Markus Tamm

WPF / Silverlight

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Sidebar – More About ListBox Than You Ever Wanted To Know (Christian Schormann)
• When creating a DependencyProperty, follow the handy convention of “wrapper+register+static+virtual” (Delay)

.NET

• Knights, Knaves, Protected and Internal (Eric Lippert)
• Incrementing the Assembly Version for Each Build (Jeremy Jameson)
• Just how lazy are you? (Jon Skeet)
• Unit Test the Behavior, Not the Implementation (Karl Seguin)
• Law Of Demeter: Extension Methods Don’t Count (Derick Bailey)
• TDD: Consistent test structure (Mark Needham)

Career

• Why some smart people don’t help other people? (Rajesh Setty)
• The Energy of Gainful Employment (Rosa Say)
• 12 Ways to Find More Time (Meryl K Evans)

WPF / Silverlight

• View/ViewModel Interaction – Bindings, Commands and Triggers (Nikhil Kothari)
• The CLR wrapper for a DependencyProperty should do its job and nothing more (Delay)
• Rotating and cropping an image in WPF (Pete Brown)
• Commands as XAML Resources (Ward Bell)

.NET

• Strengthening your domain: Encapsulating operations (Jimmy Bogard)
• Using String Values for Enum Type (azamsharp)
• Design Patterns Uncovered: The Decorator Pattern (James Sugrue)
• C# Lambda Expressions (BlackWasp)

Career

• What Skills is IT Looking For This Year? (Curt Finch)
• 10 Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein (Mr. Self Development)
• Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein: Part Deux (Mr. Self Development)
• My ten development principles (Alberto Gutierrez)

Misc

• Three Levels of the REST Maturity Model (Boris Lublinsky)
• Temporary Code, Sustainable Code and Everything in Between (Vikas Hazrati)
• Fail Safe (Robert Annett)
• Sucking Less: Checking In More Often (Jerry Andrews)

WPF / Silverlight

• GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding vs CellTemplate (Marlon)
• How can I sort a hierarchy? (Bea Stollnitz)

.NET

• Managing NHibernate Sessions with IoC (Erik Peterson)
• Slides of My Presentation on Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection Pattern (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Defensive Programming and the UI (Mark Needham)

Agile

• Nathaniel Talbott on Experiment Driven Design (Nathaniel Talbott, Obie Fernandez)
• Agile Documentation: Is There Clarity? (Amr Elssamadisy)
• Additional Value from the Scrum course (Joe Little)

Misc

• Table Relationships (Marlon)
• Running Ruby And Rake (and albacore) Without Installing Them (Derick Bailey)

Career

• Cheat Sheet – Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection Pattern (J.D. Meier)
• You Don’t Need Math Skills To Be A Good Developer But You Do Need Them To Be A Great One (Alan Skorkin)
• 10 Ways to Deal With the Non-Simplifying Others in Your Life (Leo Babauta)
• Recognition and Respect: How to Earn It (Stefan Lindegaard)

WPF / Silverlight

• GetObject vs StartObject in System.Xaml (Michael Shim)

.NET

• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• What is DLL import binding? (oldnewthing)
• Functional C#: Continuation Passing Style (Mark Needham)
• Comparison of Architecture presentation patterns MVP(SC),MVP(PV),PM,MVVM and MVC (Shivprasad koirala)
• Validate your conventions. (Krzysztof Kozmic)
• A Response Concerning Semantics And Intention Revealing Code (Derick Bailey)
• Teaching AutoMapper about our conventions (Joshua Flanagan)
• .NET Stack Traces And Anonymous Methods (Derick Bailey)

Agile

• A Manifesto of Done (Shane Hastie)
• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 8: Planning (James Shore)

Career

• What Employers Want (cstephenson)
• Are You Remarkable? (Amber Singleton Riviere)

Misc

• Steps towards REST (Martin Fowler)
• Is SaaS the same as cloud? (Phil Wainewright)
• Code Comments, What Are They Good For? (Russell Ball)

Agile

• Should a professional developer always use TDD? (cellfish)
• Anti Patterns Catalog
• Scrum Gathering Musings (Karl Scotland)
• Ken Schwaber and and Sam Guckenheimer: Professional Scrum Development (Charles)
• An Alternative to Certifications (Mark Levison)

