Creating a Simple Site Wide User Notification Pattern

published 6 months, 10 days ago, submitted by kayos 6 months, 11 days ago

blog.reamped.net — When creating websites, it seems that one problem I always run into is how to gracefully notify the user of errors or display messages to them. In most of my sites I use master pages, so I thought it would be pretty sweet to integrate a messaging pattern into my master pages. read more...

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Quick and Dirty Memory Utility Methods

vonsharp.net — Ever curious how much memory that suspect object is hogging on the heap? Find out quickly and easily with a few lines of code. read more...

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Silverlight 2.0 (beta 1) Controls Screenshot

published 6 months, 11 days ago, submitted by DannyDouglass 6 months, 12 days ago

dannydouglass.com — SilverlightShow has a nice post up detailing the controls that will be available in the Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 release. The news was originally posted on Shawn Burke's blog, but it appears that the he was forced to take down the screen shot. Thanks to SilverlightShow that graphic is still visible and is also now posted on my blog. Exciting stuff! read more...

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Quick And Simple DependencyInjection With StructureMap

published 6 months, 11 days ago, submitted by dengar007 6 months, 12 days ago

frickinsweet.com — A very quick guide to IoC using StructureMap. read more...

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Writing Maintainable Code Considered Harmful

itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com — Reasons on why developers should not write maintainable code read more...

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What I Learned About MVC On Day One

published 6 months, 10 days ago, submitted by zigamorph 6 months, 13 days ago

coderjournal.com — I am really blown back about how fast and easy MVC is to develop with. I know the guys at Microsoft do a good job with their .NET coding, but I am really impressed by the forethought they put in to MVC. It builds on top of the standard ASP.NET package, but does it in such a way that makes it lean on top of the already feature-rich (read bloated) ASP.NET Page object. It really doesn’t feel like I have all that baggage anymore. read more...

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.NET 3.5 Brings Major (Undocumented) Changes to ThreadPool

published 6 months, 13 days ago, submitted by simoneb 6 months, 13 days ago

michaelckennedy.net — Interesting information about the new behavior of the thread pool in .NET 3.5. read more...

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Google Lets You “Chatback” With Your Visitors

published 6 months, 11 days ago, submitted by zigamorph 6 months, 13 days ago

coderjournal.com — I love Google Talk. I love it because of its light foot print both on my hard drive and when running in memory. I love the integration with all my Google services. And I love the flexibility that it provides. However the Google Talk team just gave me another reason to love Google Talk. It now allows me to have direct conversations with my visitors with a simple click of the mouse on the chat bubble you see to your left. read more...

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