Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - August 20-24, 2009

Web Development

• ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) 1.1 Released
• Building a Simple Cache Manager - Gil Fink on .Net
• Write Firefox Extensions in Visual Studio with Web Site Projects
• ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Strongly Typed UI Helper Performance
• REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK - Maarten Balliauw
• 10 Vital Lessons for Web Start-Ups

Web Design

• The Web Design Process Start to Finish
• 25 Creative Website Footers
• 10 Interface Rockstars You Should Know About
• A Crash-Course in Advanced CSS3 Effects
• Essential Tips for Designing an Effective Homepage
• Building Web Pages With HTML 5
• Smart Advertising – 30+ Bizarre and Creative Ads
• Letterpress Effect with CSS
• 50 Creative Advertisement Examples
• How to Make a Mega Drop-Down Menu
• Elegant ScrollPanes with jQuery and CSS3
• 22 Photoshop Web Design Interface Tutorial Sites
• Automatically generate table of contents using jQuery
• 6 Essential tools to check your website Usability

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Comparision between Silverlight vs. Flash
• Silverlight misconceptions, bad reviews, bad comparisons
• How To Wrap Text in a Silverlight 3 ComboBox
• Additional physics based behaviors for Blend and Silverlight
• An out-of-browser install pattern for Silverlight
• Creating a Silverlight DataContext Proxy to Simplify Data Binding in Nested Controls
• Silverlight and RIA Services – Part II
• Switching themes based on the ambient light?

Database & Related Technologies

• NHibernate vs Entity Framework: a performance test
• Tips when working with SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services)
• Nikhil Kothari’s Weblog : BLinq – Linq to Bing Search APIs
• SQL SERVER – Measure CPU Pressure – CPU Business
• NHibernate Perf Tricks - Ayende Rahien
• Languages in the 2nd Edition of Programming Entity Framework

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Windows Communication Foundation extensibility to the max
• A Developer's Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit
• WCF Extensibility part 2: The big picture
• WCF Extensibility part 3: Formatting operations

Testing

• How to unit-test asynchronous operations?
• ASP.NET MVC, TDD and Fluent Validation
• Test Your Website in Different Screen Resolutions - Amit Agarwal

Architecture

• Improved MEF + Unity Integration Layer
• Queueing Theory In Action, plus, frogs - Eric Lippert
• Some useful DateTime extensions - Mark Blomsma
• Coding: Unused code - Mark Needham
• Simpler Transactions
• It should be easy to build *good* software - Jimmy Nilsson
• Adopting Agile… the Video Podcast - Mike Cottmeyer
• Protect Your Site Reputation: Avoid these Unethical SEO Tactics – FreelanceSwitch
• Passing data between layers using Generic list collection
• Avoiding The Perils Of Demo Driven Development
• The first rule of exception handling: do not do exception handling
• Code Rush: when making software was fun
• The Only Truly Failed Project

Others

• Better Projects: A manager’s checklist
• Expand Your Development Skills With Creative Tech Projects
• The future is here: Video Playing Ad in a Print Magazine
• I Love Reviews
• 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know- Adrian
• The “dream book” for C# and .NET – Jon Skeet: Coding Blog
• Ideas are a work of art