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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.

Some concepts to know before you use an IoC tool

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:01:09 GMT

The baseline understanding required to effectively implement dependency injection

Replacing Loaded Assemblies - Paulo Morgado

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Paulo shows us how to load, unload and replace assemblies at runtime.

Batching WCF calls

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:01:03 GMT

Great approach to overcome unnecessary roundtrips to a WCF service!

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

What makes me NOT want to leave a company/client/shop

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:16:09 GMT

What makes me NOT want to leave a company

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.

How to use NDepend to improve code quality

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:16:09 GMT

Code quality is an important aspect of every software development project - discover how NDepend can aid in giving you a richer and more meaningful understanding of the quality of your code as well as helping to identify areas you could improve. This post is a high level overview of what you can achieve with NDepend.

The 5 types of poor software architects

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:31:06 GMT

The types of software architects you never want to meet in your career

Using Classes To Fight CSS Class Explosion

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:16:04 GMT

You might think that really stylable HTML needs classes all over the place. That's not true, thanks to descendant selectors, which let you target elements inside a parent element.

Playing Nice With Service Locators

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:16:09 GMT

An explanation of how you can use the Service Locator pattern along with dependency injection to make your code more flexible in certain cases.

Speed up Firefox when using Development Server

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:31:02 GMT

Using Firefox on Vista to view websites hosted by the Visual Studio Development Server can be unbearably slow. Pages take aeons (i.e. several seconds) to load while viewing the same site under IE does not suffer from this issue. Here's how to solve the problem.

Ninject 1.0 Goes Gold at Discord&Rhyme

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:46:16 GMT

Ninject, an excellent Dependency Injection Framework with support for Silverlight, the compact framework, and all regular flavors of .NET just hit 1.0.

ASP.NET MVC Tip #1 - Creating New HTML Helpers with Extension Methods

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:31:02 GMT

In this tip, Stephen Walther shows you how you can create two new HTML Helpers that you can use within an ASP.NET MVC View. I show you how you can use extension methods to create new HTML Helpers for displaying bulleted and numbered lists.

Introduction to Moq

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:01:04 GMT

In this post, I provide an introduction to Moq which is the newest of the Mock Object Frameworks. Moq is promoted by its creators as easier to learn and use than other Mock Object Frameworks such as Rhino Mocks and TypeMock Isolator.

Turn Google App Engine into your own Personal Content Delivery Network

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:01:03 GMT

As anybody who has run a growing website or blog knows, response time is going to get worse with the more users you have visiting your site. The users come from all angles, RSS feeds, homepage visits, search engine visits, people sealing your static files that you host, and pretty much anything else that can be served over HTTP. The solution to this problem is to off load your static content on to a Content Delivery Network or CDN. CDN providers cost a lot of money though, so it is nothing for us mere mortals with one server can afford. But thanks to Google anyone can now run their own CDN for free on Googles servers. Lucky for you and me Google has made the process really painless and you can even have the CDN under you own domain name. In my case static.coderjournal.com.

What a developer needs from their manager

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:16:03 GMT

I've a read a lot of articles talking about what it takes to be a good development manager. There are also articles about what makes a good developer. I thought it would be a good idea to describe what a developer needs from their manager.

jQuery UI v1.5 Released

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Focus on Consistent API and Effects

Attributes? We don't need no stinkin' attributes

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:31:07 GMT

An explanation of how to use Ninject, the .NET dependency injector, to wire up dependencies without the use of the [Inject] attribute.

I finally get the point of inversion of control

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:31:02 GMT

A quick overview of IoC (with diagrams!).

Scrum Explained in 5 Minutes

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:01:02 GMT

PDF entitled "Scrum in Five Minutes" from http://www.softhouse.se/

Give Your ASP.NET Applications Velocity

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:16:03 GMT

Scaling ASP.NET Application just got easier with a new technology that Microsoft has just released that they have dubbed codename "Velocity". This product is still in the early stages of development, but it is meant as a direct competitor against memcache.

When the Going Gets Tough or How to Improve

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:31:02 GMT

How to improve yourself as a developer.

Exception handling best practices in ASP.NET web applications

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:31:08 GMT

Exception handling plays an important part of application management and user experience. If implemented correctly it can make maintenance easier and bring the user experience to a higher level. If not, it can be a disaster. The goal of this article is to provide an overview of what exception handling is from the user perspective and the perspective of people who maintain the application, and to show the best practices of how to implement useful error handling in ASP.NET web applications.

Professional Programming and who's a pundit

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:46:05 GMT

Hanselman sums it up as well as I've seen itdone.