A set of articles on RX

Here is a set of articles on RX (Reactive Extensions):

• A nice 7 part write-up on the Reactive Extensions by Lee Campbell
• Reactive Extensions for .NET – Event-based Async Operations by Matthew Podwysocki
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Buffering

A set of articles on MEF

Here is a set of articles on MEF (Manage Extensibility Framework):

• .NET 4.0 MEF FAQ (Socket, Plug and extension)
• Effective MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework)

Will add more as they become available.

New Ruby and Rails Released

Rails 3.0: It’s ready!

Rails 3.0 released

Ruby 1.9.2 Released!

AMQP in 10 mins

• Part1 – Introduction
• Part2 – Achieving Interoperability And Avoiding Vendor Lock -in
• Part3 – Flexible Routing Model
• Part4 – Standard Exchange Types And Supporting Common Messaging Use Cases

Windows Phone 7 Jump Start

Here is the Windows Phone 7 Jump Start video training session by Emily Gibson:

Session 1: Introduction
Session 2: Building a Silverlight Application, Part 1
Session 3: Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2
Session 4: Building Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform
Session 5: Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 1
Session 6: Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 2
Session 7: Advanced Application Development, Part 1
Session 8: Advanced Application Development, Part 2
Session 9: Advanced Application Development, Part 3
Session 10: Marketing Your Windows Phone 7 Application
Session 11: Working with Media
Session 12: Final Silverlight Topics and Wrap-Up

Articles on Microsoft Code Contracts

List of  articles of a series concerning Microsoft Code Contracts. Articles without a link will be published as they become available.

• Part 01 – Introduction
• Part 02 – Preconditions
• Part 03 – Postconditions
• Part 04 – Object Invariants
• Part 05 – Abstract Types and Interfaces
• Part 06 – Runtime Support

• Part 07 – Contract Reference Assemblies
• Part 08 – An Interview with the Microsoft Code Contracts Team

• Part 09 – Refactoring a Legacy Code Base
• Part 10 – Writing a Custom Contract Runtime Class
• Part 11 – Documenting Code Contracts
• Part 12 – Command Line Tools
• Part 13 – Contracts in Continuous Integration
• Part 14 – A Chat with Microsoft’s Code Contracts Team

Scott Hanselman’s Greatest Hits in 2009

Scott Hanselman‘s Greatest Hits in 2009 (also in  2008):

General Geekery

• Painful Reminder: Focus on Core Competencies (and Back Stuff Up)
• 10 Awesome Things I Remember About Computers
• FizzBin – The Technical Support Secret Handshake
• Paving my machine for a fresh 2009 – First-Pass Must-Haves
• Low Bandwidth View and other Hidden (and Future) Features of MSDN
• Less Virtual, More Machine – Windows 7 and the magic of Boot to VHD
• Switching my Windows 7 Boot Disk from D to C with BCDBoot rather than BCDEdit
• Running a Subversion Server off your Windows Home Server
• Virtual Camaraderie – A Persistent Video “Portal” for the Remote Worker
• Upgrading my Lenovo W500 to a OCZ Vertex 250GB SATA II Solid State Disk (SSD)
• Step-By-Step: Turning a Windows 7 DVD or ISO into a Bootable VHD Virtual Machine
• Step-By-Step: How To “Upgrade” from Windows XP to Windows 7
• Scott Hanselman’s 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
• Herding Cats: Organize your Desktop Icons with Stardock Fences for Windows
• Get those pixels working for you

Blogging

• Don’t Give Bile a Permalink – Finding Balance within The No Asshole Rule
• These are the little bugs that lead to madness

Twitter

• How To Twitter – First Steps and a Twitter Glossary
• When Word of Mouth Got a Permalink – Companies, Customers and Twitter
• Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You

Podcasts

• Week Three in South Africa – Scott talks to his Wife, Ntombenhle and Hanselminutes Podcast 153 – Scott’s Wife Mo interviews Scott Hanselman
• Hanselminutes Podcast 145 – SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob – Robert C. Martin
• Hanselminutes Podcast 161 – BBSs and Wildcat! from Mustang Software
• Hanselminutes Podcast 166 – Windows Presentation Foundation explained by Ian Griffiths – I still get mail on this podcasts saying it was the best episode we’ve ever done. The credit for this goes squarely to Ian.
• “Hanselminutes on 9” – I did lots of fun videos for Channel 9 this year and I was very proud of these.

Programming

• Hanselminutes Podcast 145 – SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob – Robert C. Martin (ya, twice. It’s a good show)
• Real World Apps in Days not Weeks
• Back to Basics: 32-bit and 64-bit confusion around x86 and x64 and the .NET Framework and CLR
• Mix: Getting my head around Oslo, M and MGrammar
• The Weekly Source Code 39 – Commodore 64 Emulator in Silverlight 3
• The Weekly Source Code 40 – TweetSharp and Introducing Tweet Sandwich
• Breaking All The Rules with WCF
• Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7
• The Weekly Source Code 45 – Kicking Butt on Windows 7 *and* Windows XP
• Programming for Absolute Beginners
• Light it Up: List of Applications that use new Windows 7 Features

