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Learning Doesn't Work if You Don't Do It Right...

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:56:03 GMT

If you're going to spend time reading and searching, make sure you know what works best for your brain.

Learning new Programmming Languages and Technologies

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Recently, I've read article after article about how part of being a good software developer is about being open to new technologies, and to "learn new things" - and I'd be foolish not to agree. However...

Creating a Tag Cloud using ASP.NET MVC and the Entity Framework

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:45:01 GMT

A Tag Cloud is a visual depiction of Tags or categories on a web site. CSS is used to set the variable font size of each Tag to illustrate its relative frequency or popularity within the site. As part of the migration of my site to ASP.NET MVC, I am introducing one to replace the Categories navigation that appears on the left hand side of each page, which contains a count of items within each category.

dashCommerce: State of the Union Address 2009

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:18:18 GMT

dashCommerce 2009 achievements.

LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:15:00 GMT

What's fixed and breaking changes for LINQ to SQL in .NET 4.0

The Greatest Exception Handling WTF?!? of All Time

Thu, 28 May 2009 10:00:00 GMT

The Exception object has ONE purpose and ONE purpose only - to represent a runtime error, nothing more. Exceptions should never be used for purposes for which they were not intended -- or you could end up with this monstrosity...

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.

Installation and Configuration of Microsoft Velocity

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:01:18 GMT

David walks us through how to install and configure Microsoft Velocity.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:01:26 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM is released

Getting Mono and Visual Studio to play nice together :: Part 2

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:01:02 GMT

Chris Cyvas continues his profiles of getting Mono and Visual Studio to play nice together. In a previous post, Chris documented how to get some Mono Project Templates to work with Visual Studio. In this post, Chris creates some Mono Item Templates for use with your Mono Project Templates.

ASP.NET - YSlow and ASP.NET: 100 points "A" grade is possible

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:46:02 GMT

Just in case if somebody doesn't know what YSlow is? YSlow is Firefox add-on integrated with Firebug. It analyzes web pages and tells you why they are slow. You can run it on you project and see your grade. You can do some easy improvements and maybe even get D grade. However to get higher then D grade becomes a real challenge. Below I will describe how I got A grade (100 points) on my web blog application.

A New Look for Visual Studio 2010!

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:46:02 GMT

At the PDC and TechEd EMEA last year we described our new editor support built on the WPF technology in .NET Framework 4.0. Today I'm happy to reveal the new UI for Visual Studio, also built on WPF:

ASP.NET SEO and the Canonical Tag

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:16:13 GMT

Recently, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo announced support for a new canonical tag in an effort to combat duplicate urls (read duplicate content) on websites.

A Failure in Microsofts Open Source Strategy

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:16:13 GMT

If they want their development tools to be the tools to develop with and they want Windows to be the platform to deploy solutions on (open source and otherwise), then they need to consider, very carefully, how they expect to achieve that. You've got to do more than release open source software . . .

8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes.

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:31:06 GMT

It's always nice to read a post where you already follow some of the suggestions but find the odd useful nugget, I dislike seeing literals in my source code and the hint about making them stand out with nasty color coding is something I'll be giving a go!

Changes coming to dashCommerce

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:40:44 GMT

We are also going to focus on making Mono a first class, supported platform for dashCommerce. What does that mean? It means dashCommerce will be cross-platform: Windows, Linux, OS X, and BSD. Why? . . .

Static typed propety names

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:46:04 GMT

This blog post describes how to avoid using literals with property names (like "FirstName") and protecting from mistyping those names in your code. Examples based on Nhibernate queries, notifying on property changes and displaying error messages...

From 32-Bit to 64-Bit: Why Software Lags Hardware

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:43:53 GMT

Your new computer has a 64-bit processor, but your software probably is still 32-bit. Why haven't software developers done more about it?

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:01:18 GMT

Finally Scott Guthrie announced ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC. Check it out.

Top Visual Studio Add-ins

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:31:02 GMT

I am often asked what my favourite development tools are, so I thought I'd write down a few that I use and why. I have split this list in 2 as some of these are add-ons for visual studio and others are just standalone applications here are the VS Add-ins.

jQuery 1.3.1 Released

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:31:02 GMT

This is a fix to recently released jQuery 1.3

Construct a comma delimited list from table column with SQL

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:16:08 GMT

How many times have you had to create a comma delimited list from a table column? Do you ever remember how to do it? I don't. Here is a little snippet I find useful

Most Interesting .NET StackOverFlow Questions

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:46:02 GMT

Today a short list of My Personal Most Interesting .NET Questions to me asked on StackOverFlow I founded.

Back to Basics: Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:46:10 GMT

Great article on .NET basics

YourTopJob.com - Find IT jobs across the UK

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:38:50 GMT

Job site, with IT jobs, across the UK