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ASP.NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Wrox Blox

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:46:02 GMT

Wally's book on the new features of ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 in now available for sale as PDF eBook.

Windows Azure Blob Storage

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:16:03 GMT

A video on Blob Storage with Windows Azure.

Cloud Computing in General

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:31:02 GMT

Cloud Computing in General with Wally McClure and David Penton. Scott Cate is our guest as we discuss cloud computing in general and some specifics with CloudDB.com.

Geek Food Drive

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:31:03 GMT

More than 35.5 million people in the United States and Canada will go hungry during the holidays. The Challenge: For all user groups to hold a food drive at their meeting this month. There is plenty of need, especially this year!

WomenBuild - Geek Girls Playing With Legos at the MSDN Developer Confe

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:16:23 GMT

Inforation on the WomenBuild Event being held at this year's MSDN Developer Conference

ASP.NET Podcast Show #127 - Dynamic Data

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:01:13 GMT

A short overview of the Dynamic Data that is shipped in .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1.

ASP.NET Podcast Show #128 - AJAX with jQuery

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:01:05 GMT

A quick example of using AJAX with jQuery.

27 Free Must-have Online Collaboration Tools

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:46:12 GMT

hese days teams can be dispersed all over the globe. With outsourcing, telecommuting, distance learning and complex project collaboration, it's often helpful to have tools that can assist with the various collaborative tasks need to be done by dispersed teams. I've put together a great list of 27 free...

Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:46:03 GMT

Programmers all have their personal pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, there are certain nuisances that we must put up with in our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow along with some of my own experiences as a programmer:

Amazing Female Bloggers â?" Part One

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:59:11 GMT

Dana Coffey interviews 3 female tech bloggers

10 Invaluable CSS Resources

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:01:13 GMT

First things first. I'm an application (middle tier) developer. My design skills while adequate, are not by any means what I'd like them to be. Like a good geek girl, I've been working on this. I've put together a list of very helpful CSS resources I've stumbled upon in my quest to improve my presentation layer skills. I thought I'd share them:

ASP.NET gets no Respect

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:16:11 GMT

Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!

Publish Graffiti Blog Entries Using MS Word 2007

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:50:29 GMT

How to use Microsoft Word 2007 to publish blog entries in Graffiti CMS

Using data from GraffitiCMS Blog Extensions in Posts

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:01:58 GMT

Example of how to expose the trackback data from the Graffiti Blog extensions in a Graffiti theme

How to easily enhance your existing tables with simple CSS

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:01:02 GMT

A detailed example of how to use CSS to style an HTML table. The example is specifically focused on styling a table generated on the client-side via AJAX, but is applicable to any HTML table.

From Wordpress Theme to Graffiti Theme in X Easy Steps

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:46:08 GMT

Converting a (free) Wordpress theme for use in Graffiti CMS

Free Graffiti Themes

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:43:42 GMT

Four Free Themes for Graffiti CMS

Chalk Extension for .NET Kick It Button

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:46:56 GMT

Quick Chalk extension for Graffiti CMS that generates a Kick It Button for a Graffiti Site

Keep Your Link-Juice by Using a Custom HTTP Module for 301 Redirects

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:46:18 GMT

In my process of turning www.aspforblondes.com into www.crazeegeekchick.com I had some concerns regarding broken links, search engine rank etc. I decided to write an ASP.NET custom HTTP Module to achieve my goals. After reading tons of information about 301 permanent redirects.

Creating Extender Controls with the AJAX Control Toolkit

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:16:01 GMT

Paul Glavich walks thru creating extender controls with the AJAX Control Toolkit.

An Introduction to Web Development Using the Ruby on Rails Framework

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:31:01 GMT

You have heard about Ruby on Rails and you don't know what it looks like? This article presents the basic concepts used by this popular web development framework

ASP.NET Podcast - Interview with Matt Gibbs

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:01:02 GMT

Matt Gibbs, Development Manager with the ASP.NET AJAX group, is interviewed regarding the recent release of the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Product.

12 HTML Tags You May Not Know (Or May Have Forgotten)

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:16:01 GMT

Here are some lesser-known and lesser-used valid, non-deprecated (X)HTML tags that may be helpful the next time you're developing a website.