Comic for December 22, 2010

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deja vu

Using JSON.NET as a default serializer in WCF HTTP/Web/REST (vNext) - Christian Weyer's Blog

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Just yesterday a client walked up to me and asked how to replace the default JSON serializer in WCF’s web programming model (whether in .NET 3.5 or 4.0). Honestly, this is not too easy – if you aim at adding a different JSON engine - like the wonderful JSON.NET – to the WCF pipeline you won’t have too much fun. A lot of plumbing works needs to be done. A more practical approach is to use Message or Stream as the response/request type and apply the serialization/deserialization inside the service façade operation implementation. I thought there should be an easier...

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Yesterday's news | What's new in NHibernate 3.0 GA

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LINQ provider seems pretty limited. QueryOver seems pretty cool though

Brown bags, Circles, Top Code and Lanterns: Knowledge Management in Scrum - a session at Øredev 2010

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This company seems serious about training their employees.

19 1/2 Things to Make You a Better Object Oriented Programmer - Greg Young on Vimeo

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I feel like I only understood about 30% of that. I think I am an OO newbie. He recommends reading the OO books from the 80s by people like Booch or Meyer.

Agile Release Planning from Top to Bottom - a session at Øredev 2010

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Oredev talk. Interesting ideas on stories vs MMFs. Really cool risk adjusted burn up chart.

Math Geek Coder: Advanced Domain Model queries using Linq

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Apparently a lot of people have tried to solve this problem.

C# 4.0/3.0 in a Nutshell - LINQKit

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Wow. Even more powerful.

Client-side properties and any remote LINQ provider » DamienG

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A .NET developer in Redmond

Cool way to get properties to translate to SQL