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The "Sim City" effect

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:30:00 GMT

What happens when you turn your back on a software development project.

22 Visual Studio Short Keys and 6 Short-cut Ways to Custom Jobs

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:15:00 GMT

Efficient programmers use short keys in IDE like Visual Studio. This saves time and in many cases makes the work run faster also. I also love short keys. They are smart! And there also go some tricks that help make your visual studio days a party! I have listed here some short cuts and some tips with the hope that this will be helpful to you all.

Select from Excel (for SQL-Rejects)

Sat, 23 May 2009 21:13:00 GMT

This is DBA bread and butter - not being a DBA and having no will whatsoever to become one I always forget the syntax for this procedure, so here we go.

Visual Studio Tips and Tricks - II

Sun, 24 May 2009 20:05:01 GMT

Learn how to format your code better in Visual Studio

Why I prefer MVC

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:01:06 GMT

I tought about writing a post about why I prefer the MVC framework instead of the old .NET way, webforms, to build my webapplications. But today when I opened my google reader to check out the new posts, I saw this post by Rob Conery which I think has some very good arguments to why you should atleast try it out.

5 Blogs ASP.NET MVC Developers Should Be Following

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:46:07 GMT

Everyone knows that Phil Haack, Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, and Scott Guthrie all provide good ASP.NET MVC content on their blogs. I wanted to provide a list of excellent resources on ASP.NET MVC that are a little less well known.

Developers: Start Using WikiSearch

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:40:03 GMT

Wouldn't it be easier for everyone if we all started using WikiSearch?

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

Being a software startup in a recession

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:01:02 GMT

Lessons learned about being a software startup in a recession.

5 reasons why you should use ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:01:03 GMT

I'll be fair with you readers. I've only toyed with the ASP.NET MVC framework. It looks great as of now but it's the first full blown MVC framework that we have that is backed by Microsoft. However, there is a lot of opposition nowadays that tend to be formulated like this: Why should I use ASP.NET MVC? WebForms works well. Other problems come from the lack of server controls. When a developer look at that and he then wonder why he should have to write HTML and Javascript when before he could have retrieved all that beautiful information with a simple postback.

Definitive Javascript RegEx Validation

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:31:53 GMT

A few snippets to use as base in case of client validation with RegExes: brutally Copy-Paste and tailor to your needs!

Typing Monkeys and Genetic Algorithms in .NET

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:53:26 GMT

Recently I spent time playing with generic algorithms. I was looking for something easy enough to implement (read: PLAIN LAZY) when I found the "Hello World!" (literally) of genetic algorithms.

Indexing and Scalability Tips

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:50:51 GMT

Useful tips when 'scalability' hits the fan

SQL Server 2005 Management Studio tips

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:16:02 GMT

Two SQL 2005 Management Studio tips

[T-SQL] How to REPLACE on TEXT field

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:38:10 GMT

The REPLACE T-SQL function can be use only with VARCHAR - if you try to run REPLACE on a TEXT field you'll notice you're pretty much screwed.

Learn the Basics Before Programming

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:46:16 GMT

Simone Chiaretta wraps up the recent discussion on the community about the controversy opinions of building a software that only works versus building the software that has a high quality. After that, the leaves his own opinions on this.

Jeff Atwood Finally Jumps the Shark

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:46:04 GMT

Well, we all knew it had to happen eventually. After years of great blog posts and insightful commentary on the programming world, Jeff Atwood has finally jumped the shark in his latest post which essentially says "programming is hard, let's go shopping!"

Collapse all Projects in a Solution + How to Setup Macro

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:56:26 GMT

How many times have you been collapsing manually all the projects in your solution ranting about the fact there's no option to do that automatically?

Why Windows 7 Will Save Microsoft

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:16:02 GMT

I was doing some thinking over the past few weeks and I came to a realization. Windows 7, with all of it's improvements in performance, new features, and more streamlined development process, will actually save Microsoft and redeem them from the whole Vista crash. So I decided to write up WHY Windows 7 will tromp every previous Windows version and why we should pay close attention to it.

How many development feeds can you take?

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:39:27 GMT

At the moment I have 104 active subscriptions on my reader, mostly development stuff, and I can barely keep up. I do not really read all the stuff that gets posted - I scan with my eyes: the question is how much is too much (assuming you have a day-job) if you don't wanna go crazy?

How to boost 'joined' Update Performance

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:11:49 GMT

Time for some real boring stuff

Computer localhost does not exist on the network?!

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:44:35 GMT

Talk about useful error messages from SQL Server

20 People .NET Developers Should Follow on Twitter

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:31:04 GMT

If you are to follow some .NET people on Twitter... here are the top 20 that you should follow!

[T-SQL] How to get length of TEXT field

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:57:51 GMT

To calculate the lenght of a TEXT field the LEN function used to calculate the length of VARCHAR fields won't work

The IsNullOrEmpty() Story with C

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:49:58 GMT

Today i'm talking about the method IsNullOrEmpty that already exists on System.String class. We often need to use it on other types of objects like : StringBuilder All types of Collection that implementes ICollection Generic Collections Streams ... So in order to solve that issue here is a few set of IsNullOrEmpty Extension Method.