Reading on Safari (thank you, mobile version on Windows Phone 7!)



So far… it’s helpful as an introductory text.

 

Reading in print: Visual Studio Magazine (http://visualstudiomagazine.com/) 6 Tips of Separation: Take ViewModel for a Spin and Unit Test Your Silverlight Apps by Benjamin Day Good arguments for MVVM, but a little light on Adapter implementation (not sure his implementation is quite how Adapter should be used) which is the primary test target. Also a little light on how this will be used in more complex scenarios.

Improve Authentication with Windows Identity Foundation  by Peter Vogel Good starting points for introducing WIF into your apps.

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I created an XSLT for viewing Visual Studio 2010 Database Project *.sqlpermissions files as an HTML table.

Just a quick note endorsing IcoFx as an icon editor. It's free, and it's very good! I plan to use it for all (well, nearly all!) of my icon editing needs.

A little bit of serendipity here.

Yesterday, I decided to commit to writing a to-do app for Window Phone 7, based mostly on my favorite task-management tool, Todoist. (BTW – if you don’t already have a system you love, you should check this one out. And, no, I’m not compensated or associated with the company in any way.)

So I set up a new page for my Todoist for Windows Phone 7, and a new forum for feedback, etc.

And today, Scott Hanselmann tweeted (again) about the Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch, …



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Here's the link to the book in Safari, where I read and keep most of my technical materials.

Preview

Programming Entity Framework, Second Edition, by Julia Lerman. Copyright 2010 Julia Lerman, 978-0-596-80726-9

I have been studying EF from afar, now I'm going to plow into it and get very comfortable. My plan is to post notes here as I go.

 

As Oracle Sues Google Over Java, Developers Move to Other Languages

Well. Color me surprised. Larry Ellison has thought of yet another way for me to dislike him.

Read this. These are my notes.

Editor’s Note 2 by Jonathan Erickson

Didn’t read that.

Techno-News First Geometric ‘Atlas’ of the Internet Created 3 Mapping new paths for a stressed-out Internet

Yep. They made a map all right. Too bad I don’t need that map.

Features Real-World Software Security 5 by Gary McGraw The Building Security In Maturity Model lets you see how secure your development efforts are when compared to others.

By measuring your company’s security practices in software and development with these 109 activities (organized into 12 categories), you can see how your practices compare with others in general or in your industry. Spider charts and tables give good high-level overviews. Seems like a good standard to use for determining what to pay attention to.

Something I didn’t know: Microsoft has developed guidelines for secure development: The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle....

For a few years now, I've incorporated the EHB into my projects. I have yet to come across any blogs that suggest a technique for choosing the actual policies that one might apply to EHB.

All of the examples I've seen have one of three unhelpful variations:

"General Policy" or "My Custom Exception Policy" "Policy1", "Policy2", etc. "Wrapped Exception Handler Policy" or "Replace Policy" The first variation is not helpful because it is just a giant bucket. Everything fits inside. Policies are only useful if there are more than one, and there is some way to distinguish what should go into one versus another.

The second variation is not helpful because it just makes smaller buckets without value.

The third uses a name which presupposes the way in which the policy will always handle the exception. If I'm the developer, and I know I need to use the "Replace Policy", why don't I just skip the handler and replace the exception on my own? Then all I need to do is possibly log the exception,...

This is one of those little gems I wished I known about a long time ago.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/smartclientdata/archive/2005/08/26/456886.aspx

The DataDirectory macro allows you to specify what amounts to an application relative path to your .mdb files (for SQL Express, on ASP.NET and smart client deployments).