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Asp.Net vs php : Speed Comparison

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:00:00 GMT

Why is the myth that php is faster than Asp.Net so prevalent? Asp.Net is faster than php, here are the facts. So many times I have heard php pushers claim that php is so much faster than Asp.Net and that Asp.Net is clunky and slow. The most annoying part is that everything I have read (that is not factless opinion), and I mean everything, says that this is wrong; but for some reason, this myth is widely accepted. It has become a religious argument that ignores the facts...

A F# console loop done functionally

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:12:34 GMT

Often when learning a new technology I start with a simple console application in which the program is run in a loop it continues to prompt you for more input until you give some command like quit or exit or whatever you choose. This is usually done using a while loop (which F# also supports) but in the true functional spirit lets see a more functional way to write one.

5 Useful Visual Studio C# Snippets

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:31:02 GMT

The title says it all. Save yourself sometime by using these snippets.

$(document).ready() and pageLoad() are not the same!

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:16:02 GMT

A few examples about how $(document).ready() and pageLoad() differ, practical examples of when both are useful, and a third alternative that is more suitable in some cases.

JQuery plugin to synchronize scrollbars

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:34:04 GMT

Shows a plugin for JQuery which allows you to synchronize the scrollbar movement on anynumber of elements. Just do $(".someClass").synchronizeScroll(); and you are done!

Is Nick Stakenburg Bullying His Open-Source 'Competitor'

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:16:02 GMT

This is obviously a scare tactic used by a vendor to frighten a 'competitor' who is encroachinig on his sales. Nick (the vendor) is jarred by the fact that someone has released a comparable (better?) product that his and it is free. It behaves somewhat the same, so obviously it was copied... This is a serious issue, we can't let companies push around open-source with threats like this.

Some xUnut.net Snippets

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:35:33 GMT

Some xUnit.net snippets for Visual Studio.

Develop .NET on MacOS X

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:46:02 GMT

A small information about .NET Development under Mac OS X with Mono

Making assumptions and not testing them

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:15:58 GMT

We all make certain assumptions about the behavior of peices of code. My experience reinforced why you must always write unit test and assert that these assumptions are true.

Visual Studio 2010 == Visual Studio 2008 + ReSharper

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:31:04 GMT

o you want the next gen of next-gen applications? Get the Visual Studio 2010 CTP! Which is - according to Microsoft itself - really just Visual Studio 2008 with ReSharper installed.

NHibernate.Linq Alpha Released

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:16:08 GMT

NHibernate.Linq is a Linq provider for NHibernate 2.0.1 GA. It processes Linq expressions using NHibernate's Criteria API. This release is meant as a stopgap release pending an implementation not reliant on the Criteria API. Most queries are supported with the exception of the following: - Group Joins - Subqueries in select clause

xVal - a validation framework for ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:46:03 GMT

xVal lets you link up your choice of server-side validation mechanism with your choice of client-side validation library. It guides you to fit them both into ASP.NET MVC conventions, so everything plays nicely with model binding and errors registered in ModelState.

Snippet Designer 1.1 Released

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:57:20 GMT

I just released Snippet Designer 1.1. This is not a major release but just some bug fixes and often requested changes to make the snippet designer more useful. Some of the most notable changes are: -Fixed some major bugs. -Many aspects of the plug in are now configurable through the options menu under Snippet Designer. -Several bug fixes to how the highlighting of replacements works and performance improvements with it also.

Resize Complete event for JQuery

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:06:07 GMT

Opera, Safari, IE and Firefox all have different behaviors when the resize event is fired. To fix this I wrote a resizeComplete event plugin for JQuery to allow you to handle once resizing is finished.

DotNetNuke Moves to CodePlex

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:46:02 GMT

Find out why the DotNetNuke project moved to CodePlex from SourceForge.

Inline Regular Expression Options

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:40:18 GMT

Did you know you can specify regular expression option inline inside the regular expression text? You can even have parts of one regular expression have different options!

XNA Game Studio 3.0

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:01:20 GMT

The good folks who put together our gaming tools have released XNA Game Studio 3.0.

LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:16:02 GMT

Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea.

Functional .NET - LINQ as a Monad

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:40:29 GMT

As part of my talk at the Richmond Code Camp earlier in October, I had the opportunity to talk about how to implement functional aspects in C# 3.0. This talk revolved around such concepts as from mutable to immutable, from inheritance to functional composition, and the mind shift that is required. Part of this discussion involved very briefly a talk about monads. It's a very misunderstood part of computer science and one of the most powerful concepts to learn. Much like continuation passing style, this style is often maligned as a result. But, let's work to change that.

Visual Studio Snippet Designer

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:16:23 GMT

Matthew Manela, an engineer on our Online Tools team, has created and released a free, community-based tool called the Snippet Designer. His tool is a Visual Studio add-in that allows you to create and edit snippets from inside the IDE.

Visual Studio snippet designer

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:46:02 GMT

Recently Microsoft released source code and compiled version of previously internal tool, that helps to create and manage code snippets in Visual Studio IDE

Snippet Designer for Visual Studio Released!

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:01:11 GMT

An open source plug-in for Visual Studio which adds the ability to edit code snippets in a rich integrated way. It also adds the Snippet Explorer tool window which allows you to easily search for snippet files on your computer.

Using SQL CE with LINQ to SQL

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:36:41 GMT

Shows how to correctly use LINQ to SQL with SQL CE.

Improve CollectionView Sorting Performance in WPF

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:24:46 GMT

A simple technique to minimize the number of refreshes to a collection view by using the DeferRefresh method.

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:01:02 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.