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ScottGu: Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:46:05 GMT

"This evening we published the first public release candidate of Silverlight 2."

Shared Hosting and the Bleeding Edge

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:43:30 GMT

This is a good article on how to setup your site in a share hosting environment and talks about dealing with doing frindge things with your site. There are things you need to understand if you plan on setting up your ASP.NET site in a shared environment and this article goes into some very important points.

Shared Hosting & The Bleeding Edge

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:02:47 GMT

A summary of my experience getting a site up and running in a shared hosting environment using a number of bleeding-edge, open source technologies.

From flash to silverlight

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:09:06 GMT

Introducing projet rosetta and shine draw! Sites dedicated to help the transition from flash to silverlight

Getting Started With jQuery QUnit for Client-Side Javascript Testing

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:52:00 GMT

Your First QUnit Test To start testing, you'll need to start by creating an HTML page (MyFooTests.htm, for example). This page will need to reference the jquery core JS file, testrunner.js, testsuite.css, as well as the JS file containing the code you're going to be testing. Lastly, the page will need some special HTML at the bottom with well-known ID's so that QUnit can display its output. When you're done, you should have a rough skeleton like this:

Unused code is the worst of the 7 Wastes of Software

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:14:07 GMT

Today I was having another round of conversations with a buddy of mine about the concept of waste and unused code. In agile there is a concept called YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It) that basically states that you should not add code that is not immediately needed as it is waste.

Building a WPF Application: Part 1

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:56:39 GMT

The first in a series on building a FriendFeed client in WPF using TDD, MVP, DI, etc.

Ward's Wiki is still a great resource from Jeremy D. Miller

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:10:53 GMT

From Jeremy Miller.. This is fantastic and this information is so utterly vital to success and optimization for teams. It kills me most fail to leverage the real benefit of 'speaking in patterns' at a mastery level where it is understood that the conceptual OO design is easy and trivial compared with changing your culture. Yet once it happens an entire cascade of changes often happen I have noticed which drives tems to obvious places in domain-driven 'ubiquitous language'. Damon

Using Lambdas to get at properties

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:50:27 GMT

A short description of how I used lambdas to set properties when I needed a little validation to go along with it.

NDepend: code metrics at your service

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:31:08 GMT

If you ever wrote code for a non-trivial project chances are that from time to time you stop an think: "I don't know, but I have the feeling that the code is not really clean/too complex/[insert adjective here that makes you feel bad about your code]". Chances are even that you did not had these thoughts - but your source code indeed was not really clean, too complex or what not. While the latter situation is certainly the worse of the two, both situation make clear that we need means to quantify the quality of our code. NDepend is an excellent tool that can be used to generate those metrics

.NET Developers' Reference Card Round-Up

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:31:09 GMT

I thought I would share this list of reference cards / cheat sheets that I have compiled over the last year or so. If I am missing any good ones, please post them in the comments.

TemplateBinding: a bridge between styles and templates

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:31:56 GMT

How I use control templates and styles when creating a custom look for an application.

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.

Little nugget of simplification when loading an XDocument

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:50:11 GMT

Simplification when loading an XDocument

Styling Separators in WPF

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:47:16 GMT

A brief outline on how to style separators for menus and toolbars in WPF.

Contrasting Control Templates & Styles in WPF

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:39:10 GMT

An introduction and some musing on the differences between Control Templates and Styles in WPF.

donjon - an agile project management web app

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:01:02 GMT

From hammet - the man behind the castle project "Our first goal is to make an agile project management web app. Why? We are not happy with the apps we have been using. They clearly are clueless regarding usability, and the pricing is unreasonable - not to mention the drug dealer selling model. The one that has a very decent UI is just not flexible. Also, I'm not a total fan of SaaS model, so I'd rather host my and my clients projects and important data."

The criticism of the Entity Framework - not just around DDD

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:01:10 GMT

Describing the historical context for the criticism for EF>.

Caliburn Feature Profile

Thu, 29 May 2008 18:31:03 GMT

Rob puts together a list of Caliburn's currently supported features.

Good Development Practices - Basic Reading List

Mon, 19 May 2008 13:19:59 GMT

Casey lists a set of essential books.

Why use EF

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:23:42 GMT

What does EF do to you?

Caliburn and Prism

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:57:47 GMT

Rob discusses the relationship between the Caliburn project and Prism.

NHibernate 2.0 Supa' Layer

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:46:03 GMT

Essentially I wanted a way to make queries work better within the context of a Domain Driven Design approach. I'm a big believer in Persistence Ignorance, so this means that I had to find a way to represent queries in a provider independent way. LINQ does this for me, mostly, but I still need a 'syntactically pleasing' way to get the LINQ provider to the query at runtime. Well, it turns out that doing this is pretty easy.

LINQifying - getting rid of CollectionBase?

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:58:42 GMT

If you're sitting on some old types that implement CollectionBase you might find that they don't directly work with LINQ. Here's how you can make these types work with LINQ.

PTOM: The Open Closed Principle

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:50:19 GMT

Covers the open closed principle of Object Oriented Design.