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Scale Cheaply - Sharding

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:16:05 GMT

There are a lot of expensive ways to scale your database - all of which are highly touted by the big three database vendors because, well, they want to sell you all types of really expensive stuff. Despite what an "engagement consultant" might tell you though, most of the high-traffic websites on the web (google, digg, facebook) rely on far cheaper and better strategies: the core of which is called sharding.

NHIbernate 2.0 Goes Beta 1 after Microsoft 'Linq to Entities' receives

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:01:09 GMT

The first official beta for NHibernate 2.0 was released today. This comes on the heels of the damaging 'boycott' of the Microsoft 'Linq to Entities' upcoming release, which was anticipated to be a serious competitor to NHibernate. LAST MINUTE UPDATE FROM THE NHIBERNATE TEAM There has been a change in how NHibernate is packaged as the core and contrib aspects now have dedicated locations. Since NHibernate 2.0 Alpha 1, ONLY THE CORE of the project is included at the link above. The Contrib Projects are now in a dedicated location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhcontrib There are a few new projects that are essential to investigate for your needs (for example the Burrow project). Also be sure to visit the wiki for these significant projects: http://nhcontrib.wiki.sourceforge.net See the end of this post for a partial list of these contrib efforts. The team at domain.dot.net has been working with 2.0.X since the first alpha, and following the progress of the trunk. In our opinion this beta has the high quality of prior betas and we recommend it for non-critical systems immediately as your risk policy allows. We're working on a more detailed analysis coming soon on some of the key improvements. To download the code direct from the trunk use this SVN URL: https://nhibernate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nhibernate This is no minor update, as with this release they will align with the widely used and praised 'Hibernate 3.2' for Java. Here is a listing of the planned new features which are represented to varying degrees of complexness in this beta:

Silverlight Developer Reference Posters

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:46:08 GMT

Silverlight Developer Reference Posters - Silverlight 1.1 & Silverlight 2

Which .NET Blogger Do Girls Like Better?

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:46:09 GMT

Find out which .NET blogger is more popular with the ladies. Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Jeff Atwood, or Joel Spolsky I received an invite to Google Ad Planner. As I was playing around with this new tool, I was really blown away by how much information Google has collected on specific websites. So much so that I wanted to share this tool with my readers, but I couldn't come up with an interesting way to demonstrate the capabilities. Until I started looking up some of my favorite bloggers and saw the almost embarrassing balance between females and males.

The 20 most kicked "top-10 stories" for Developers

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:46:04 GMT

A compilation of the 20 stories dealing with top-10 links or advices that were kicked most in 2008

A Small and Fast Domain Modeling Tool

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:46:03 GMT

Mindscape have released a major upgrade to their LightSpeed domain modelling / ORM tool. Version 2.0 includes a visual model designer integrated into Visual Studio, LINQ support, and the ability to access multiple databases concurrently.

Using Linq to query the File System

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:31:13 GMT

Short screen casts on using Linq to query the File System

Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to build a client side Repeater

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:16:04 GMT

An example of one way of using ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery to implement client-side Repeater functionality. Using this technique on one of my own sites, I realized an over 400% performance gain.

Microsoft PM responds to Entity Framework "petition of no confidence"

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:46:08 GMT

Tim Mallalieu tries to explain the EF situation - basically he says, "we'll try to do it in the next version" when responding to Entity Framework critics

SQL Server in One Page - Download it Now

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:01:02 GMT

One of the most popular request I have received on this blog is to create one page which list all the SQL Server FAQs. SQL Server technology is very broad as well very deep. This is my humble attempt to list few of the daily used details in one page. Let me know your opinion and suggestion. Download SQL Server FAQ Sheet in PDF format

Silverlight Lightbox from TeamLive.com

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:31:02 GMT

A very cool Lightbox implementation using Silverlight 2.0

jQuery.ui Sortable

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Sortable lists are a common thing to work on and jQuery.ui's Sortable plug in makes it super easy to create very nice looking sortable lists that work consistently even in complex layouts.

... functional programming might be the next big shift

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Some thoughts on the growing trend towards functional programming (for those not aware of it).

ASP.NET MVC CSS Sprite

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:16:02 GMT

I build on my last technique of generating CSS Sprites and make a unique solution for the MVC framework using a custom ActionResult.

51+ Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A good summary of jQuery resources

LINQ to XML in 3 easy steps

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:46:02 GMT

Linq to xml provides an easy query interface for XML files. In the following example I will demonstrate how to use it for reading and writing data from/to xml file, using the file for persistency maintaining a list of objects.

ASP.NET MVC - Legacy Url Routing

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:31:02 GMT

When converting web form applications to MVC, it requires a new Url structure. Learn how to handle legacy Url's within an MVC application by appropriately redirecting them to the correct MVC Url.

Faster Builds with MSBuild using Parallel Builds and MultiCore CPU

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Title says enough or you're just dead from the neck up if you're not interested...

Why VisualSVN 1.4 Is So Great

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:01:02 GMT

So after the installation of VisualSVN 1.4, I don't think I'll ever look back. Finally a version of Visual Studio source control integration to make me leave the realms of Visual Source Safe forever.

Launch of TeamLive.com

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

A post about the launch of the Silverlight 2 powered online design collaboration tool TeamLive.

ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 5

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:16:02 GMT

In this webcast I create a fictional curveball, wherein the "client" sent some test data that they finally were able to get their IT department to extract. In reviewing the test data, I find some very interesting changes to the DB that I need to make...

Are you going the way of the Dinosaur???

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:01:12 GMT

Some great advice for your career.

47 ASP.NET MVC Resources

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Craig Shoemaker highlights some of the best ASP.NET MVC resources available.

Extension Method Hack To Get Around NullReferenceException's

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Today I came across an interesting extension method pattern that I didn't know how the runtime would react. Because I was calling a method from an object that was obviously null. Check it out it is pretty cool.

SEO Page Manager For ASP.Net

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:46:10 GMT

manage all your meta tags and sitemap urls in one convenient place