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Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:45:00 GMT

Simone posts the results of the survey about ajax adoption among .NET developers. jQuery gained 58% since 2007 and now is almost tied to the MS Ajax stack (Control toolkit and ajax core)

Abandon ASP.NET WebForms!

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:45:01 GMT

Interesting experiance with classic web forms....

The Most Powerful Development Tool Ever Made

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:00:03 GMT

Justin Etheredge wrote a great blog post about not inventing the wheel everytime a classic programming problem shows up.

Should We Return Null From Our Methods?

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:15:06 GMT

I read a interesting article recently about the potential perils of Null Check Hell. The author's suggestion? Stop allowing any of your methods to return nulls, ever . No nulls returned, no null checks necessary. Problem solved, right?

Going in production as often as you can

Fri, 29 May 2009 12:07:18 GMT

I really care the concept of "going in production", because it is the moment when the software bring to life. Going in production can be sometimes a really difficult thing to do, and there are a lot of reasons behind it.

Live Twitter stream of notable people in the .NET community

Tue, 26 May 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Built with ASP.NET MVC, jQuery and TweetSharp

Castle Windsor WCF Services Resolution Facility

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:03:35 GMT

How to write a Castle Windsor facility that allows you to create WCF Services proxies based on Services INterfaces registered in the IoC container.

Rarely used C# Keywords

Sun, 17 May 2009 17:31:02 GMT

When doing code reviews or when working with code that was developed by someone else, once in a while I come across keywords that are rarely used. Some of them are forgotten keywords that are not considered a good practice and hence are not promoted by the community. Some of them could be handy and efficient but they never made it to the limelight.

jQuery to the rescue - some numbers

Fri, 15 May 2009 22:49:38 GMT

... I immediately notice is that the old version does a lot of traffic. Since the new version only does GET reques it reduces the upload payload from 178k to zero !!!!!

More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices

Wed, 06 May 2009 21:16:02 GMT

In this post, I'll share some of the best practices and guidelines which I have come across while developing ASP.NET MVC web applications. I will not cover all best practices that are available, instead add some specific things that have not been mentioned in any blog post out there. Existing best practices can be found on Kazi Manzur Rashid's blog and Simone Chiaretta's blog.

GZip and Deflate Compression Filter for ASP.Net MVC

Wed, 06 May 2009 01:22:32 GMT

I'd previously created a compression processor for dynamic content - using this excellent post for QValues by Dave Transom. Also just just discovered this post on creating an action filter for compression by Kazi Manzur Rashid.

Castle Windsor 2.0 RTM Released!

Tue, 05 May 2009 13:46:04 GMT

Some would say that it is about time, I would agree. Windsor might not be the OSS project in pre release state for the longest time (I think that the honor belong to Hurd), but it spent enough time at that state to at least deserve a honorary mention. f you will look, you won't find Windsor 1.0, only release candidates for 1.0. As I believe I mentioned, Windsor has been production ready for a long time, and for the full release we decided to skip the 1.0 designator, which doesn't really fit, and go directly to 2.0

4 Grea Tips for Custom WPF Controls Developers

Tue, 05 May 2009 14:31:02 GMT

4 great tips for WPF Custom control designers

Java versus .Net programmers

Fri, 01 May 2009 09:16:08 GMT

I think that there is the right tool for each problem and I always worry about the syndrome of "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". There are such a great amount of different techniques in programming science, that we cannot reduce everything to the classic "DI IOC AOP ORM".

Top 10 .NET Twitterers

Sat, 02 May 2009 13:46:11 GMT

If your not on Twitter you are missing out - here are some .NET tweeps to get you started.

ASP.NET MVC brings FUN back inside web development, on .NET

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:01:03 GMT

Simone writes about his impressions on ASP.NET MVC and why it has reactivated the motivation of developers on the .NET community for web development.

I Spose I'll Just Say It: Still Waiting For a GOOD Reason to Learn MVC

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:31:13 GMT

Why you shouldn't learn MVC Earlier today Rob Connery posted about why he thinks You Should Learn MVC. Rob is a great guy and we always have lively discussions whenever we meet at conferences. I was in the middle of writing a long comment on his blog when I decided it might be better as it's own post.

How to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial perf: don't run in debug mode

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:01:01 GMT

There has a been a lot of talking on a possible "big design flaw" in ASP.NET MVC: partial view path resolution was not cached. After a bit of testing I found out that caching kicks in only in release mode. So probably all the other tests were run in debug mode.

Should You Use ASP.NET MVC?

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:01:03 GMT

There are a lot of ASP.NET web forms developers out there that admit that they don't "get it" when it comes to all the hubbub surrounding ASP.NET MVC. In some ways, I can sympathize with them. The vocal minority that raves about ASP.NET MVC gush about it with such zeal that they make it sound like you'd have to be a fool not to switch over. But in actuality, the decision isn't nearly as black and white. There has been talk about how the ASP.NET MVC framework is a web forms killer (despite the objections from those creating it), and if you listened only to them you would think that ASP.NET web forms development was done for -- cast to the wayside as an obsolete framework suitable only for amateur drag-and-drop developers.

Ditching the Micro-Optimization Fetish

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:01:02 GMT

Seems like today is the day for performance optimization talks: in String.Empty, in calls to ActionLinks, in high-performance IoC containers. But people sometimes miss the point that these are micro-optimizations: thanks God Justin tries to bring a bit of sanity in this geeky world of micro-optimization

How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:46:04 GMT

Today I stumbled upon a nice presentation that Rudi Benkovic gave last week at the Slovenian DotNet User Group, about ASP.NET MVC Performances. It is an in depth analysis of a Digg-like site and how it went from serving (on a test machine) 6 req/sec to 390 req/sec. The analysis prove the usual rule of performance optimization: no matter what you do to optimize your code, the biggest performance hit is data retrieval, and the first thing you have to optimize is always this. But apart from this obvious outcome, I just want to take out from this presentation the 3 point that are really specific to ASP.NET MVC

Just say No! to C# Regions

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:01:02 GMT

You need a language construct so that your IDE can help you hide your big messy code block from you (because it's just so hideous, you don't even want to look at it anymore)?

Using jQuery Grid With ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:31:02 GMT

Continuing in my pseudo-series of posts based on my ASP.NET MVC Ninjas on Fire Black Belt Tips Presentation at Mix (go watch it!), this post covers a demo I did not show because I ran out of time. It was a demo I held in my back pocket just in case I went too fast and needed one more demo. A common scenario when building web user interfaces is providing a pageable and sortable grid of data. Even better if it uses AJAX to make it more responsive and snazzy. Since ASP.NET MVC includes jQuery, I figured it'd be fun to use a jQuery plugin for this demo, so I chose jQuery Grid.

Send attachments with jQuery

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:01:03 GMT

This little post shows how to send attachment to the server with ajax and jQuery

5 blogs every asp.net programmer should know analyzed with 31-DBBB day

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:01:12 GMT

31-DBBB day 4 task is to analyze leader blogs in your niche. I do so here with some recommendation I hope you'll enjoy