2008 September 18 – Links for today
AJAX
Shivprasad Koirala brings us his Ajax quick start FAQ
Patterns & Practices
Alan Holubs Everything you know is wrong slides. Worth reviewing 
Spiderman_Anhvu shows us an easy example for implementing the Observer Pattern
jQuery
I love jQuery, and the things it enables you to do. As we come closer to managed javascript and JIT script and a whole bunch of other javascript engine enhancements I really do start to wonder where the best RIA development environment and accessibility is going to come from. This little plugin which draws the users attention to a particular area of the page is a great wee example of this without the need for browser plugins. Nice one James.
Other
Jackie Goldstein reports on a Great Tool for Learning LINQ to Entities
CodeGuru have a nice ADO.NET Entity Framework Tutorial and Basics
Silverlight
Jonas Follesų (sorry for the prior misspelling Jonas) reports that Google Chrome now plays nicely with Silverlight 2 (except for when in windowless mode apparently, but definately a step in the right direction). Personal update on this one: Both Googles and Jon Galloways instructions on this (both linked to in Jonas’ article are really easy to follow. I have just done the update and all is sweet Even the easter egg in the hard rock cafe deep zoom app works great (Press V when the deep zoom has focus then use your mouse wheel to scroll out). /me now sets google chrome as default browser – its just so fast – don’t worry firefox you are still my dev browser of choice
Manish Dalal brings us the next part of his Silverlight Business Application Part 6: IEditableObject and add new time (Take 3!)
Dr Z gives us more links to a whole bunch of Silverlight event recorded sessions. You will want to at least see what gems are on offer here.
Jesse Liberty brings more Silverlight godness with Dependency Properties ? Background for Custom Controls
Mike Snow’s Tip of the Day: How to create a web service for your Silverlight app. Thanks Mike, love the series, keep em coming
Jeff Paries brings more animation goodies to the table from his forthcoming book
Martin Grayson introduces Blacklight – his new Silverlight codeplex project
Shawn Burke outlines some of the upcoming Silverlight controls
TDD
Jonathan de Halleux outlines combining traditionand TDD and automated test generation
WPF
Jeremiah Morrill reports that his WPF MediaKit is now available on CodePlex here
