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The Book Writing Process

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:31:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the writing process of a book, especially a programming book, based on his own experiences with Wrox when working on Beginning ASP.NET MVC.

Which is faster? Silverlight or Flash?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:46:11 GMT

Benchmarks of RIA performances: Flash/Flex is faster when it comes to graphic rendering, but Silverlight is faster when it comes to pure computation speed.

ASP.NET MVC P5 released on Codeplex

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:16:12 GMT

Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex.

Resyncing the apm model of Silverlight

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:56:17 GMT

An approach to simulate sync methods call to WCF from Silverlight

No GoLive required to use ASP.NET MVC in production

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:31:03 GMT

ASP.NET MVC EULA allows its usage in live operating environment, so it can be used in production

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."

How to get up to speed with Team Foundation Server

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:01:03 GMT

A collection of links about TFS, from evaluation to installation to customization and maintenance.

Second Italian ALT.NET conference

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:31:03 GMT

After the "small success" of the first UGIALT.net mini conference in February, UGIALT.net is organizing another conference in June. As for the other conference there will not be a fixed agenda, but the event will be a day-long discussion on the topics decided by the participants, probably developing a small app to focus on the various stages of the development.

37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Interesting plugins for jQuery Javascript library.

Live Demo of ScottGu's Silverlight 2 Digg Application

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:16:03 GMT

I didn't see any live demo links on Scott's blog, so I thought I would upload his digg demo app to my web server. So if you want to view his app without downloading the code (or if you don't have VS 2008), you can view the live demo here. Hopefully Scott won't mind ...

VB.net, oh how I hate thee, let me count the ways...

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:01:02 GMT

A developer who is forced to work in VB.net finally hits the tipping point. Oh, and that developer is me.

ASP.NET MVC: Securing Your Controller Actions

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:31:02 GMT

Many people on the forums want to know how to best protect Actions on their Controller using Forms Authentication. The MVC Team has done a nice job introducing Filters (using Attributes) to this latest drop of MVC, and in this post I'll show you how to create a filter that can handle security.

stylizedweb.com - Most used CSS tricks

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:01:02 GMT

Earlier before I have written an article about current best CSS hacks which you can see here And now here's the list of today's most used CSS tricks - tips. I have added image examples for most of them because of critics on CSS hacks article. If you think I have missed any please let me know.

The Liskov Substitution Principle

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:16:02 GMT

The first S.O.L.I.D. principle

Let's tag all ASP.NET MVC contents with aspnetmvc

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:01:08 GMT

I saw using a lot of different tags for tagging ASP.NET MVC related contents: why don't we just standardize the way we do it and tag with aspnetmvc?

if ... else if ... else if ... else ... : an alternative

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Did you know there's an alternative way of writing "if .. else if .. else if .. etc.." in C#? You probably do, but if you don't, read on...

Apply Test-Driven Development to your Database Projects

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:31:02 GMT

Using this methodology, developers write unit tests for individual features before actually implementing the feature.

S.O.L.I.D. principles

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:25:32 GMT

Core object-oriented design skills!

Retaining Good Developers - 10 Things To Keep Them Happy

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:46:02 GMT

This is a great article. I just wish some of my previous employers would have done just a few of these things. I probably would have stuck around longer.

Advanced mocking: anonymous test spy

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:46:03 GMT

Great example of the Test Spy mocking pattern not using and also using a mocking framework (Rhino Mocks)

Irony - .NET Compiler Construction Kit

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:16:04 GMT

Irony is a new-generation .NET compiler construction kit. It utilizes the full potential of c# 2.0 and .NET Framework to implement a completely new and streamlined technology of compiler construction. Unlike most existing yacc/lex-style solutions Irony does not employ any scanner or parser code generation from grammar specifications written in proprietary meta-language. In Irony the target language grammar is coded directly in c# using operator overloading to express grammar constructs. Irony's scanner and parser modules use the grammar encoded as c# class to control the parsing process. See the expression grammar sample for an example of grammar definition in c# class, and using it in a working parser.

MIX08 (Streams!) for Non-Attendees

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:01:02 GMT

At last, the mad rush is over. . .

ASP.NET MVC CAPTCHA

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:16:02 GMT

This post provides the source code to implement your own CAPTCHA using the MVC Framework. This was done using Attributes to validate the CAPTCHA so the implementation is hidden.

Silverlight 2.0 (beta 1) Controls Screenshot

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:31:05 GMT

SilverlightShow has a nice post up detailing the controls that will be available in the Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 release. The news was originally posted on Shawn Burke's blog, but it appears that the he was forced to take down the screen shot. Thanks to SilverlightShow that graphic is still visible and is also now posted on my blog. Exciting stuff!

ASP.NET MVC Framework Scaffold Generator

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Freeware tool that automatically creates CRUD ( Create, Read, Update, Delete ) pages for the new Asp.Net MVC Framework.