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The Complete Reference for Any jQuery Developer

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:31:02 GMT

If you ever to do something with jQuery, you should find it in this extensive list.

Foundations of Programming - Learning Application

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:46:10 GMT

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.

MSDN Ramp Up and Certification Exam Discount

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:30:57 GMT

MSDN has a developer learning program called Ramp Up. The award for finishing the program is a 50% discount on certification exam 70-536 and other discounts.

Scale Cheaply - Sharding

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:16:05 GMT

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.

Foundations of Programming Ebook

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Covering the basics of good programming.

Deep Fried Bytes: Episode 3: Twitter War Stories

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:31:06 GMT

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.

AjaxControlToolkit TabContainer Theme Gallery

Thu, 22 May 2008 19:56:17 GMT

A catalog of multiple themes created by Matt Berseth for the AjaxControlToolkit's TabContainer control. Themes include "Google Analytics", "Opera", "LinkedIn", and more.

Bulk Inserting Data with the ListView Control

Thu, 22 May 2008 19:53:25 GMT

Great looking demo of Excel-styled grid to allow bulk inserting of data.

Technology Round Table Podcast - "Hello World" Edition

Thu, 22 May 2008 06:37:57 GMT

Looking for feedback for our new podcast.

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

Thu, 22 May 2008 02:17:22 GMT

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.

11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation

Mon, 19 May 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Over five years ago I posted Tips for a Successful MSFT Presentation. Yesterday I watched the video of my Mix Presentation all the way through. It's always very painful to hear one's own voice but it's even worse to watch yourself. I never listen to my podcast and I avoid watching myself. It's like watching a person in parallel universe and it inspires self-loathing. However, if you are someone who values continuous improvement - and I am - you need to do the uncomfortable.

Visual Studio Usability Tip: Highlight Current Line

Sat, 17 May 2008 23:01:02 GMT

A small tweak you can make to your Visual Studio color scheme to help you navigate your code faster... maybe.

Using a Windows Service just to run a scheduled process is Wrong!

Sat, 10 May 2008 17:46:02 GMT

A classic post by Jon Galloway: A Windows Service is the wrong solution to scheduling one-off custom processes. The right solution for scheduling simple processes is the Windows Task Scheduler.

Free Tool - Extract Hard Coded Strings to Resource Files

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

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

Google AdSense Advertising - eeech...

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Rick Strahl has a great post questioning how much fraud Google actually lets through with AdSense.

6 steps to successful Continuous Integration

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Very good of concrete steps which should be performed to enjoy continuous integration

How to Branch Properly

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Good discussion of source code branching specifically with Subversion.

How to set an IIS Application or AppPool to use ASP.NET 3.5 rather tha

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:22:35 GMT

Includes good description of what is included in the different versions of the .NET framework.

Matt Berseth: Building a VS2008 Styled Grid with the ListView

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

Great article from Matt Berseth

Minimal requirements for 'Good' Software

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Good software isn't just the code, it's the care and feeding of the code. It's important that the code can be found, built, and deployed repeatably by someone other than the original developer.

Wireshark 1.0 Released

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:01:04 GMT

Official 1.0 release of this free network protocol analyzer. Formerly known as Ethereal.

It does not take a Superstar - Developer types enumerated

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:38:06 GMT

Discussion of the author's take on different programmer types.

7 Tips To Become a Microsoft Technical Evangelist

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:53:09 GMT

Here is a nice article by Thomas Lewis on 7 Tips to Become a Microsoft Technical Evangelist.

NDepend - Static analysis on steroids

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Good review of NDepend code analysis tool including screenshots.

Number of Microsoft Certified Professionals Worldwide

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:45:01 GMT

Contains numbers of individuals who have attained various levels of Microsoft Certifications.