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Five recommendations for starting a startup with ASP.NET

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:16:03 GMT

Here are five practical pieces of advice for developers who want to build a web startup, and use ASP.NET to do it.

I might be an elitist, but you're a misanthrope

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:01:03 GMT

Expresses some of the frustration that comes with a fragmented .NET community; our wobbly triangle of gurus, thought leaders, and the massive base of people who we've let down, in a way, by selling the idea that the tools should do all the work, and drag-and-dropped our colleagues into an expectation of laziness, or at least lulled them into a reluctance to learn new things, which is death to our whole community over the long-run.

From Developer to Technical Manager

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:16:03 GMT

Organizations with an outdated organizational structure have got to wake up and change before it's too late. They will either lose or ruin their people. Either way, the company loses because people are the company.

How DotNetKicks posts are being ripped off for other sites!

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:01:02 GMT

How posts from DotNetKicks are being copy-and-pasted wholesale into other sites. Is your hard work blogging just being stolen for other companies traffic?

Friendly "maintenance" page for your ASP.NET application

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:31:02 GMT

ScottGu demonstrates a nice and easy way to show a maintenance page for your ASP.NET application while you're working on it.

The DotNetKicks Effect

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:31:02 GMT

An overview of traffic coming from DotNetKicks when an article makes it to the front page.

Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

A list of some things to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications.

20 Famous Software Disasters

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." -Paul Ehrlich

Why Microsoft Will Win, and Dominate the Web.

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

Is Silverlight a Flash killer? No. Is it intended to be? Nope. It's much more than that. Will you still see flash animations on sites? Absolutely. But, will you see real applications on the web, built in "AJAX"/Flash? Nope, they will be built using Silverlight. Dare I say, you might someday see Flash running on top of Silverlight! Why not?

Microsoft Proposes Yahoo Acquisition

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:16:01 GMT

This just in - Microsoft has proposed to acquire Yahoo for $31 per share in a $44B deal.

Creating a transparent Panel in .NET

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:01:02 GMT

Today I wanted to create a transparent Panel-Control in .NET in order to superimpose it on the WebBrowser Control in order to record click events. The goal was to code a simple macro recorder for websites. Unfortunatelly the .NET framework does not allow (in an easy way) to make a control fully transparent. So it was back to the good ol' winuser.h and the extended window styles. Namely 0x00000020L or as it is better known WS_EX_TRANSPARENT.

8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:31:02 GMT

An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Speaking as a developer who spent his university years studying among other developers, I can safely say that programmers are not designers.

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:31:02 GMT

ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster. Furthermore, ASP.NET Http pipeline can be tweaked to avoid executing unnecessary code that gets hit on each and every request...

Confessions of a Software Developer

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Has anybody else ever felt overwhelmed with the sheer mass of "stuff" involved with software development?

Top 5 Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:46:02 GMT

Just an essential article. I would like to add "discipline" to this list.

Telligent Launches Brilliant Marketing Campaign for .NET-Based CMS "Gr

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:48:55 GMT

This story goes over the ad campaign of Telligent for their new Dot Net based Graffiti CMS and how they "based" Wordpress. Telligent turned a non-open source product into a buzz when it slammed Wordpress. Graffiti is based on dot net and some people took their ad to mean that php is unsafe. Good write up about the stink and why it matters.

Google Charts in .Net

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:46:23 GMT

Google Provided an open API for generating the charts which can be used in our commercial web applications. We can generate various graphs using the google chart api. The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. To see the Chart API in action, open up a browser window and copy the following URL into it: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=s:hW&chs=250x100&chl=Hello|World The following types of charts are available:

HowTo: SubSonic Introduction

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:16:02 GMT

SubSonic introduction with examples

So Much for the Optimization

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:16:02 GMT

Don't optimize prematurely your code, here's why.

Essential Graphic Design Tools for .NET Developers

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:46:07 GMT

Use Paint.NET, BluePrint CSS Framework, and the ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Adapters to quickly chalk up an ASP-Driven user interface.

Net Coder.net Domain Name for Sale

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:33:07 GMT

Now, I know what you're thinking... this guy must be mad! Well, I'm not and the figures speak for themselves... How about Britneyskids.com for a cool $995,000?

New BlogEngine Theme - Bright Side of Life

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Very nice theme for BlogEngine

Wild New Blog Engine Them: Discovery from FreeCSSTemplates.org

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:46:02 GMT

I have converted their Discovery theme to a BlogEngine Theme. You can download it free on my blog.

Should I Blog?

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:31:01 GMT

Reasons why you should start a blog

Quake 3 Arena Ported to .NET Managed C++ VS 2008!

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Quake III Arena has been ported to Managed C++ .NET under Visual Studio 2008. Check out article for source code download.