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Five days ago I got a great email from 101 Free Tech Books. Seems the drawing I wrote about is real!!

Yes, I won a FREE print book. Filled in my shipping information yesterday and got the post that confirms my order was being processed. Feels so real! I’m even asked to give testimonials after receiving the book, which I will…

Which Book?

The book I have chosen is “Professional WCF 4: Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4”. Sounded like a great title!

There is a trick in here. The option for books is only available from my wish list prior to the random drawing. I didn’t pay enough attention to this earlier, so, had a very small wish list of just “sample” books in it. Some of them I already had as ebooks. This was not very right.

I also tried to choose another book, add to my wish list, and go back to choosing again, but, as mentioned, only the books added prior to wining were there. Makes sense though!

You Can Win Too!

Now, I can recommend those people even more! They emphasize completely on showing how real this is, and I seem to believe them so far.

Here’s another email from the internal mailing list of Injazat .NET Ninjas (Ninjazat, AKA  as we call ourselves), that I’m sharing with blog readers as well.

Just a place holder, until I move one of my 18 (just discovered the number now – terrifying!) drafts in my Windows Live Writer into a published post, or delete them all!

Subject: [Learning] Some very interesting videos

Some videos from NDC 2009 event (Norwegian Developers Conference 2009) – about software design and related issues:

· NDC Video – Robert Martin – S.O.L.I.D Principles of OO class design

· NDC Video – Robert Martin – Craftsmanship and Ethics

· NDC Video – Robert Martin – Component Principles

· NDC Video – Robert Martin – Clean Code III – Functions

· NDC Video – Michael Feathers – Working Effectively with Legacy Code

· NDC Video – Jeremy D. Miller – Convention Over Configuration

· NDC Video – Michael Feathers – Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design

· NDC Video – Ted Neward – WCF Patterns

· NDC Video: Michael Feathers – Design Sense

For the complete list of videos from this event check videos from:

Yet another internal .NET Team email in my current company, Injazat Data Systems, that I sent yesterday, and am sharing with you as well.

jQuery:

· Simplify calling ASP.NET AJAX services from jQuery

· Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to build a client side Repeater

· Reordering invoice lines using jqGrid and TableDND extension

· LA.NET jQuery Posts/Articles

Agile

· Implementing Scrum

ASP.NET

· Web Development With ASP.NET Learning Material (Course – Source: MSDN Ramp up Learning Program)

· ASP.NET Articles on CodeGain (Many Articles)

WCF

· Posting Twitter Tweets from ASP.NET using the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2

WF

· Migration Guidance for the WF Developer

o Part 1

o Part 2

Office Open XML

· Embedding Any File Type, Like PDF, in an Open XML File

Fun

· YoutTube: Windows Live Messenger 10th Anniversary Celebration Video

· 99 Amazing Widescreen Wallpapers To Spice Up Your Desktop

As usual, those and others are all originally shared on my Google Reader Shared Items:

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/08221036579558509505

Regards,

Happy weekend,

Allow me to quote here some emails I sent to the the Dot NET developers group in my company, Injazat, or, as we call ourselves, Ninjazat. I thought it’ll be useful to share some with you as well.

·         ASP.NET MVC – 20 Hours of FREE Video Tutorials

·         LINQ FAQ

o   LINQ FAQ for Newbie’s

o   LINQ FAQ Part 2

·         How we handle application configuration

·         ScottGu ASPNETMVC Session Video Available Now (Part 1/2 & 2/2)

·         Web Validation: Best Practices and Tutorials

·         Building a Single Sign On Provider Using ASPNET and WCF

o   Part 1

o   Part 2

o   Part 3

·         NxtGenUG Cambridge: Creating extendable applications using MEF slides and code

·         Dynamic Languages and .NET – Developer Day Scotland slides and code samples

·         patterns & practices: Data Access Guidance (VS 2010 Stuff)

·         Refactoring challenge

o   Part 1 – Examination

o   Part 2 – Preparation

·         LINQ is not LINQ To SQL

I found this great article that tells you how to do testing for WCF services exposed as web services, especially REST services (like the ones we create in my company for the project I work on now).

What’s the problem ?

Typically, for HTTP GET services, you can just put a URL that matches the URI template of the service (the template of the URLs that call the service) in the browser, and simply see what comes back in the browser itself

However, when you want to test a service with other HTTP verbs than GET (Say POST, PUT), you need a console that creates the HTTP request with headers and request body and such, because a browser normally has no way of making you create a new customized request (because it creates them for you and encapsulates the entire process of request/response).

Usually you write that console on your own. We wrote one for the current project but it didn’t serve all our needs.

The solution

There’s a program called “Fiddler” (Microsoft Freeware). This program works as proxy server that allows you to intercept and inspect requests and responses for all the web calls you do from your machine. This is very useful but as Firefox extensions do this for us, I haven’t personally installed it for a while.