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High maintenance code

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:20:34 GMT

Whenever you write a method think about the contract of that method. What burdens are you imposing upon the caller? Are they reasonable burdens? The purpose of a method should be to make the caller's life easier; the original version of Lines() makes life harder on the caller. The new version makes life easier. Don't write high-maintenance methods.

Building Firefox Plugins using Visual Studio

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:01:01 GMT

If you use Visual studio as a development environment and want to develop plugins for Firefox here are a few points to help you get started.

What is your strategy for becoming a better developer?

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:31:19 GMT

Let me know what your best habits, tricks, info sources, etc.... that you have which make you a better developer. And the top three are going to get a copy of "The Pragmatic Programmer" in order to make themselves a better developer.

Fun - Wedding In SQL Style

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:08:54 GMT

Smile please, hey guys I received this query through email from one of my friend. It looks great and funny; I am sharing it with you. Dedicated to all techies :)

SQL - Step By Step Installation of SQL Server 2008

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:01:04 GMT

Step by step installation of Microsoft SQL server 2008.

ASP.NET - Connecting asp.net to mysql database

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:16:52 GMT

This article wil tell you how to create a database in mysql and how to connect that database to an ASP.NET application. :)

Survey Using jQuery Star Rating Widget

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:32:46 GMT

Survey using the jQuery Star Rating Widget. With a little work and jQuery magic I came away with a survey that looks good, provides the ability to add an explanation when the user selects a value on the the low end of the scale and degrades fairly gracefully when JavaScript is disabled.

250+ .NET Interview FAQ's for Developers

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:16:11 GMT

A comprehensive list of 'good' ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET and .NET Framework questions for beginners and experienced people. Also a good read for people who want to refresh their memory with .NET concepts or take interviews on a regular basis.

Free SQL Server Videos

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:31:10 GMT

Free Training and Videos for Microsoft SQL Server. Hours of content covering tips and tricks, along with a whole slew of videos on backups. The site is still growing and there's an RSS feed you can use to be updated of newly added videos.

Firefox - Must have Add-ons

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:33:54 GMT

This article introduces some cool and good add-ons for Firefox which help us to improve surfing experience and also helps in web development.

ASP.NET - Using "radio button" inside grid view

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:35:53 GMT

This article explains how to use radio-button with gridview in asp.net2.0......

JavaScript - Bookmark web page

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:27:33 GMT

This story will tell you about bookmarking and how to implement it in web pages using javascript...

CSS - Creating icons for web page using CSS & XHTML

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:03:23 GMT

This article tells that how to make icons using CSS and XHTML, which we can use in our asp.net websites.

101 Great Computer Programming Quotes

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:31:02 GMT

"I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing." (Oktal)

What's New in ASP.NET 2.0?

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:03:23 GMT

Some of the new features in ASP.NET 2.0 are: * Master Pages, Themes, and Web Parts * Standard controls for navigation * Standard controls for security * Roles, personalization, and internationalization services * Improved and simplified data access controls * Full support for XML standards like, XHTML, XML, and WSDL * Improved compilation and deployment (installation) * Improved site management * New and improved development tools

ELMAH - Error Logging Modules And Handlers

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:16:02 GMT

Simone Busoli does a detailed overview of the ELMAH open source project.

VisualSVN Server

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:31:11 GMT

The guys that already made VisualSVN, a plugin that integrates into Visual Studio and provides a way to manage your source code changes into Subversion, just realized VisualSVN Server.

7 of Hardest Things I Learned About Writing Software

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:31:04 GMT

Learning to write code is not that hard. With a book, Google, and a little free time just about anyone can hack something together. However, to become a good software developer you need a passion to constantly and continually learn.

A site that should be in every web developers bookmarks: smashingmagaz

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:16:03 GMT

Came accross this site and it really is a wealth of resource on all things webby, from inspiration and design, to scripting this is a place a web developer will enjoy Here is a list of their most popular articles: # 80 AJAX Solutions # 80 Professional Typefaces # 70 Expert CSS Ideas # 53 CSS-Techniques # 60 Elegant, Appealing Designs # 50 Beautiful Web-Designs # 50 Simple Web-Designs # 45 Excellent Blog Designs # 45 Fresh, Clean Designs # 30 Dark Designs # 30 Usability Issues # 35 Designers x 5 Questions # 20 Free Icon Sets # 200+ Hotkeys # 170 Developer Ideas So if this place is not in your bookmarks already, its a resource well worth checking out!

RSS Feed with the new ASP.NET MVC Framework

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:31:02 GMT

Building RSS feed busing ASP.NET MVC

Exploring one of MS AJAX's often overlooked features.

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:16:03 GMT

A closer examination of ASP.NET AJAX's $addHandler function and several real world examples of its use.

Add automatic updates to your application

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:46:02 GMT

Automatic updates system for client-side, distributed applications.

ASP.NET Rich Text Editor Control

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:46:02 GMT

Kannan Sundararajan, Microsoft, has written a Rich Text Editor control using ASP.NET and JavaScript and shared it under the MS-PL license on CodePlex. It has a very rich feature set and Kannan hopes to enhance it further in the future. Features: * Clipboard support: You can copy and paste content from other programs like Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio into the RichTextEditor and it will persist the formatting. If you copy code from Visual Studio it will preserve the code coloring scheme. * Context sensitive Toolbar: The ToolBar buttons will reflect the properties of that content automatically when you select it or navigate through it using the mouse or keyboard . * Code Block: It allows you to format text as code blocks. Simple select the text and format it by clicking the "Code Block" ToolBar button. * Emoticons: You can express yourself better by adding emoticons to your rich text. * HtmlView: If you would like to have more control over the look and feel of your text then you can edit it in HtmlView as well. * Text in multiple languages: The control currently supports several languages. * Browser support: The control works well in two of the most widely used browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Fast StringReader for .NET

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:46:05 GMT

After some experimentation, this is the fastest way I've found to split a string that represents a multi-line text file into individual lines. Still not as fast as doing it in C, but faster than StringReader or String.Split.

Writing Testable Code Is About Managing Complexity

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:16:02 GMT

One of the key benefits of the new ASP.NET MVC framework is improved testability of web applications. Phil Haack talks about why improved testability is good and how it helps to manage complexity and separate concerns.