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Ruby In Steel - New Free Edition includes Visual Studio

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:49:36 GMT

SapphireSteel Software today released a free edition of Ruby In Steel, the Ruby and Rails IDE for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

ASP.NET MVC Tip: Ajax and Validations using jQuery

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:02:14 GMT

In this post, I demonstrate how to integrate jQuery with ASP.NET MVC and will be explain how to send Ajax requests and also show client side validation using jQuery. I am using a blog application for this demo and it will show how to post a comment of a blog entry using Ajax request and will also show partial rendering with the help of a user control.

Using the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder attribute - Second part

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:11:24 GMT

Just after the ASP.NET MVC preview 5 was released, I made a quick attempt to using the ModelBinder attribute. In short, a ModelBinder allows you to use complex objects as action method parameters, instead of just basic types like strings and integers. While my aproach was correct, it did not really cover the whole picture. So here it is: the full picture.

October 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:31:06 GMT

Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.

10 Questions to Choose Candidates for Your Large Agile Company

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:37:01 GMT

This set of questions was created to help corporate managers select Agile-experienced consultants and candidate employees for project work.

The effect of stackoverflow.com on programmer habits

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:53:02 GMT

It is easy to run to the experts to get answers to programming problems. Will programming QA sites like stackoverflow.com where there is a group of above average developers answering questions make us programmers lazy? Will we just post questions and wait for answers instead of digging a little deeper and spend a little extra time to figure out the solutions ourselves?

jQuery and Visual Studio

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:08:08 GMT

jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular

jQuery to ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:01:03 GMT

Microsoft is going to make jQuery part of the official dev platform. JQuery will come with Visual Studio in the long term, and in the short term it'll ship with ASP.NET MVC. We'll also ship a version includes Intellisense in Visual Studio.

Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:45:48 GMT

Microsoft may be the only company in a position to provide "any real competition" for Google in the online search business, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday. But first it will need to figure out a way to do it. . . The CEO offered little in the way of new insights during the evening, except that Microsoft will discuss "Project Red Dog," its secretive cloud computing initiative, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference next month.

Simple Thoughts on Code Quality

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:31:14 GMT

For the software, itself, it is easier to discuss its quality by measuring its performance, memory usage, number of the bugs etc. But what if we talk about the code file, how can we write code that we are proud of.

Elegant Code » Little Secret

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:15:10 GMT

I try to avoid these kind of comments at all times. Sure, there is a time and place for comments like these. But if I do feel the urge of writing a comment for clarifying a piece of code, then I turn back to the code, looking for a better and cleaner way of expressing my intent. If I'm just too stupid and can't find a cleaner way for writing those particular lines of code, then and only then would I consider to put a comment in place (probably feeling bad and miserable for the rest of the day).

Migrating to jQuery

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:46:20 GMT

This post outlines some of the steps I went through to convert an existing, small web application from traditional JavaScript to jQuery.

Measuring Programmers By Extra Hours

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:01:04 GMT

I am writing this article as a sequel to the Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code article. Let me please talk about another common metric - measuring the amount of extra hours a software developer has done.

ASP.NET Ajax, JQuery

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:28:57 GMT

A little while back I came across a great post on how to use JQuery to do more efficient client side paging by Dave Ward. The sample shows you how to use JQuery to do Ajax callbacks for client side paging using a grid template. After downloading the demo and parsing through it all, I found a lot of things I really liked and even came across a little gotchya with the way ASP.NET serializes dates in JSON.

Scaling Long Running Web Services

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:52:56 GMT

How to handle web service calls that can take a long time to complete.

JQuery, the very very basics - Lesson 2

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:01:12 GMT

So it is nice to be able to use a combination of JQuery selectors to grab an array of elements, however, it would be better if we know how to inspect them one by one and operate on them.

Sculpture - New track in the Model-Driven Development Dream.

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:31:02 GMT

What is Sculpture? * Sculpture is a .NET open source Model-Driven Development code generation framework ideal for creating and managing .NET Enterprise Applications. * With Sculpture you can model your application components, and then transform this model to deployable components for your favorite technology. * Sculpture comes with a host of ready-made Molds (The word "Molds" come from Molding) like (DAAB, NHibernate, LINQ, WCF, ASMX, SQL Server, MYSQL .). * Sculpture contains a Guidance Package for building your own Mold or customizes existing ones. If you have a custom architecture, using this Guidance Package, you can build a custom code generator with your favorite Technology to fit your needs. * Sculpture can generate any kind of text output using templates (source code, database scripts, web pages, XML, configuration files, etc.). * Sculpture raises the level of abstraction, for example the data access layer part in your model may be transformed to NHibernate implementation and with minor changes it can be transformed to LINQ implementation, and in the future can be transformed to "X" framework, which we don't know it now.

TDD Tips: Unit Test Namespace considerations

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:37:35 GMT

There's a debate and poll going on about where you should put your tests.

Source Control for .NET Developers, The open source approach

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:31:03 GMT

A brief and good tutorial for .NET developers to implement source control for their projects inside Visual Studio.

Using Rake to make a build

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:27:52 GMT

David Laribee shows a script to build a .net project using Rake the ruby build system.

Google Trashes their own do no evil policy with Chrome

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:27:46 GMT

By writing a blog post, or uploading an image to Flickr you are giving Google permission to use it however they want. Without any attribution. Without any compensation. Anywhere in the world. Forever. And you can't revoke it. more...

Free Data Structures and Algorithms book

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:43:02 GMT

This book written by Granville Barnett and Luca Del Tongo is part of an effort to provide all developers with a core understanding of algorithms that operate on various common, and uncommon data structures. Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples is completely free!

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 9: The State of IronRuby

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:31:13 GMT

Learn about Ruby, why you should check it out, and what the status is on the IronRuby project,

NHibernate 2.0 Documentation Wiki

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:02:02 GMT

Fabio Maulo has created at dokumentation wiki for nhibernate 2.0 in Google Knol

NHibernate 2.0 is out

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Directly from the blog of Ayende, NHibernate 2.0 is out!!