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Google AdSense Advertising - eeech...

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Rick Strahl has a great post questioning how much fraud Google actually lets through with AdSense.

Programming Language Jobs and Trends

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:58:53 GMT

A look at how language trends. Job growth data for C# is looking good.

Douchebaggery

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:31:02 GMT

To imply that programmers using Windows "don't care enough about their tools to get the best"? I have a pretty thick skin based on the psychic scars of the thousands of petty internet religious wars I've participated in, and this one even ruffles my feathers a little. I

Reality-driven development

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:48:24 GMT

A way to think about software development as evolution directed by users and technical quality.

Quick And Simple DependencyInjection With StructureMap

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

A very quick guide to IoC using StructureMap.

How to follow DotNetKicks.com efficiently

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:16:02 GMT

I'll show here a little tip how I follow my favorite .NET-community, DotNetKicks.com (DNK). It is one of the best .NET-resources and it gets lot's of quality content daily so staying up to speed with the site requires some effort.

Richard Feynman, the Challenger, and Software Engineering

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:16:04 GMT

When Richard Feynman investigated the Challenger disaster, he issued a brilliant report with many insights into the nature of engineering. These apply directly to modern software development. Not sure if this one is on topic - it's about general software engineering.

Microsoft SharedView

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:01:01 GMT

Microsoft SharedView is a fast, easy way to share documents and screen views with small groups of friends or coworkers.

.NET 3.5 Client Product Roadmap

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Scott is introducing upcoming features of client part of .NET 3.5

DreamSpark - VS for college students for free

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:35:42 GMT

DreamSpark allows college students to aquire multiple applications from Microsoft for free!

ASP.NET Runtime Cheat Sheet: HttpRequest, HttpRuntime, and f

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:16:07 GMT

Cheat sheets for retrieving various bits of ASP.NET runtime information, all with live sample values, links to MSDN, and some explanations. Includes source code.

Coolite: Ext JS .NET Controls

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:31:02 GMT

Coolite Studio is an Ext official suite of ASP.NET Web Controls based on the Ext JavaScript Framework.

The LINQ Farm

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:14:16 GMT

Various sample, videos, and other resources from Charlie Calvert.

Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:31:02 GMT

Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.

Hands-on SQL Injection

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:04:55 GMT

Explains SQL Injections, lets you perform a SQL injection against a live database, and explains how to mitigate the problem. If you are trying to get someone to write injection-proof code, I hope this will motivate them :)

The DotNetKicks Effect

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:31:02 GMT

An overview of traffic coming from DotNetKicks when an article makes it to the front page.

Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

A list of some things to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications.

Lock Down SQL Server 2005

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

This article teaches you how to lock down a SQL Server 2005 installation. A step-by-step procedure is given along with the concepts behind it. It includes a world-accessible SQL2005 shell to let you experiment with a hardened database. Two SQL scripts are provided to automate hardening.

Dynamically Generating Lambdas

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:31:03 GMT

In this post you will see how to build expression trees and compile and call dynamically generated lambdas.

LINQ to JSON beta

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:16:02 GMT

A beta release of Json.NET 2.0. New in 2.0 is a LINQ to JSON API.

Capturing the Screen Contents in .NET 2.0

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:01:02 GMT

When supporting installed software, descriptions of problems can be enhanced greatly by viewing the contents of the user's screen. In this article we will explore how to perform a screen grab and display the captured image in a Windows Forms application.

Test Supported Development (TSD) is not Test Driven Development (TDD)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:38:20 GMT

"Test Supported Development" (TSD) intends to characterize the creation of tests during ANY/ALL stages of development, that is, tests are not necessarily created before their respective System Under Test (SUT), but not necessarily created as an afterthought, either...

The Most Useful VS Feature No One Seems To Use

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

Speed up your debugging time by using the Exceptions dialog box.

How to use delegates to remove duplicated code

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:31:02 GMT

Sometimes you have duplicated code, that is not easy to remove with "ordinary" coding approaches. Think about the following example. You have two or more methods that needs to be encapsulated with try-catch blocks.

.Net Syntax Highlighter with support for ~460 syntaxes

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:46:02 GMT

MIT/X11-licensed Syntax highlighter built in C# with support for hundreds of syntaxes. The web interface lets you build and save color scheme.