2008 October 14 – Links for today
Coding Standards
Fredrik Normén asks Is it important to write good code? With clear illustrations
jQuery
jQuery plugin: UI Tabs
DotNetSlackers continue their series with JQuery, the very very basics – Lesson 5
Rick Strahl on Client Templating with jQuery
Other
Matt Gromes continues his excellent series with My First Agile Project, Part 7: Adventures in Agile Testing
Richard Bradshaw helps us to avoid 5 terrible SEO ideas
Chris Cagle demonstrates How to Create a Mashup by Combining 3 Different APIs
autarch recommends YAGNI principles in that most of the time You don’t need to scale
Shelving and Unshelving in TFS
Silverlight
The huge news has to be the release of Silverlight 2. Samiq urges us to update with his list of bits. Expect lots of updates to controls / code / samples over the next couple of weeks. I will of course post any that I find.
Gerard Leblanc shows off his artistic inclinations in Menus. Part I
Jesse Liberty continues his Databinding series with Data Binding – Data Validation
Corey Schuman Implements the Video Slider control
Shawn Wildermuth discusses ADO.NET Data Services and TimeZone issues
Nathan Brouwer details some of the changes for Silverlight 2 Final (RTW) Available
Access to the teleconference with the announcement of Silverlight 2s release
Dave Relyea breaks down the Silverlight Control Lifecycle
Mike Taulty posts a powerpoint deck on “What is Silverlight”
Ray Booysen on Unit Testing and INotifyPropertyChanged
Rob Houweling implements Clipboard support in Silverlight 2
SQL
Dr Denny (potentially) answers Why is my SELECT COUNT(*) running so slow?
Jacob Sebastian enlightens once more with Understanding SQL Server SET Options 4 – SET ARITHABORT ON | OFF
UX
Dmitry with another great article: Experience vs. Function — a Beautiful UI is Not Always the Best UI
Smashing Magazine’s article on Pricing Tables: Examples And Best Practices Do you guys get product placement freebies / deals? 
WPF
Tamir Khason on SET BINDING, BASED ON TRIGGER
Mike Taulty revisits WPF and “Binding to a Computed Value”
lneir ‘s article on Text On A Path in WPF
AndyL2’s great looking article on WPF Non-Client Area Design Techniques For Custom Window Frames
Mike Hillberg on Namespaces in Xaml
