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The "Sim City" effect

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:30:00 GMT

What happens when you turn your back on a software development project.

IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit (ScottGu)

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:45:05 GMT

"Today we are shipping the first beta of a new free tool - the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit - that makes it easy to perform SEO analysis on your site and identify and fix issues within it."

Open Source or Die - The Real Future of Graffiti?

Tue, 12 May 2009 12:16:02 GMT

Telligent's Graffiti hasn't quite flatlined yet, but the signs aren't looking too good. Could OSS be the way to breathe life back into this once-promising CMS platform?

Top 5 SQL System stored procedures every developer should know

Wed, 13 May 2009 17:31:02 GMT

There are a number of documented and undocumented system stored procedures in MS SQL Server that are helpful for every web developer working with databases. From the developer's perspective, here's a list of 5 System stored procedures that are my favorite.

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.

SubSonic to Acquire NHibernate

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:01:18 GMT

Hanalei, HI - April 1, 2009: SubSonic (http://subsonicproject.com), a data access tool and "Super High-fidelity Batman Toolbelt" (according to its owner, Rob Conery), is set to acquire NHibernate, a much larger data access technology built on the .NET platform. The terms of the deal have not yet been announced but the stage has been set for what many see as a hostile transition of ownership.

Putting the "M" Back in MVC

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:46:14 GMT

"Trying to keep up my end of the bargain with respect to MVC and SubSonic :). I did a walkthrough of it and decided that I was talking too much and, in honor of everyone telling me "SubSonic is dead" I thought it fitting to toss in some Rob Zombie."

Content Stealing Jerks

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:01:02 GMT

I've grown somewhat accustomed to seeing my articles regurgitated on some random blogger's site and passed off as their own. Usually I just send content stealing jerk (CSJ for future reference) an e-mail asking that they provide some sort of link back to my original article and leave it at that. Sometimes they comply, oftentimes they don't. In the end, life goes on. After all, it's not like I'm going to press charges over it.

Silverlight 3: AVAILABLE!

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:46:03 GMT

Looks like Silverlight 3 is rolled-out: Runtime, SDK and documentation are already available for download. See the Client / Server libs?

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:01:26 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM is released

How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:46:04 GMT

A very deep dive into the source code for how .NET Regular Expressions really work

Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:16:02 GMT

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now - announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I've been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox. The book is now in production, and will be available to buy in stores soon

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

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.

ASP.NET - YSlow and ASP.NET: 100 points "A" grade is possible

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:46:02 GMT

Just in case if somebody doesn't know what YSlow is? YSlow is Firefox add-on integrated with Firebug. It analyzes web pages and tells you why they are slow. You can run it on you project and see your grade. You can do some easy improvements and maybe even get D grade. However to get higher then D grade becomes a real challenge. Below I will describe how I got A grade (100 points) on my web blog application.

Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:01:16 GMT

IE6 users are still too many... it started with a tweet from a Norwegian web developer, and spread like fire across Europe. Joining the campaign is easy: just add a few lines of code to your site or blog. In this post is how to do it and a little more of background on how to do it.

Ruby inspired C# Extension Methods for natural DateTime operations

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:16:02 GMT

FluentDateTime is a open source library of Ruby inspired C# Extension Methods for easier and more natural DateTime handling and operations in .NET that allows you to write code like this: DateTime.Now + 1.Week() + 3.Days + 14.Minutes(); 3.Days().Ago(); 5.Days().After(new DateTime(2000, 1, 1)); DateTime.Now.NextDay(); DateTime.Now.WeekAfter(); DateTime.Now.Midnight(); DateTime.Now.SetTime(11, 55, 0);

JQuery 1.3.2 Released with much better performance

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:01:02 GMT

The benefits of the new Sizzle selector engine are really starting to come to light as contributions from the larger JavaScript community come in. A number of additions have landed that have helped to improve the performance of the engine - especially in Internet Explorer.

Using Enums in List Controls

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:01:02 GMT

Convert data to and from enums.

Does LINQ StinQ? Not with PLINQO!

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:46:19 GMT

PLINQO, which stands for Professional LINQ to Objects, is a collection of CodeSmith templates that are meant to replace and extend the LINQ to SQL designers that are included with Visual Studio 2008.

Interest in ASP.NET MVC is Rising

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:46:09 GMT

Simone Chiaretta extracts some Google Trends stats to show the rising interest in ASP.NET MVC in the past few months.

jQuery Fun: Greeting Your Site Referrals

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:16:21 GMT

This is a complete javascript example to detect your site visitors referrer and greeting them with a message based on their referrer url

WebForms or MVC? What about the third option?

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:01:19 GMT

I've read a lot of posts and articles about why and when you should choose WebForms or the MVC framework to build your ASP.NET websites. They are all pretty good, but for some reason they forget or ignore the obvious third option - standard ASP.NET without the WebForm.

Sad Way To Do Business

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:01:03 GMT

how to make a bad impression with poor support and bad atitude and throw away thousands potential customers.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:01:18 GMT

Finally Scott Guthrie announced ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC. Check it out.