.NET and ASP.NET

• ASP Dynamic Data Preview – More ways to exploit ADO.NET Data Services for fun and profit
• Splitting DateTime – Unit Testing ASP.NET MVC Custom Model Binders
• ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!)
• C# 4 and the dynamic keyword – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1
• ASP 4 – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1
• MultiBrowser or CrossBrowser Testing and deconstructing Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview

Gadgets and Product Reviews

• A year with an Amazon Kindle (and new Kindle Cases)
• Accidental Prescience and the Secrets of Project Natal
• It’s a Man-Bag – Muzetto Laptop Messenger Bag Review
• Review – Mophie Juice Pack (not the Juice Pack Air)
• Review: Mimo Monitors – iMo Pivot
• Review: Trying Clear from Clearwire – Mobile Broadband Service
• Review and Comparison: Microsoft LifeCam Cinema HD and VX-7000 with High Quality Video in Skype and Live Messenger
• Herding Cats: Organize your Desktop Icons with Stardock Fences for Windows
• Screenshots: Amazon Kindle 2 gets Better Battery Life and Native PDF Support
• Review: Zeo Personal Sleep Coach
• The (Near) Final Word on Multi-Monitor Taskbars for Windows 7 – Ultramon vs. DisplayFusion

Speaking and Presentations

• Mix 09 – First Half Rollup and Session Videos
• Mix: Mobile Web Sites with ASP.NET MVC and the Mobile Browser Definition File
• Social Networking for Developers – Conference Talk Video
• The HaaHa Show visits .NET Rocks
• Videos from the Norwegian Developer’s Conference
• Oredev Keynote – Information Overload and Managing the Flow: Effectiveness and Efficiency
• Oredev 2009 – LIVE (now recorded) Closing Panel Video

Personal Stuff and LifeHacks

• South Africa 2008: NewsFlash – Turns out eating less and moving more causes weight loss
• Technical Presentations: Be Prepared for Absolute Chaos
• Baby Sign Language 2.0 – Update at 14 months
• Paint Fence, Cut Wood, Pull Weed, Plant Tree – Finding Geek Balance Outside My Comfort Zone
• Building your own Arcade Cabinet for Geeks – Part 7 – Success and Conclusion
  1. 1. Cabinet and Power
     2. Monitor and Mounting
     3. Control Panel
     4. Sound and Lights
     5. Paint and Art
     6. Computer Hardware and Software
     7. Success and Conclusion
  • The Complete Series
• Best Practices for Individual Contribution
• Burnt Day – I need a Do-Over for Monday
• Square Foot Gardening for Programmers
• The Three Most Important Outlook Rules for Processing Mail

Some interesting articles..

I’d like to keep links to some of interesting articles for future reference…

• Command Line Parsing on Windows with Mono.Options
• Windows 7 Ribbon for WinForms
• Execution plan operations – joins
• Automatic Null Checks
• Overview of C# 4.0
• How to Get a Stack Trace from C# without throwing Exception
• More On The Death of If-Else
• Pivoting DataTable Simplified
• Convert a List<> Into XML using LINQ
• Aspect Oriented Programming – your good friend
• DI Patterns: Constructor Injection
• Garbage Collection in .NET – How it really works
• Reflection on a method with an out parameter
• List of Top 50 free applications for Windows
• Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials
• Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure
• Martin Fowler on Passive View
• 5 Very Useful C# Attributes
• Using AutoMapper’s Custom Formatters
• Guidelines for consistent exception handling
• 66+ Free Cheat Sheets

Articles on MVVW

Following are a few articles about MVVM pattern and some of frameworks in development.

• Learning Prism (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) MVVM Fundamentals
• A ChildWindow management service for MVVM applications
• A quick tour of existing MVVM frameworks
• MVVM Study: Part 1 – MVVM: Philosophy and Case Studies – Introduction; Part 2 – “View of the Model” or “Model of the View” ?;  Part 3 – Why?; Part 4: Naked WPF; Part 5: Convention over Configuration
• WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern
• Model View ViewModel – Wikipedia
• What MVVM framework are you using?
• CoreMVVM – A Simple MVVM Framework
• Cinch : A Rich Full Featured WPF MVVM Framework
• GalaSoft – MVVM Light Toolkit
• Jason Dolinger on Model-View-ViewModel (video)
• Getting Started with the MVVM Pattern in Silverlight Applications
• Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Explained

MVVM with Prism 101:

• Part 1: The Bootstrapper
• Part 2: The Shell
• Part 3: Regions
  • Part 3b: View Injection and The Controller Pattern
• Part 4: Modules
• Part 5: The View-Model
  • Part 5b: ServiceLocator vs Dependency Injection
• Part 6: Commands

Cinch : A Rich Full Featured WPF MVVM Framework

A set of articles on Ruby

Following are a set of articles on Ruby:

• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C#: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7
• Getting IronRuby Up and Running
• Running Applications in IronRuby
• Using IronRuby To Implement Dynamic Business Rules
• Improve your C# with IronRuby
• IronRuby Tip: Using Generic CLR Methods from IronRuby
• Tip: How To Use Generic .Net Classes in IronRuby
• IronRuby script engine in C#
• IronRuby Quick Start
• Rolling with Ruby on Rails
• IronRuby .NET Integration
• 34 Ruby on Rails 3 resources to get you started
• Ruby on Rails Tutorial