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Top 5 Useful Utilities / Applications for Developers

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:45:29 GMT

A simple list of 5 incredibly useful appliacations for developers / support experts / power-users. These get installed on almost every pc i touch!

Why Good Developers Are Not Getting 10 times the Pay?

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:00:24 GMT

The productivity gap between the good developers and the bad ones can be very huge. But why good developers are not getting significantly more than the bad ones?

Improving the SEO of your blog

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:16:02 GMT

Did you know that yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com are actually different sites? Are they both serving the same content? If so, it may be negatively impacting your search engine rankings. Using HTTP 301 redirects, you can combine these synonymous URLs to increase your page ranking.

Using System.Web.Abstractions in Your WebForms Apps

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:31:14 GMT

Check out how to use the System.Web.Abstractions assembly in your ASP.NET WebForms applications!

Have you ever wondered why CodePlex is so slow?

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:31:21 GMT

Taking a look at one feature on CodePlex that is much slower than it needs to be, due to indiscriminate use of UpdatePanels and bloated ViewState, and then comparing it to similar functionality on Stack Overflow to illustrate how much more efficiently the same feature can be implemented.

How I've put my wife into SVN

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:31:14 GMT

SVN and TortoiseSVN are really great tools. It is a shame that these tools are used only by developers. I believe that every home should use SVN to keep track of it's files. The problem is that these tools are planned for developers. Using the file-system in windows is not a trivial task for everyone. In fact, sometimes people tend to be afraid of it. Not only using the file-system, but also using some client application that does not even have a window? And where do I get an SVN server anyway?!? Keep reading. you might find it useful.

The Private Life of a Public API

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:46:13 GMT

Developing a public API on .NET is hard work, but it can be rewarding. Some reflections on the "Framework Design Guidelines"

Writing Testable Time Dependent Code

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:46:06 GMT

In this post, Tuna shares his ideas on how to write testable time dependent code.

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:22:13 GMT

For the past few years I have been wrestling with legacy code, on and off. Having dealing with legacy code for so long, I know how painful it is to work with legacy code . But sometimes you just can't ignore it; it is lying on your path and you have to refactor it into something that can be read, maintained and expanded.

Filtering You Data Using Predicates

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:01:12 GMT

A while back I wrote an article about How to sort data by manipulating the view only, This article will handle filtering the data without changing it.

Who Called Me?

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:16:08 GMT

Sometimes it is important to understand what method called other method. In ths post I will show you an easy way to do that.

Signs of a GOOD Manager / Team Lead

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:16:02 GMT

Characteristics / attitudes / process of good management & leadership: 1) Have a passion about technology but

Potential JQuery Intellisense's Bug?

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:10:33 GMT

For the past few days I was wrestling with my VS 2008 IDE, in order to get the JQuery Intellisense to work. It was a very hard battle for me.

Haacked: ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:31:10 GMT

"In this post, I want to provide a definitive guide to getting ASP.NET MVC running on IIS 6. I will walk through using the .mvc or .aspx file extension for URLs first, then I will walkthrough using extension-less URLs."

Unit Testing in JavaScript

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:28:44 GMT

Last week a colleague asked for my help finding better unit test tools for Java Script. He's done some digging on the state of the art with JavaScript unit tests and finds the whole lot wanting...

Software Developers In a Rush

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:31:12 GMT

Peter Norvig , the director of research at Google, wrote an article Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years . He asked why everyone was in such a rush to learn programming languages in a hurry, resulting in an endless offering of books, websites, blogs that promised to teach programming in 24 hours or 7 days.

Stupid NUnit Tricks #3 Foiled!

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:16:12 GMT

Revelation of a CLR bug.

The problem with SVN

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:01:02 GMT

Are you working on the most recent code? Read more...

Tip about jQuery $.extend

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:46:18 GMT

The story, about how to use $.extend jQuery method, to derive classes

4 Steps To Ensure You're The Worst Developer Ever!

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:46:05 GMT

There are lots of articles about improving your skills as a developer. Everyone likes to talk about how to strengthen their skills and produce really good software. But, what if you want to be the worst developer ever? Nobody seems to want to share those secrets.

Deploy ASP.NET MVC App on Windows XP (IIS 5.1)

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:11:11 GMT

Deploying ASP.NET MVC application on Windows XP is definitely not easy; there are a lot of settings that need to be tuned. Not only that the application must be changed as well.

jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 - ScottGu's Blog

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:31:20 GMT

Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery. Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free). This is now available to download and use.

Pair Programming - Marketing FAIL

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:01:05 GMT

When people talk about lack of adoption of "XP" (aka Extreme Programming) practices, one of the chief problems people have with it is the idea of "Pair Programming"

Emergent Complexity

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:31:04 GMT

Why is it that our well designed systems seem to fall into chaos so easily?

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:31:02 GMT

"At the users group I asked the question to the group 'who creates automated tests as part of their daily development cycle?'. After I asked this question I followed it up with, and if you don't WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY...... Below are some of the answers I received (btw, not the first time I have heard these reasons)."