 03/021/2011

Reading barcodes from your WP7 device

Visual Studio Spec Explorer Power Tool
comes with UML Extension as well

Quickly building a trial mode for a Windows Phone application

Useful value converters

Windows Phone GPS Emulator
Well finally! Here's a download link
Pity is seems a little buggy. Map Images take forever to load, and it crashed when I tried using the search function.

Localize a Silverlight 4 Application

Silverlight for Windows Phone free e-book

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Explained

WP7 working with Images: Content vs Resource build action

[Tool Review] – Scrumy – Lightweight Scrum and Kanban

Windows Phone Image Button

Daily Links - 30/04/2009

Silverlight 3 - Simple "Flip Control" built on PlaneProjection

Silverlight 3 - Simple Control for Online/Offline

Silverlight Count Down Control - Your days are counted

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Local Data Store
Comprehensive article on storing data to the client file system

Creating Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 3 - Introduction

Construct domain models faster than ever before!
ORM I am seriously considering for my home project. A little birdy told me there is some sweet silverlight support coming in their next release which is due shortly.
The big win for me is the Domain Driven Design which they follow in the article highlighted above, added to this Mindscape's "convention over configuration" development approach, and excellent price entry point (which is esp important for developers like me working at home on a tight budget)

Getting your Func along with your Action on

All Your Repositories Are Belong To Us
Discussion on Repository vs Command Query Seperation (CQS) Patterns

RefCard for Scrum
Handy summary of the scrum process

Agile Adoption - decreasing time to market

StatSVN
"generates various tables and charts describing the project development"

Shelving Subversion
Would be nice if this mechanism was more actively supported by the SVN toolsets. I want my "Shelve" and "Preserve Pending Changes" button and checkbox in Ankh!

Getting up and Running Quickly with ScrewTurn Wiki & SQL Server

Daily Links - 21/11/2007

What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool
T4: Free code generation tool from Microsoft

New Silverlight Application Checklist
Things to do when you first create a Silverlight application

Specifying timeout duration for WCF services

Securing your WCF Services for your Silverlight Application

How to create a Visual WebGui Silverlight application
VWG is something I've kept my eye on for a while now, and it is very interesting what they are doing to increase development productivity, as well as offer an innovative server-side "ajaxian" architecture, which address concerns such as efficient data transfer and security.

How to start with Scrum

The Decline and Fall of Agile
Why is agile getting a bad name? Read on...

Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money

Daily Links 02/07/2008

Silverlight Desktop
"A framework that allows you to dynamically load Silverlight modules into resizable draggable windows."

Silverlight 2 reference poster











Query Controls using LinQ

Scale Databases Cheaply - Sharding

How to implement SCRUM in 10 easy steps

Disadvantages of Agile Software development
Basically agile is an intense process requiring a high level commitment from everyone involved, without which it will most likely fail and lead to those "agile didn't work for us" comments.

Writing Good User Stories
"User Stories are a simple way of capturing user requirements throughout a project - an alternative to writing lengthy requirements specifications all up-front."

State Machines in C# 3.0 using T4 Templates
Some interesting code making use of partial methods and classes to implement a state machine

ooVoo
Free chat program which includes video conferencing features

Daily Links 23/06/2008

DockPanel Suite
Create dockable windows for your winforms applications ala Visual Studio

Microsoft to take Silverlight offline eventually, says exec

Nice summary on the features of Resharper
(scratching the surface mind you :) )

Software Development and Programming Podcasts

How to get up to speed with Team Foundation Server

SCRUM and Agile Programming using Continuous Build System
brief summary on what's involved doing a SCRUM sprint.

10 reasons why SQL Server 2008 is going to rock
1) is reason enough - intellisense! :)

TFS Code Review tip
tip on viewing (and doing the review on) only the changes made to a file since last check-in

What, the first computer programmer was a woman?!
...and developer of the first compiler...a woman
...so all us geeky guys owe the fairer sex a little more than we thought :)

Daily Links 18/06/2008

Firefox 3 released!

Free open-source charting controls for silverlight

Free Datagrid (with source) for Silverlight from DevExpress
Keep and eye on this page for release details

What a developer needs from their manager

Scrum in 90 minutes - the presentation

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 basic ClientAccessPolicy.xml file

Silverlight Cream
Handy Collection of silverlight articles (cont. updated)

Silverlight Articles on .NET Slackers
latest mostly to do with silverlight animation

Prefix-casting versus as-casting in C#
...was wondering about that :)

RefCard to the 23 original GoF Design Patterns
requires dzone registration

Keep your .config clean with external config files

Need to convert video?
Check out these links

Killer Tools to Get The Most Out of Your USB Thumb Drive

Lies we tell kids

Daily Links - 22/8/2007

Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development

60 AJAX developer resources and tutorials

MbUnit + NUnitForms = MbUnitForms

...and finally something I think most of you have seen, but since I seem to be reminded of it on a daily basis, I thought I'd post it: