Codeguru Update eNewsletter – January 7th, 2009

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Tuesday January 6, 2009



This Week’s Topics






Comments from the Editor

It is hard to believe that it is already
2009. I remember when the book 2001: A Space Odyssey seemed like a distant
future. The follow-up book focusing on 2010 seemed even farther away. In
another year, both dates will be in the history books. Unfortunately, it
looks like our space technology won’t be even close to what either story
suggested.

Here on Earth, however, there is one key thing to note. In 2008,
Codeguru had a lot of great articles published by many of our members just
like you. Some of our top articles of the year include (in no specific
order):


Kudos to these authors for their submissions. These were among the
highest read articles that were contributed in 2008. It will be
interesting to see what topics and authors reach the top in 2009. Maybe
you can even make the list by submitting an article!

Until next week…

Brad!
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Bradley L. Jones
www.CodeGuru.com
[email protected]
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Recently Published Books

For those of you keeping up by reading
books. The following are just a few of the new books that have been
recently released. If you’ve read any of these, feel free to write a
review to be posted on CodeGuru. See the submission
guidelines
.


Eclipse
Rich Ajax Platform: Bringing Rich Client to the
Web

By Fabian Lange
for Apress
288 pages for $19.99


Simply
SQL

By Rudy
Limeback for SitePoint
350 pages for $35.95



New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru

Following are short descriptions of new
articles on CodeGuru. If you are interested in submitting your own article
for inclusion on the site, then you will find guidelines here.


Adding
Standard Deviation to LINQ

By Chris Bennett
Learn how to implement a simple Standard
Deviation function for LINQ (Language Integrated Query).


VIDEO: Create Custom Task Lists in SharePoint
Designer

By Garry
Robinson
Create a Custom Task List in Microsoft SharePoint Designer


BLOG:
Z2K – The Importance of Quality Assurance and
Testing

By Brad
Jones
Is the Microsoft Zune Crash indicative of poor testing?



Discussion Groups

Check
out the CodeGuru discussion forums

Forums include Visual C++, General C++,
Visual Basic, Java, General Technology, C#, ASP.NET, XML, Help Wanted, and
much, much, more!

… HOT THREADS …


C++
Connection Pooling not working, Using ADO (C++)


Datatables
and relations (C#)


Saving
data using save button (VB 6)



New Articles on Developer.com

Connecting
to IBM FileNet 4.0 Outside of a Java Application
Server

By Anthony
Lee
Learn about IBM FileNet 4.0 and how to use its Java API to connect
to an enterprise Content and Business Process Management product.


Wrapping
Up the SimpleTurtle Class: Multimedia Programming with
Java

By Richard G.
Baldwin
Learn more about the methods and the properties of a Turtle
object from Ericson’s Java multimedia library.


The
Mono 2.0 Offerings for Debian GNU/Linux
(From
DevX.com)

By Roberto
Giorgetti
Find out how much of the Mono 2.0 (and beyond) platform is
available for Debian users who want up-to-date .NET compatibility.

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