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July 2008 MSDN mag on-line

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:36:32 GMT

Come and get it. ;-)

Efficient Paging in SQL Server 2005

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:46:11 GMT

Sure, SQL Server 2008 is getting ready to drop, but are you familiar with all of the new features that 2005 gave you? Or maybe you haven't used 2005, well, this is a good article to introduce to you several of the new features in SQL Server 2005.

Newspaper - a free theme for BlogEngine.NET

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Newspaper is a free, lightweight, high-contrast, black&white theme for BlogEngine.NET. The name "Newspaper" comes from the fact that theme looks like real newspapers. You can see how does it looks like and download a free copy.

Joe Stagner says you could improve your ASP.NET site one tag at a time

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:46:09 GMT

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek apparently took a brief look at Aggiorno, a Visual Studio plugin that does some interesting stuff, such as add alternate text to images, update deprecated attributes or fix tag structure for XHTML compliance. Come take a look!

Danger in Design: Why bother with Architecture?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:01:12 GMT

Creativity is a wonderful thing. It's also something different for each of us, which is why sometimes our perspectives on the world can produce conflicting ideas on what is the right way and the wrong way to do things. This is a very common facet of the IT world, in particular making computer software, solutions and services.

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.

ASP.NET Performance Tips

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:31:03 GMT

The article lists few of some of the many performance tweaks that can be implement to boost up ASP.NET performance.

Lambdas

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:31:03 GMT

Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. Read this post to get an easy to understand overview of a topic is not really so terribly difficult to understand.

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.

Ranting and Raving or Getting Results?

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:16:07 GMT

Josh talks about the recent Vote of No confidence and offers up some advice for those wanting to see change.

An Unfortunate Consequence of History

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:45:12 GMT

The author talks about the history of data in applications, why we have the need for databases, and where data is headed.

Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:16:05 GMT

Internal email from Bill Gates detailing his difficulties with Microsoft.com, Windows Update, and more.

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.

HashSet to the Rescue

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:16:03 GMT

If you are using a generic List<T> to store unique object references in there is a better way. It's called the HashSet<T> and it is new in .Net 3.5 It's indexed and it's blazing fast.

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

VS2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:31:02 GMT

This shell extension adds a right click menu on any folder that will start WebDev.WebServer.exe (aka Cassini) pointing to that directory.

Do our visual tools harm our innovation?

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Amazing post by Jeremy Miller asking some important questions. How many times have you procrastinated with visual tools that eventually slowed your development process and made your code quality diminish?

Foundations of Programming Ebook

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Covering the basics of good programming.

Get Vista to Boot faster

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Great trick to use all your processors

Dissecting Linq Expression Trees - Part 1

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:46:02 GMT

Nice article on how to use and create Linq Expression trees.

This Blog is 80% Complete

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:43:24 GMT

A rant on the inadvisability of scheduling 40-day tasks. Can you really provide an accurate status on an 8-week task by saying "sure, it's 70% done"?

Crashing WCF 3.5 JSON Services with DateTime.MinValue

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:01:37 GMT

Ran into some odd issues with WCF 3.5 and HTTP JSON services hanging up an ASP.NET application. It appears that there are a couple of problems with null serialization and DateTime.MinValue serialization that are causing this problem.

Clean your HTML inputs or the dog-eaters will get to you

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:02:36 GMT

Google sent quite a few people looking for underground Korean adult movies to my blog. I guess that you can find anything on Internet these days, but why were they looking for it on my web site? The answer to that question turned out to be another great example of why inputs should be cleaned up no matter how unimportant.

Twitter much?

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:11:37 GMT

Are you a Telerik fan? If so, rest assured that we are coming up with new ways for you to stay connected and up-to-date on the latest and greatest news from the Telerik team. And if social networking sites, community forums, and blogs aren't enough, we've got a new treat for you today. I'm proud to announce our presence on Twitter!