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Twitter API from C#

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:07:04 GMT

Example method that sends a message programatically with C# to twitter.

JavaScript in Chrome

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:46:02 GMT

A full rundown of the JavaScript features and bugs in Chrome

Getting rid of strings (3): take your app settings to the next level

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:31:02 GMT

In the first article of this series I talked about the problems with strings in code. This article will show you how you can use lambda expressions and expression trees as another tool to avoid strings

jQuery Form Serialization without ASP.NET ViewState

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:31:10 GMT

When building AJAX applications that send client form content to the server, ViewState and EventValidation fields can get in the way. Using jQuery you can make short work skipping over these fields and send only the raw POST data to the server.

Becoming a Visual Studio Jedi Part 1

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:16:03 GMT

Peter discusses how to get your use of Visual Studio to the next level.

Building a Web Game Step by Step

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:39:58 GMT

On this blog, the Orion's Belt team present step by step all the developments and ideas for the 2.0 version of their game. The game is running on ASP.NET 2.0 and using NHibernate and Midgard.

Completely Scripting a SQL Server Database

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:16:02 GMT

A guide on how to easily script out an entire database (schema and data) using the Database Publishing Wizard. A tool that you may not know you have access to. And if you have Visual Studio 2008, you already have installed!

NHibernate 2.0 is out

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:46:02 GMT

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

Link blogs. do yourself a favor

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:31:02 GMT

I'm currently subscribed to 110 feeds and everyday the number of unread posts is going up. It seems like i just can't catch up anymore. Of all those unread posts, a lot will be very interesting, but there will also be quite a few that won't interest me that much. So i'm going to cut back on the number of feeds i'm subscribed to, and i'm going to rely on some fantastic links blogs to point me to the best posts.

Top 10 Things New Twitter Users Need To Know

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:01:02 GMT

Those new to Twitter need some guidance. Jeff Blankenburg has come up with a list of things that someone new to Twitter needs to read before even creating their account.

No, inheritance is not the way to achieve code reuse!

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:01:03 GMT

I am not sure how so many people go through so many years of school, which is supposed to make us better at thinking, and they fail to differentiate the "why" and the "how". During interviews, when I ask their opinion about the purpose of inheritance in OOP, invariably I get this precooked answer (not so nicely expressed): inheritance is the way to achieve code reuse. No it is not!

Skinning the Cat with Fluent NHibernate

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:01:02 GMT

As you may have noticed, I have become interested in the concept of Object Relational Mapping and the NHibernate framework. One of the more painful/tedious aspects of using NHibernate is hand writing the xml mapping files. That is why I got excited when I heard that Jeremy Miller was open sourcing his mapping generation libraries.

Authorization policies in WCF: from tokens to claim sets

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:36:50 GMT

This post describes the process that begins with the authentication of a token and ends with a collection of claim sets, available at the AuthorizationContext.

Using Regions in Code Files

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:31:03 GMT

Recently I have been confronted with a movement that seems to hate using #Regions in source code files. Personally I really like using regions and I absolutely like the ability to collapse sections of code I am not directly working with.

Big SEO Mistake because of Response.Redirect

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:27:50 GMT

How my site started to receive less visits from google because of a permanently redirect bug.

Get country from a browser in ASP.NET

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:31:07 GMT

A simple and pretty accurate method of retrieving a visitor's country and language from the browser.

Silverlight 2.0 - Concepts To Become A Silverlight Master (Part 3)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:16:03 GMT

Part 3 of the Silverlight Master Series focuses on Expression Blend and its importance in the Silverlight design process.

Some best practices for NHibernate by Ayende

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:01:11 GMT

A few hours ago I completed a code review of an application using NHibernate. This is not the first time I am doing such a thing, of course, and I noticed that there are quite a few areas where I tend to have comments in such code reviews. The following is based on several such code bases that I went through, and contains a partial list of things that you need to watch for.

Batch Processing with NHibernate

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:28:44 GMT

How I improved my batch processing performance just by adding a session clear!

Application Evolution using Google Charts

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:50:26 GMT

How to generate google charts that represent the application evolution.

StringWriter vs StringBuilder

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:50:20 GMT

Some toughs on using StringWriter versus using StringBuilder.

Using NAnt with Visual Studio

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:31:03 GMT

Get your NAnt build running from VS.Net with full intelli-sense, and build errors reported to the error list window.

Funny Javascript Error

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:01:28 GMT

When you're tired, you don't see thins as clearly as you should...

ASP.NET - Continuous Dynamic Downloading

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT

How to provide a dynamic download to your users.

Monitoring NHibernate

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:18:46 GMT

How to easily monitor NHibernate performance.