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Learning new Programmming Languages and Technologies

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Recently, I've read article after article about how part of being a good software developer is about being open to new technologies, and to "learn new things" - and I'd be foolish not to agree. However...

11 keystrokes that made my jQuery selector run 10x faster

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:15:00 GMT

An in-depth analysis of the performance concerns when using a popular jQuery selector and a couple ways to dramatically speed it up, including benchmarks.

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 9, 2009

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Daily tech links for dotnet and related technologies.

22 Visual Studio Short Keys and 6 Short-cut Ways to Custom Jobs

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:15:00 GMT

Efficient programmers use short keys in IDE like Visual Studio. This saves time and in many cases makes the work run faster also. I also love short keys. They are smart! And there also go some tricks that help make your visual studio days a party! I have listed here some short cuts and some tips with the hope that this will be helpful to you all.

Creating a Tag Cloud using ASP.NET MVC and the Entity Framework

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:45:01 GMT

A Tag Cloud is a visual depiction of Tags or categories on a web site. CSS is used to set the variable font size of each Tag to illustrate its relative frequency or popularity within the site. As part of the migration of my site to ASP.NET MVC, I am introducing one to replace the Categories navigation that appears on the left hand side of each page, which contains a count of items within each category.

Free T4 Editor for your ASP.NET MVC T4 Templates available

Sat, 09 May 2009 01:01:06 GMT

Found on tangible blog, that the new tangible T4 Editor 1.4 FREE EDITION now includes full Intelli-Sense support for MVC Host and related namespaces used in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM T4 Templates. In addition it provides a nice highlighting for ASP.NET and T4 Code. Seems like anyone can now edit MVC T4 Templates with full comfort without investing a penny. Awesome!

Future of Business Intelligence and Databases

Mon, 11 May 2009 05:31:02 GMT

The term business intelligence (BI) was coined by Howard Dresner in the early 1990s. He defined Business Intelligence as "a set of concepts and methodologies to improve decision making in business through use of facts and fact-based systems." In a time when data warehousing was considered leading-edge he created the vision that led to the development of business intelligence, as it is known today. The once visionary BI is now commonplace and in near future a momentous transformation is about to take place. BI is all set to bring information democracy where end users across an organization will be able to view information related to their segment. Further, with the rising consumer expectations there will be demand for capability requirements of BI as well.

Learning the Observer Pattern

Fri, 08 May 2009 07:46:08 GMT

Taking a look at how we can use the Observer Pattern in our application. The Observer pattern allows you to define a one-to-many relationship inside your application where the parent object (the one) has the ability to notify the child objects (the many) of any state change. You can utilize this pattern to make sure that a set of objects are keep in order when there behavior needs to change based on the state of your application.

More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices

Wed, 06 May 2009 21:16:02 GMT

In this post, I'll share some of the best practices and guidelines which I have come across while developing ASP.NET MVC web applications. I will not cover all best practices that are available, instead add some specific things that have not been mentioned in any blog post out there. Existing best practices can be found on Kazi Manzur Rashid's blog and Simone Chiaretta's blog.

Using jQuery Validation in ASP.NET Master Pages

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:01:03 GMT

jQuery has a Validation plug-in which is full of features and is quite flexible. However the name mangling in ASP.NET Master Pages presents interesting challenges in using this plug-in and I could not find a working solution on the net. In this article, I will demonstrate how to use the jQuery Validation plug-in with Master Pages

6 Tools To Be An Effective Web Developer

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:01:02 GMT

There has always been and probably always will be feuds over what is the best platform but what I want to show you is that those arguments are mostly irrelevant. Regardless of what platform you choose to develop on there are most of the same tools available in one form or another. The common components, for me anyway, that help me produce high quality code faster and is easier to maintain are a good IDE, easy to use unit testing and mocking frameworks, an ORM, a MVC framework, and a good JavaScript library.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 has been released!

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:31:02 GMT

To keep up with a good tradition (see here and here), I'm being one of the earliest bloggers having great news on ASP.NET MVC: we are at version 1.0! This means production ready, supported, stable, .! Grab the download at Microsoft.com.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:01:26 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM is released

Aspect Oriented Programming in C#.NET: Part II

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:16:02 GMT

This article is the continuation of the Part I. We will continue with the same problem of the Customer Sales application discussed in Part I.

Retrieving data from a REST based service using C

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:31:02 GMT

A short overview on how you can retrieve data from a REST based service using C#.

Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:16:02 GMT

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now - announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I've been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox. The book is now in production, and will be available to buy in stores soon

What's the difference between CONST and READONLY in .Net?

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:01:16 GMT

Ever sit around talking to your co-workers about random things, when all of a sudden you ask "What's the difference between const and readonly in .Net?". If so, you are not alone. If not, well, you're just weird.

6 Things Developers Should Know By 2010

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:16:02 GMT

A list of 6 things I think asp.net developers should know by 2010

Select top n rows from a table for each group

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:31:02 GMT

Suppose you want to get the top two products from each manufacturer which have the best promotional price

12+ open source projects for .NET you probably didn't know about.

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:01:02 GMT

Here's a few of the better .NET open source projects which are making a difference to .NET developers worldwide, and it just shows that the open source .NET community is alive and well.

Back to Basics: Interfaces

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:46:09 GMT

When it comes to object-oriented programming there are few concepts as basic and important as interfaces. Only recently though, and at a snails pace, have .NET developers started to take advantage of the simple benefits interfaces have to offer. This interest stems from the core role interfaces play in some pretty hot topics, including: dependency injection, unit testing and mocking (to name a few).

Use jQuery to catch and display ASP.NET AJAX service errors

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:46:05 GMT

An example of how to detect errors that occur when requesting ASP.NET AJAX web services and page methods with jQuery, how to handle them, and how to more attractively present errors to the user.

15 Most Interesting jQuery Tutorials

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:01:04 GMT

This time we collected the most interesting jQuery tutorials.

jQuery

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:31:03 GMT

This post looks into client side grid implentation using jTemplate to achieve high performance grid. It also talks about how to add additional features like paging, sorting and filtering to this client side grid. Its a highly detailed post.

ASP.NET - YSlow and ASP.NET: 100 points "A" grade is possible

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:46:02 GMT

Just in case if somebody doesn't know what YSlow is? YSlow is Firefox add-on integrated with Firebug. It analyzes web pages and tells you why they are slow. You can run it on you project and see your grade. You can do some easy improvements and maybe even get D grade. However to get higher then D grade becomes a real challenge. Below I will describe how I got A grade (100 points) on my web blog application.