Good Links, May 25, 2009

Customers Connected Engineering (CCE): It is a way to build software with customers engaged in all phases of the Software development life cycle. its aim is “Software Built with customers, for customers”  http://shapingsoftware.com/2009/05/19/customer-connected-engineering/

Good Links , May 18, 2009

VS 2010 and .NET FW 4.0 Beta 1 released: http://samgentile.com/Web/vs2010-and-net-framework-4-0/visual-studio-2010-and-net-framework-4-beta-1-available-today/

Preview of the new features in VS2010:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/05/18/announcing-vs2010-net-framework-4-0-beta-1.aspx

CodeRush now free: http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/CodeRushX/

Good Links, May 15, 2009

30 HTML Best Practices for Beginners: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/30-html-best-practices-for-beginners/

30+ Eye-Opening Web Development Screen casts: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/30-eye-opening-web-development-screencasts/

20 More Explosive Web Development Screen casts: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/20-more-explosive-web-development-screencasts/

Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/design-a-beautiful-website-from-scratch/

8 Characteristics Of Successful User Interfaces: http://www.usabilitypost.com/2009/04/15/8-characteristics-of-successful-user-interfaces/

JQuery for absolute beginners video series: http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/jquery-for-absolute-beginners-video-series/

Generating Script to reproduce Database Schema AND data

Many times we need a script that reproduces a database schema along with some data; example: lookup tables values.

Turned out it can be done quite easily with the Publishing wizard that is a standard part of the Visual studio 2008.

All you need to do is open the database in the server explorer, right click on the database and select “Publish to provider”.

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Royalty free Icons

Free set of icons related to project management: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/27/project-icon-set-for-free-download/

Free icons set called “Bright” : http://min.frexy.com/article/bright_a_free_icon_set/

More free icons set from the same author:

http://min.frexy.com/article/milky_a_free_vector_icon_set_part_1/

http://min.frexy.com/article/milky_a_free_vector_icon_set_part_2/

http://min.frexy.com/article/milky_a_free_vector_icon_set_part_3/

http://min.frexy.com/article/milky_a_free_vector_icon_set_part_4/

Free set of icons related to financial items: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/09/finance-and-applications-a-free-icon-set/

WPF MVVM Toolkit

Newly released WPF MVVM Toolkit : http://wpf.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=WPF%20Model-View-ViewModel%20Toolkit 

An Advanced MSDN Article explaining the MVVM Pattern: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx

And a Channel 9 Video about MVVM: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Continuum/MVVM/