Foundations of Programming - Learning Application

codebetter.com — If you're anything like me, you probably learn a lot better by going through code rather than reading books. I'm happy to release the Foundations of Programming Learning Application - it's a complete solution meant to show what was covered in the Foundations series. read more...

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Scale Cheaply - Sharding

codebetter.com — There are a lot of expensive ways to scale your database – all of which are highly touted by the big three database vendors because, well, they want to sell you all types of really expensive stuff. Despite what an “engagement consultant” might tell you though, most of the high-traffic websites on the web (google, digg, facebook) rely on far cheaper and better strategies: the core of which is called sharding. read more...

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Deep Fried Bytes: Episode 3: Twitter War Stories

deepfriedbytes.com — A group of Twitter power users met up on the last day of the TechEd 2008 Conference. They sat down with Deep Fried Bytes host and Twitter user Keith Elder to discuss their ideas, experiences and observations of the online service. Each person has their own reason for using Twitter but they all share a common theme. They all use Twitter to keep in touch with their friends and stay connected to keep relationships thriving. read more...

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Bulk Inserting Data with the ListView Control

submitted by mjpalad 2 months, 30 days ago

mattberseth.com — Great looking demo of Excel-styled grid to allow bulk inserting of data. read more...

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Create In-line Data Editing with the ASP.NET 3.5 ListView Control

submitted by crpietschmann 3 months ago

mattberseth.com — I am lovin' the total control the ListView control is giving me. This past week a link to Telerik's new RadGrid control was floating around the office - and the general consensus was that the in-line editing capabilities control was pretty cool. And I completely agree - the in-line edit feature is pretty useful. But ... you don't need to buy the RadGrid to create a grid like this. ASP.NET 3.5's ListView control provides excellent out of the box support for scenarios like this. read more...

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Visual Studio Usability Tip: Highlight Current Line

published 3 months, 4 days ago, submitted by ussherm 3 months, 5 days ago

stevenharman.net — A small tweak you can make to your Visual Studio color scheme to help you navigate your code faster... maybe. read more...

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Free Tool - Extract Hard Coded Strings to Resource Files

dev102.com — A Microsoft tool - Resource Refactoring Tool. This tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files. read more...

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6 steps to successful Continuous Integration

mjedynak.blogspot.com — Very good of concrete steps which should be performed to enjoy continuous integration read more...

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