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Your language deficiency is not a feature

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:15:53 GMT

We all love to defend out languages of choice, but isn't it about time we fessed up and admitted that all languages have problems?

Annoucing AutoTest.NET 0.1

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:46:04 GMT

A .NET version of the popular ruby program autotest. AutoTest.NET watches your code and whenever you save it builds your code and runs your tests right away.

Microsoft Unveils Sync Framework to Improve Collaboration Technologies

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:01:03 GMT

New data synchronization components from Microsoft are designed to ease the process of connecting applications across both computing devices and services.

Visual Studio 2008 to RTM in Movember

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:16:02 GMT

Mary Jo Foley published the big news - Visual Studio 2008 RTM - early this morning. It follows the Microsoft press release. This is big news and I'm forced to believe that Microsoft aligned this historical release to coincide with Movember.

SubSonic: MVC Preview Video

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:46:02 GMT

Rob Conery has created a short screencast showing ASP.MVC and SubSonic.

MyGeneration 1.3 Beta - The 100% Free Code Generator

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:31:02 GMT

The first official MyGeneration since it has gone open source on SourceForge.net under the BSD licensing model is coming soon. There are some very cool new features as well. First, and very importantly, you can now install the new MyGeneration side-by-side with the MyGeneration 1.2.0.7 release that is on Download.com. MyGeneration is still going strong with over 100,000 downloads on download.com and MyGeneration already ranks 172nd on SourceForge.net. Many have joined in on the project. MyGeneration is getting much more powerful, please help us keep this wonderful, totally free, code generation tool moving forward. Many have done so and we thank you. The next EntitySpaces beta we put out will support this version of MyGeneration also.

.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:31:03 GMT

The .NET Framework 3.5 Commonly Used Types and Namespaces poster

Embracing Fluent Interfaces - Ayende's Response to Jeff Atwood

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:02:57 GMT

"Jeff Atwood is talking about languages in languages, and suggest that you would avoid using fluent interfaces to hide a language semantics. I completely disagree."

3 hot uses for HttpContext.Current.Items "They" won't tell you about.

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:16:02 GMT

HttpContext.Current.Items, arcane enough to give you guru-cred to the mid-range noobs, simple enough that it can be leveraged for good and / or evil. Awesome. 3 Tips for using it that aren't entirely obvious.

Dangers of the new ASP.NET MVC framework

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:31:13 GMT

Will the new MVC framework split the ASP.NET community in 2? One following the "stardard" WebForm paradigma and one following the more "strict" approach?

You too can fail fast (or at least really quickly)

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:31:03 GMT

A description of contract first programming and what it means to have a fail-fast system.

I'm Really Digging F#

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:46:04 GMT

An article that shows the elegance, power and brevity of Microsoft's F# language.

Silverlight doesn't require any JavaScript

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:16:02 GMT

Jon shows that you don't need javascript to display silverlight in the browser and he then goes on the explain what the silverlight js files are doing.