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Running Applications in IronRuby

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Simple as that. Shows you how to get a Ruby app running in IronRuby. Who doesn't want to write Ruby on .net!?

Richard Feynman, the Challenger, and Software Engineering

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:16:04 GMT

When Richard Feynman investigated the Challenger disaster, he issued a brilliant report with many insights into the nature of engineering. These apply directly to modern software development. Not sure if this one is on topic - it's about general software engineering.

Kigg - A Digg like application developed in ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Learn how to develop a Digg/DotNetKicks like application in ASP.NET MVC, LINQ To SQL and ASP.NET Ajax.

Silverlight Roadmap

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:31:02 GMT

check out the details

Subsonic Roadmap

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:16:03 GMT

Rob describes the state of the Subsonic project and reveils the future plans for SubSonic.

Speed Coding with Regionerate, GhostDoc & Visual Studio's Refactoring

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:46:02 GMT

A short screencast I created that demonstrates how I use free productivity enhancers such as GhostDoc, Regionerate and Visual Studio's built-in refactoring tools.

SubSonic a day in the life of. (part 1)

Sun, 20 May 2007 00:31:01 GMT

Shows the SubSonic project in action. Solid stuff.

Five Things Every Micro-ISV Should Know About Intellectual Property

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:17:01 GMT

Eric Sink lays down some knowledge on intellectual property.

Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven

Tue, 02 May 2006 14:53:00 GMT

Description: Google TechTalks March 17, 2006 Dave Astels Dave Astels (co-author of "A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming" and author of Jolt Award winning "Test-driven Development: A Practical Guide") has over 2 decades of experience in the software field, most of that involved with object-oriented technologies and techniques. Dave has been studying, practicing, teaching, evangelising, and coaching XP and Agile Processes since 1998. Dave's experience ranges from embedded process control systems to consumer products (both consumer electronics and shrinkwrapped software) to energy trading systems. Dave is an independant software consultant specializing in the areas of agile process, programming practices, and object design/architecture. Dave is one of the thought leaders in the area of TDD, and now BDD. ABSTRACT Test Driven Development (TDD) has become quite well known. Many developers are getting benefit from the practice. But it is possible that we can get even more value. A new practice is getting attention these days: Behaviour Driven Development (BDD). BDD removes all vestiges of testing and instead focuses on specifying the behaviour desired in the system being built. This talk will be focus on Ruby and will introduce a new BDD framework: rSpec. The ideas, however, are language independent.

Find out details using LOG PARSER from huge text files without opening

Tue, 02 May 2006 02:20:30 GMT

How to find parse HUGE files without opening them in Notepad, Excel etc for searching for a specific text. This tool called Log Parser comes in really handy to do quite a lot of analysing stuff. It is a command line interface and definitely not one of the easiest ones to learn, but once you get the hang of it, you will sure feel that you didn't do a bad job in investing your time into this tool.

TestDriven.NET 2.0.1545 with NCoverExplorer 1.3.2 Released

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:12:08 GMT

The Visual Studio integrated testing tool TestDriven.NET has just released version 2.0.1545 with plenty of upgrades and 'must have' additional features. For those not familiar, TestDriven.NET is an add-on that puts all of your favorite NUnit and NCover testing tools on a right-click menu inside of Visual Studio. This download is a must have add-on for all developers. NCoverExplorer gives you a graphical view of exactly what code was executed during your unit testing process.

ZedGraph: A flexible charting library for .NET

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:37:00 GMT

Here's an open source charting library for .NET that provides a high degree of configurability.

Trio of notable authors Introduces "Beginning .NET Game Programming"

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:26:10 GMT

This article describes a book, written by a trio of notable authors David Weller, Alexandre Santos Laboa, and Ellen Hatton. The book introduces the reader to a variety of fundamental concepts that go into programming a game. Every section of the book is accompanied by several source code listings that demonstrate the concept at hand. This book is relevant to both .NET 2.0 as well as .NET 1.1.

VSLive!

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 02:17:00 GMT

If you develop with the Visual Studio .NET tool suite, VSLive! is the conference for you. VSLive! will surpass your expectations with more content and more events in one place than any other Visual Studio event. Learn from the Microsoft Development Team Managers and industry experts from around the world. You'll get cutting edge techniques to solve your development challenges today and build the next generation applications of tomorrow. No other conference, no corporate trainers, no one else will compare to VSLive!'s standard of editorial excellence and commitment to real-world, practical information designed to take your skills to the next level.

Writing Dataset to Excel in ASP.NET

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:46:35 GMT

This article is helpful for those who would like to write dataset contents to a excel file and try to display it in the browser.........

Using MySQL with .NET

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:53:00 GMT

It is realy amazing to combine a powerful platform like .net with a free database like MySql. Well the credit goes to the ODBC database functions in ADO .net. You install it and its ready for the action and rollover to build a simple application for reading a table built in MySQ. Read to know more about using My SQL with . NET.....

13 Productivity Tips for ADO.NET 2.0

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:01:00 GMT

13 Productivity Tips for ADO.NET 2.0