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YUI Compressor for Visual Studio

Wed, 13 May 2009 04:01:14 GMT

Add a custom tool in visual studio for YUI Compressor.

Software Startup Lessons (Part 7) - Versatility

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:01:04 GMT

Today we'll talk about of the key lessons that we learned in university that helped us during the first two years of our business: versatility.

Software Startup Lessons (Part 6) - Looking back at one failure

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:16:02 GMT

After a few months, we've decided to kill a project and call it a failure. Read more about the project's postmortem note in this article.

Being a software startup in a recession

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:01:02 GMT

Lessons learned about being a software startup in a recession.

Software Startup Lessons (Part 4) - Year Two

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:01:02 GMT

LavaBlast is now two years old. Part 4 in our series shares lessons learned during our second year of operation.

Migration from IIS6 + SQL 2005 (32-bit) to IIS7 + SQL 2008 (64-bit)

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:01:04 GMT

A few main issues encountered during our migration from IIS6 + SQL 2005 (32-bit) to IIS7 + SQL 2008 (64-bit).

What Constitutes Ethical SEO?

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:31:02 GMT

As a web developer / someone who has a blog, I understand dealing with spam is one of the necessary evils of having a comments enabled on my site. Too often, SEO companies use unscrupulous tactics in the name of website optimization. What is the best way to prevent link spammers from overrunning your site?

Declare your ObjectDataSource using lambda expressions

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:55:47 GMT

Configure your ObjectDataSource TypeName, SelectMethod, SelectParameters from a lambda expression. Here is a simple example: ObjectDataSource ods; ods.SetSelectMethod<ProductController>(ctrl => ctrl.FetchAll());

Software usability is like eggnog

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:09:30 GMT

Creating a proper usability study is hard.

Back to Basics: Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:46:10 GMT

Great article on .NET basics

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 2

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:16:04 GMT

Rob Conery: Over the last week I've made massive improvements and upgrades to SubSonic 3.0 and the templates that it comes with. I haven't been this obsessive and inspired since I created SubSonic in the first place, and I have to tell you I am more than stoked to see this pull together.

Gotcha: ASP.NET and exceptions in asynchronous threads

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:50:32 GMT

If an unhandled exception occurs in a secondary thread which has been launched by your ASP.NET application, IIS will force your application to restart.

Free Winforms and ASP.NET Chart Controls

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:31:02 GMT

Directly from Microsoft

Gotcha: WebKit (Safari 3 and Google Chrome) Bug with ASP.NET AJAX

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:22:08 GMT

ASP.NET AJAX breaks down completely in some circumstances when using WebKit-based browsers. Reference the JavaScript provided below to solve these problems.

SQL Server - Restore a database backup via the command line

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:16:02 GMT

This article presents how an SQL Server 2005 database can be restored from the command line with one quick batch file. Ex: restore.bat LavaBlast

ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:31:04 GMT

You can setup continuous integration and automated deployment for your web application using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy. I will show you how you can automatically build the entire solution, email build report to developers and QA, deploy latest code in IIS all using CruiseControl.NET every N minutes.

jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:16:03 GMT

news today: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate development but they will be providing it as a core piece of their platform for developers to build with.

Lutz Reflector now owned by Red Gate

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:01:05 GMT

Lutz Reflector, the free .NET disassembler every developer developer should have, has been purchased by Red Gate software. Red Gate has stated they will continue to provide the tool for free.

SubSonic Scaling

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:31:11 GMT

Rob runs some tests with millions of records to see how SubSonic holds up with respect to speed and memory use.

Why I Am No Longer Supporting IE6

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:46:03 GMT

In the recent relaunch of this site, I created a new custom skin for Subtext. Since this is just a personal site, I threw things together fairly quickly, testing along the way with Firefox3 and IE7. Once I was getting closer to complete, I took a look at my new site in all the usual browsers, including IE6. Ugh, it looked terrible. I gave it some thought and made some decisions about supporting IE6. I'm not going to support it. Not on this site and not on others that I have a say in. I'm not talking about leaving my site unusable for IE6 users - they just won't get as good of an experience. I'm not alone with this decision. Read on to see why I am no longer supporting IE6.

ASP.NET gets no Respect

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:16:11 GMT

Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!

BlogEngine.net Post Security

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:46:10 GMT

BlogEngine.net 1.3/1.4 supports user roles. But we can't seem to be able to make it mandatory for users to sign in to see blog posts. That's not something you usually want on a public blog, but maybe for a corporate blog.

ASP.NET Browsers Filter!!

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:16:03 GMT

Yesterday .NET SP1 released and many new features for ASP.NET where added. But yesterday i also discovered a feature that ASP.NET has from version 2.0 Let's say we have a button. We can decide what value will the properties have for different browsers!!! And we can do that with this way...

SubSonic v2.1 Controller and Utilities

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:16:02 GMT

Recently, SubSonic v2.1 was released and we upgraded the code we've previously published to support this new version.

jQuery Content Slider Tutorial

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:46:02 GMT

This tutorial shows how to make an horizontal content slider with jQuery and a plugin called jFlow.