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Functional Optimistic Concurrency in C#

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:59:12 GMT

A brief look at how functional programming can help make your C# code more elegant, expressive, and powerful through the common scenario of database optimistic concurrency.

Business for geeks: Naming your software company

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:31:03 GMT

A second post in the series about starting a software development tools company covering the process undertaken in picking the name of the company. Covers points to consider when picking a name for your own software brand. This isn't strictly code but might be interesting for entrepreneurial .net geeks out there.

Starting out - The story of starting a software tools company

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:01:10 GMT

Not strictly about coding, this post talks about starting a business that builds tools for software developers (in this case, tools for developers on the Microsoft stack). Covers some of the lessons learned and experiences in the first few months.

Mindscape releases open source ASP.NET MVC extensions

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:01:03 GMT

Mindscape have released an open source library with a collection of helpful extensions to make developing solutions with the ASP.NET MVC framework easier. Attention has been paid to ensuring it's easy to deliver solutions based on LightSpeed but there is also significant samples and code for developers working on MVC solutions with other domain modeling tools. Patches and suggestions are welcome.

ioDrive, Changing the Way You Code

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:31:07 GMT

A look at the new ioDrive device and how devices like it will drastically change how you think about performance critical data storage applications.

Single table and concrete table inheritance with LightSpeed ORM

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:46:02 GMT

One of the benefits of working with an O/R Mapper is the ability to use inheritance and have your objects still persist to the database. In this post, Mindscape explains the difference between two types of relational inheritance - Single Table and Concrete Table. The post also demonstrates how to create these models using the LightSpeed O/R Mapper.

Abstracting Away Azure: How to Run Outside of the Cloud

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:18:22 GMT

A high level view of how to design your applications so you can some day run them outside of the Azure cloud.

LightSpeed 2.2 Released

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:31:11 GMT

LightSpeed 2.2 O/R Mapper has been released with support for SimpleDB, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, stored procedures support and much more. This post covers many of the new features, all of which are included in the free edition.

Put down the abstract factory and get something done

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:52:51 GMT

A post about over architecting and where your priorities should lie in software development.

Concurrency. It's like doing the dishes.

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:07:10 GMT

It's difficult to describe optimistic and pessimistic concurrency models to either a developer that's new to the space or a non-technical person. But it's just like doing the dishes!

ASP.NET MVC sucks and so does jQuery and PHP

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:56:25 GMT

A follow up to the popular '10 reasons asp.net webforms sucks' posting.

Fire and Forget Email, Webservices and more in ASP.NET

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:32:23 GMT

Ever want to send an email or make a web service call and not have it slow down the page load process? The author presents a simple method for doing so along with a clear description of what's going on under the hood.

Using SimpleDB from a .NET O/R Mapper

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:01:09 GMT

.NET folk interested in working with SimpleDB can now use the LightSpeed O/R Mapper to work easily with their data in the cloud. This post show how to get started working with SimpleDB and highlights the additional capabilities that an O/R Mapper can bring.

10 Reasons ASP.NET Webforms Suck

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:46:05 GMT

I think the title says it all. A great rant from an experienced ASP.NET developer.

Debugging a power outage

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:30:14 GMT

A story about debugging an ASP.NET application after a server farm crashes and starts performing poorly and uncovering the unlikely culprit.

A SQL Table Manhunt

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:09:43 GMT

A simple tidbit of SQL code to help you track down tables/files that are having I/O related performance issues.

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

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:31:02 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.

ShortGuid - A shorter and url friendly GUID class in C#

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:46:08 GMT

Extending Mads Kristensens "shorter and URL friendly GUID"

For Loops: Using i++, ++i, Enumerators, or None of the Above?

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:01:02 GMT

A quest to move away from the 50 year old style of "for loops" and embrace newer ways of getting the same job done.

A Sorted Affair: History of the C# Sort

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:16:02 GMT

I often have the joy of dealing with other people's code that was originally written in C# 1.0 and am continually amazed by how much better the language has become in a few short years. This example represents the evolution of sorting a simple list in C#. From 50+ lines of code, down to one. Wow, what a change!

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:31:02 GMT

ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster. Furthermore, ASP.NET Http pipeline can be tweaked to avoid executing unnecessary code that gets hit on each and every request...

ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Route builder Released

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:16:02 GMT

This is a simple HTTPModule that allows you to place your routing rules in web.config were they belong.

An Upcoming Asynchronous Facebook Library

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:33:09 GMT

This article introduces a new library called fbasync designed for building scalable Facebook applications in ASP.NET. It goes into basic usage of the library and explains the advantages of using an asynchronous architecture.

ASP.NET MVC Design Philosophy

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:31:02 GMT

A great post from Eilon about the philosophy and approach to MVC in ASP.NET...

MVC Membership Basics

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:46:03 GMT

Getting Register, Login, and Logout working in the recently released ASP.Net MVC framework. Downloadable code samples included.