Finds of the Week – February 17, 2008

.NET

• For Resharper users: Goto Type supports title caps and wildcards. Joe White wrote about it here.
• Paulo Reichert provided a good tutorial on how to implement your own configuration sections using .NET 2.0’s ConfigurationElement/ConfigurationElementCollection/ConfigurationSection.
• There is a Richmond Geek Dinner this coming Tuesday. Organized by Justin Etheredge.
• You can now download .NET source code without using the debugger. Via Marguee de Sells.
• Mark Gregory Turansky explained why "Code complete" does not mean "done".
• Scott Hanselman put together another one of his very useful lists… this time it’s a list of Visual Studio themes.
• Don’t miss Kyle Beyer’s Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications.
• How to Achieve Operational Overloading in WCF. Dinesh Tawar.
• Roy Osherove proposed that someone comes up with unified API for testing and mock framworks like ADO.NET for database access. Hmm Microsoft and Scott Guthrie, are you listening?
• Building WCF Services for Deployment in Transiently Connected Networks. By Rick Garibay.

Software and Tools

• Looking for a free sharepoint host? You can get a free sharepoint account with 5MB disk space, 5 users from Frontpages Web Hosting Network. Link is here.

Gadgets

• The HD format war is over. I am waiting for Blu-ray players go go down to the $150 range before I’ll get one.

And Now, Something A Little Different

• If you are the type who crack sarcastic jokes a lot: you may want to read this.
• I predict that this prediction on machine intelligence will be way off the mark.