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10 most Useful resources for jQuery across the web

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:16:58 GMT

good resource list

7 Great Free ASP.NET Controls and Libraries

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:00:42 GMT

List of free controls and libraries for web development in asp.net. Includes mapping, captcha and json related resources.

Retaining your best people

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:43:33 GMT

You can replace equipment, infrastructure, tools, etc but at the end of the day it's the people i.e. human capital which is the critical success factor in today's competitive environment. Retaining key talent is one of the topmost priorities for all successful managers. In spite of the obviousness of this crucial responsibility, many organizations suffer from the 'leaking reservoir' syndrome. Most organizations have come to accept that it is acceptable to lose a percentage of good employees over a period of time - which is true to a great extent. The problem begins, however, when the crack in the reservoir becomes so huge that replacing people becomes a full-time endeavor and leaves little time to do anything else. A certain percentage of time invested in building strategies for growing and retaining your people in the long run prevents the talent leak from growing and saves you a lot of time and pain in plugging the hole later.

An exhuastive ASP.Net Error Handler

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:27:26 GMT

An exhaustive asp.net error emailer - it will email you with everything you possibly need to debug the error, from the error message details, to the process' identity, to the current appdomain information! And its free!

Ditching the Micro-Optimization Fetish

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:01:02 GMT

Seems like today is the day for performance optimization talks: in String.Empty, in calls to ActionLinks, in high-performance IoC containers. But people sometimes miss the point that these are micro-optimizations: thanks God Justin tries to bring a bit of sanity in this geeky world of micro-optimization

BookFlip Effect with ASP.Net Listview Control

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:36:54 GMT

Aneef Explains how to create a javascript bookflip using ASP.Net 3.5 Listview Control .

Fluent ADO.NET (there's actually a good reason for it!)

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:46:02 GMT

More DAL silliness, but for a good reason. The author was restricted from using an ORM by his client so he came up with a cool way to make his life a little easier. Pretty cool. Scratch that itch!

C# Design Patterns - The Visitor Pattern

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:31:02 GMT

One principle that I really like is the Open/Closed principle which says that an object should be open to new functionality but closed to structural changes. The visitor pattern helps facilitate this principle by giving us the means to perform operations against an object without changing the objects structure. Looking back at a previous pattern we wanted to adjust the registration cost for a dog if they had been picked up by the dog catcher.

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:46:02 GMT

Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It's time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it's useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and before you announce your website to the world.

Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using ASP.NET 3.5,jQuery,Silverlight,Linq,Unity

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:16:04 GMT

Learn how to build a Web 2.0 AJAX portal just like Google IG using jQuery, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, Workflow Foundation and Unity

Essential LINQ Published

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:01:02 GMT

There was a knock on my door this morning. By the time I could make it to the front of the house, the delivery man was gone, but he had left behind a box full red and white books, each with the title Essential LINQ. On the cover was my name, and the name of my good friend Dinesh Kulkarni. This was, of course, a box full of the first copies of my most recent book. They had a arrived at my house on a most propitious date: the first day of spring.

It's Not a "Bug", It's a Defect

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:47:06 GMT

The days of problems being caused by insects getting crushed in mechanical switches are far behind us - these days, if there's a problem with software, it was put there by a programmer. It didn't crawl in and it didn't "develop" - it's a result of someone's screw-up.

10 C# Shorthands that improve productivity

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:46:02 GMT

One of the best things about C# is that as the language and libraries expand thought is put into keeping things readable. Below I have listed 10 shorthands that you can use to make your code tighter and less wordy. No doubt you know one or more already - but do you currently use all ten of them ?

Optimize ASP.NET Membership Stored Procedures for greater speed and sc

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET Membership stored proc are not fine tuned for high load. So, under heavy load - the major tables like aspnet_Users and aspnet_Membership produces lock contention and transaction deadlocks. Learn how to solve this.

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

C# Design Patterns - The Facade Pattern

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:16:10 GMT

In our city dog registration application lets assume there are a few things that need to be done when a new dog is registered. First the new dog and it's owners must be entered into the system. Next the registration fee must be processed. Finally, we want the system to send the owners the welcome email. This is a very simple example but this action requires 3 separate systems to do something in order to complete this one task of registering a new dog.

.NET - Health Monitoring in ASP.NET 3.5

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:31:02 GMT

I am a big advocate on less is more, and when it comes to writing code to monitor an ASP.NET application, less code is definitely more. As a developer, once you have finished developing your application and it's deployed into production, you'll need to monitor it and have it notify you when something goes wrong. There are several ways to do this, from utilising the global.asax file to writing custom classes. But a little known feature in ASP.NET is health monitoring. This gives you the ability to monitor the health of an ASP.NET application. This article won't delve into the specifics of creating your own custom health monitoring class, but it will focus on what is available to ASP.NET developers out of the box.

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.

Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:16:03 GMT

A nice collection of puzzles. Some are harder than others so there is something for everyone. You can choose any language you want, you will see that there are solutions in C#, Ruby, Python, Visual Basic, SQL, JavaScript, C++ and other languages.

Why You Want To Be A Craftsman Instead Of A Cowboy

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:01:02 GMT

I was a bit surprised at first to hear Jeff and Joel's comments because they are some smart guys that have produced some successful software. I highly doubt, regardless of how it came across, they intended to imply that you should ignore all guidelines and just string together your code. Unfortunately, the comments of their posts make it all too clear that this is exactly the way a lot of programmers took it. What's worse is bad programmers will use this as a defense for their resistance to improving their skills.

Visitor Pattern

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:45:46 GMT

Design Patterns for Dummies - The Visitor Pattern

Suicidal Programming

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:18:49 GMT

Coding all day long? be afraid, be very afraid!

Caching Application Block and database backing store

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:33:16 GMT

Caching can help to overcome some of the challenges associated with enterprise-scale distributed web applications: Performance - Caching improves application performance by storing relevant data as close as possible to the data consumer. This avoids repetitive data creation, processing and transportation Scalability - Storing information in a cache helps save resources and increases scalability as the demands on the application increase Availability - By storing data in a local cache, the application may be able to survive system failures such as network latency, web service problems, and hardware failures