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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

Fluent NHibernate new style mappings - powerful semantics

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:01:06 GMT

So today I updated to the latest build of Fluent NHibernate. As any of you who might have done the same have discovered there are some breaking changes. I wasn't sure I liked the new class based conventions at first, especially since it wasn't clear at first how to tackle altering my mappings. Then it dawned on me how powerful the conventions would end up being while also promoting DRY.

Alt.Net Podcast: The State of IronRuby 2009

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:31:13 GMT

A quick update on the state of the IronRuby project with John Lam.

SVN-Monitor is going Open-Source

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:31:04 GMT

You can start downloading the latest beta version and it's source-code (C#).

Today I've Realized How Far We Have To Go

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:01:02 GMT

A call to climb on the shoulders of giants within the software develeopment industry.

Chris Koenig - How I Got Started In Programming

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:06:30 GMT

Chris Koenig, FoxPro MVP, was interviewed on how he got started in programming. Great video!

Michael Eaton - How I Got Started In Programming

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:21:25 GMT

Michael Eaton was interviewed on how he got started in programming. Great video!

Visual Studio Macro: Modify Text Editor Font Size

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:01:03 GMT

Increasing or decreasing the font size of your code in Visual Studio's text editor is almost required whenever VS is fired up on a projector. Anyone who has had to demo code, or give a talk at a user group, or present new technologies to their team has experienced the pain of increasing the font size through the Tools -> Options menu. Using Visual Studio Macros that increase/decrease the font size, this pain can be overcome.

Playing with JSON

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:46:22 GMT

Josh Holmes digs into JSON with Silverlight and a few JSON frameworks... Check out the article to see Silverlight leveraging JSON with System.Json, LINQ and more. There's even samples in raw JavaScript, MSAjax, Prototype and JQuery. Finally he ended it all up by mixing JQuery and Silverlight. That was fun and remarkably simple.

Nate Hoellein - How I Got Started In Programming

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:46:02 GMT

Nate Hoellein was interviewed on how he got started in programming. Great video!

Richard Campbell - How I Got Started In Programming

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:46:02 GMT

Richard Campbell of DotNetRocks was interviewed on how he got started in programming. Great video!

Carl Franklin - How I Got Started In Programming

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:31:02 GMT

Carl Franklin of DotNetRocks was interviewed on how he got started in programming. Great video!

ALT.NET Podcast Episode 15: Domain Driven Design

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:31:03 GMT

Talking with Rob Conery and James Avery about Domain Driven Design.

Double-clicking a VS2005 Solution in Vista

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:16:02 GMT

How to make double-clicking a VS2005 .sln launch VS properly in Vista.

ALT.NET Podcast 14: Object Databases

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:16:10 GMT

Rob Conery and James Avery discuss object databases.

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 13: Ruby on Rails

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:46:02 GMT

Brian Eng and Jeff Cohen from the Softies on Rails blog, and James Avery discuss the Ruby on Rails web framework and what Alt.NET can learn from it.

Cleaning Up Your C# Closet, Making Messy C# Code More Readable

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:01:05 GMT

Struggling with an existing code base and want to tidy things up? This article gives some great tips on how to do this along with a real world example. The end result is much more readable code that is easier to maintain.

Generic Variance in C# 4.0

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:46:12 GMT

A simple description of the new variance support for generics in the yet-to-be-released C# 4.0.

Custom Selection Heuristics in Ninject

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:52:08 GMT

An explanation of the powerful new selection heuristics in the soon-to-be-released Ninject 1.5.

Ideavine - An open source hosting project

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:01:03 GMT

Nate Kotahri and James Alveri has launched a new open source hosting service for .NET. it's currently hosting only two projects, Subtext a famous open source blogging engine and NInject, a dependency injection framework.

jQuery and Microsoft

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:16:03 GMT

news today: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate development but they will be providing it as a core piece of their platform for developers to build with.

So, What is Duck Typing?

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:16:09 GMT

"I'm going to lay out what I think Duck Typing is, and let you poke holes in it, and tell me where I'm wrong. "

Setting up Continuous Integration for your Application with Team City

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:46:04 GMT

A short screencast on setting up Continuous Integration for your Application with Team City

NVelocity Server Control

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:31:05 GMT

A light weight server control which wraps the NVelocity implementation.