Career

• The Simple Guide to Optimal Health & Fitness (Mark Sisson)
• Challenge: Learn One New Thing Today (Buck Woody)

Misc

• ThoughtWorks’ Developers Favor Distributed Version Control Systems (Abel Avram)

WPF

• Testing a WPF UI using Ruby, Cucumber and WiPFlash.dll (Ben Hall)
• Control input focus from ViewModel objects (Josh Smith)
• WPF : Re-usable MVVM Ready Breadcrumb control (Sacha Barber)

.NET

• Lambda-passing style for access to resources with lifecycles (Alex Scordellis)
• C# Proposal: Compile Time Static Checking Of Dynamic Objects (Paulo Morgado)
• Dime Casts.Net # 167 – Setting Up Basic Mappings w/ Fluent NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)
• Working With Assertions Made on Arguments in Rhino Mocks (Chris Missal)

Agile

• Parallel Pair Programming (Mark Needham)

Career

• How to get unstuck in life (Penelope Trunk)
• A Thoroughly Modern Developer (Peter Gillard-Moss)

Misc

• Simple Branching and Merging with SVN (Steve Smith)
• Dealing with REST Services Security (Boris Lublinsky)

.NET

• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
• Static methods are a code smell (Ben Day)
• Sort collection class using LINQ for NUnit projects (VasileI)
• Sort Items in an XML file using LINQToXML and Load it in a Dictionary (Suprotim Agarwal)

Agile

• Adventures in Scrum: Lesson 1 – The failed Sprint (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Adventures in Scrum: Lesson 2 – For the record (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Most Effective Team Structure (Vikas Hazrati)

Career

• How to Be a Positive Person, in Under 300 Words (Leo Babauta)

Misc

• REST: Resources, URI’s and Representations (cory.isakson)
• Software as a service

.NET

• How do you mock out the file system in C# for unit testing?
• Needed: File system interfaces and implementation in .NET
• Mocks Aren’t Stubs (Martin Fowler)
• Injectable file adapters (Mauricio Scheffer)
• New, But Not So Obvious, Features in .NET 4.0 (Galilyou)
• C# 101: Virtual Function Members Vs Abstract Function Members (silvercrux)
• What is map/reduce for, anyway? (Ayende Rahien)
• Semantic Code: Migrating From A Chatty Interface To A Simple One With A Data Transfer Object (Derick Bailey)

Agile

• Are You Playing Checker or Chess? – YAGNI Revisited (Tim Barcz)
• Is the Agile Community Being Unreasonable? (Amr Elssamadisy)
• The Book Shelf: Lean Software Development An Agile Toolkit (John V. Petersen)

Misc

• The Difference Between A Developer, A Programmer And A Computer Scientist (Alan Skorkin)

WPF / Silverlight

• .toolbox – Free online Silverlight and Expression Blend training (Adam Kinney)
• Previewing fonts in WPF with no code or executable (marcelolr)
• Making WPF Binding Errors Exceptions (Jason Bock)

.NET

• A Visual Look At The LINQ SelectMany Operator (Justin Etheredge)
• How to merge your referenced assemblies into the output assembly for improved usability (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Zen Coding and ReSharper PowerToys (Hadi Hariri)
• How can I get objects and property values from expression trees? (Alexandra Rusina)
• Getting an Assembly From the GAC (Jim Holmes)
• Joins in LINQ to SQL (Raj Kaimal)
• Announcing the MEF Contrib Documentation Project (Chris Woodruff)

Agile

• Pairing isn’t the Solution (Jay Fields)

Career

• 5 Tips to get the most out of your coding time (Hatim Rih)
• How to Provide Constructive Criticism (Stephen D. Marsh)

Misc

• Martin Fowler on the ethics of software development – QCon report (Tim Anderson)

.NET

• Practice Software Patterns – Component Patterns (Caleb Jenkins)
• POCO Template Code Generation Options (dpblogs)
• Dimecasts.net # 166 – Setting Up Fluent NHibernate for your project (Derik Whittaker)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Two (Eric Lippert)

Agile

• Does an organisation need to be fully committed to agile/lean/scrum? (Mark Needham)

Career

• Good list to help run a brainstorming session (Jason Haley)
• Use 3 Stories to Drive Your Week (J.D. Meier)