2008 October 21 – Links for today
The last few days have been more than a little busy and much has happened in the world at large so I better get on with it 
ASP.Net
Stephen Walther presents us with A Guide to Learning ASP.NET MVC Beta 1
Scott Guthrie’s post on ASP.NET MVC Beta Released
CSS
CSS Best Practices anyone?
David Storey on Automatic numbering with CSS Counters
Nick La with a How to: CSS Large Background
Niels Matthijs on Writing Flexible CSS
jQuery
DotNetSlackers continues the great little intro series with JQuery, the very very basics – Lesson 5 and JQuery, the very very basics – Lesson 6
Chris Moyer adds his thoughts with A Programmer’s Introduction to jQuery
James Eggers on Starting With jQuery – How to Write Custom Validation Rules
Other
Megha P presents Create Progress bar in windows application
Steve Smith on getting fiddler for firefox
Matt Berseth continues his page tracking system with Updates to my Live Traffic Page
Steven Snell’s 10 Helpful Resources for Cross Browser Testing
Smashing Magazines Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions
Patterns & Practices
Tobias Mayer on Scrum Smells with When is Scrum not Scrum?
Matt Gromes continues with My First Agile Project Part 8: 9 Things We Disliked (and Liked) about
Silverlight
Nikhil Kothari on Silverlight Controls with Effects and Transitions
Bart Czernicki discusses Silverlight and the Enterprise
Laurent Bugnion with his experiences of Redesigning my website with the help of Expression Blend
Jesse Liberty on Silverlight and Data
Laurence Moroney on developing a Panoramic Deep Zoom
Mike Taulty with Part 2 of Silverlight 2, Html DOM Interoperability ( 2 )
Andy Beaulieu’s Physics Helper Beta 1!
Scott Barnes announces Project Deep Zoom JellyFish is out!
Terence Tsang’s great First Silverlight 2 Application: Color Picker
Pete Brown continues with How to Build Facebook Applications with Silverlight 2 RTW – Part 2 of 2
Mike Snow’s Tips: How to Create a Hyperlink and How to Monitor HTTP Traffic for Errors
Konstantin Petkov UI Automation/Accessibility in Silverlight 2, tools and resources summary
Creating a localizable Silverlight 2.0 RTW Application
Mike Dobbles on Creating a skinnable custom control
Christopher Bennage introduces us to Frame-based Bitmap Animations in Silverlight
Headup: a discovery agent for Firefox based on Silverlight 2.
VisiFire: open source data visualization components
Paulio on Progressive Enhancement with Silverlight ”use Silverlight to enhance a HTML table and scrape the data from the HTML”
Jeff Prosise COOL SILVERLIGHT TRICK #1 “allowing managed code to integrate with the browser DOM” and COOL SILVERLIGHT TRICK #2 “call directly from one control instance to the other”
Adam Kinney reckons SilverlightContrib is taking off – developing into a good looking library peeps
SQL
Louis Roy with a great little article on Test-Driven Development of T-SQL Code
TDD
Ian Cooper on ObjectMother and TestDataBuilder
UX
This one could have gone in CSS or jQuery, but really this is a UX thang I reckon. Nick La presents a really nice CSS Dock menu much akin to Mac menus
Smashing Magazine’s 50 Excellent AJAX Tutorials
Dana Chisnell on Quick and Dirty Usability Testing: Step Away from the Book
WPF
Dr. WPF with ItemsControl: ‘E’ is for Editable Collection
Sacha Barber on .NET 3.5 SP1 StringFormat Binding Property Weirdness (A Rant)
Sam Nobles WPF Elliptical Layout Control – 3D! I liked this a lot and wonder if you could make it 3d inasmuch as you could select an item from the other side of the ellipsis which would bring it to the front. i.e. selecting the item at the very back rolls the control over to that item?
