2008 October 09 – Links for today
ASP.Net
Bertrand Le Roy on New AJAX Support For Data-Driven Web Apps
CSS
Dmitry illustrates How to Add Drop Shadows to Menus or Windows with CSS
jQuery
Stan Lemon introduces jGrowl “jGrowl is a jQuery plugin that raises unobtrusive messages within the browser, similar to the way that OS X’s Growl Framework works” with an update also available – jGrowl 1.1.1
Other
Smashing Magazine illuminates with Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Best Of: Part 2
Paul Stovell with more on Bindable LINQ: Dependencies and Architecture: Five tips for Low Friction Projects
Ramky asks What are the Good Qualities of a Developer??
Tim Ferris reprints 2600’s article: From Tesla Motors to the “Patriot Hack” – Martin Eberhard on Protecting Your Privacy Online
Patterns & Practices
Shawn Burke gets truly TLA rich with MEF ‘n IoC
Patrick Smacchia explains Some Unexpected Code Dependency Issues in NDepend
Matt grommes continues a really good series in My First Agile Project Part 6: The First End Of Our Project
Silverlight
Kirk Allen Evans on Hosting Silverlight in a SharePoint Webpart
Andy Nogueira’s Thoughts on the application of Siverlight and its direction…
Corey Schuman’s Overview of Databinding in Silverlight
Laurence Moroney on running Silverlight RC0 and Beta 2 Side by Side: Question of the Day
Mike Snow shows us How to Dynamically Load a Silverlight Control within another Silverlight Control
David Hill’s first in a series of articles on Silverlight Navigation – Part 1
Jonas Follesø on Efficient testing in Silverlight 2 using tags
SQL
Kevin Kline makes a large claim indeed with How to Improve Application and Database Performance up to 40% in One Easy Step
Chad Miller continues with SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) Part 2
Brian Walker guides with SQL Server database design disasters: What not to do
UX
Janko Jovanovic another great article on Building better web forms: Validation best practices
WPF
John Bowen details Syntax for Nested Attached Properties
Josh Smith on Binding to (Validation.Errors)[0] without Creating Debug Spew
Pavan Podila notes Generic.xaml must have a build action of Page
Rudi Grobler documents Learning PRISM – Getting Started… and Validation in WPF using PostSharp/AOP
