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Continuous Integration Display Wall

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:16:16 GMT

Awesome 4 monitor display wall for visualizing a CruiseControl.NET build process.

27 Free Must-have Online Collaboration Tools

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:46:12 GMT

hese days teams can be dispersed all over the globe. With outsourcing, telecommuting, distance learning and complex project collaboration, it's often helpful to have tools that can assist with the various collaborative tasks need to be done by dispersed teams. I've put together a great list of 27 free...

Combining JQuery Form Validation and Ajax Submission with ASP.NET

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:01:13 GMT

Using JQuery Form Validation and Ajax Submission with ASP.NET

VisualSVN 1.6 Released

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:46:11 GMT

VisualSVN team released the new and improved version of the professional Subversion integration for Microsoft Visual Studio - VisualSVN 1.6. This release brings significant usability improvements such as Quick Revert, editor-aware status and Hot Switch features.

5 Tips for Better jQuery Cod

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:46:03 GMT

I've been coding using jQuery since shortly after it came out, and well -- I've been using it almost every work day. Here is a few tips that have saved me time.

NHibernate Profiler: A guided tour

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:01:31 GMT

Ayende provides an introduction to his upcoming tools for analyzing NHibernate usage.

LINQ To SQL is Dead - Read Between the Lines

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:46:13 GMT

David Hayden with some great points on the Linq to SQL announcement and some ideas on how the project could be saved.

Modal Delete Confirmation Version Two Using jQuery SimpleModal Plugin

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:31:12 GMT

I finally got around to using the SimpleModal delete confirmation that I wrote about quite a while back. One of the first things I noticed was that I could cut down a lot of the html markup by not including the confirmation in each row of the table and instead just setup a single confirmation and call it each time one of the delete icons was clicked.

89 Ways for You to Become the Coolest Developer in the World

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:31:08 GMT

You can learn how to improve your programming skills, work better and enjoy it from this collection of advice from experienced developers.

CodeRush Xpress for Visual Studio announced

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:46:03 GMT

A free subset of CodeRush and Refactor! Pro is now available.

jQuery IntelliSense documentation file available

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:31:12 GMT

IntelliSense documentation files for jQuery just got published on jquery.com. This enables great IntelliSense at design-time for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008.

My Year With TDD

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:46:02 GMT

It's been over a year now since I have been developing using TDD (Test Driven Development) as my primary development practice. I wanted to reflect on what it has done for me professionally. In reality, the past year has been great for my professional career in many ways.

7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Seven of my favorite jQuery plugins to use with ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, based on my own successes and failures using them over the past year and a half.

ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Beta

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:46:03 GMT

One of ScottGu´s monster blogposts

Problem with JSon serialization of Date in microsoft ajax.net

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:26:21 GMT

The Json serializer of the microsoft ajax can give you problems when you pass date value to webservice methods becuse it adjust to UTC, here I present a simple solution to the problem.

Form Validation Simplified w/ Asp.Net MVC

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:16:11 GMT

A short screencast on how to simplify form validation w/ Asp.Net MVC

10 Programming Proverbs Every Developer Should Know

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Proverbs are used to express universal truths or life lessons in a short and memorable fashion. I find that they are a great way to keep things in perspective, both in life and in work. Because of this, I have assembled 10 programming proverbs that every developer needs in their arsenal.

How To Use The SVN Client and Start Working With Your SubVersion Versi

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:31:03 GMT

how to use the Tortoise SVN client and work with your svn version control server

Using jQuery to enhance ASP.NET AJAX progress indication

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:31:10 GMT

An example of how to combine jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX, using jQuery's BlockUI plugin to present a modal progress indication dialog during an UpdatePanel's partial postback.

Expression Tree vs Reflection.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:46:11 GMT

Expression Trees can be used to avoid Reflection poor performance when you need to invoke methods in object that you deos not know at runtime. In this post I show you how you can access to property of objects building and compiling an expression tree.

How to Install Your Own Subversion Version Control Server Using Visual

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:46:02 GMT

This article will have 2 sections One will discuss the SVN Server installation and configuration and the second part will be about how to use the SVN client.

JQuery, the very very basics - Lesson 4

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:01:02 GMT

On again with the very basics of JQuery. Thanks again for all of the kicks, dzones, stumbled-upons. I am wearing a permanent thank-you smile now. :) Now that we have done with the selection and manipulation of JQuery elements, time for some actions (event handling). Actions, reactions, interactions, through which we learn, connect and play, through which web becomes an inseperable part of our lives.

My MVC Starter Template

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:31:05 GMT

I've been toying around with reorganizing the default MVC template and thought I would share it with people. I like the way it's come together.

$("Microsoft").append("excitement");

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:46:14 GMT

Right now is honestly the most excited that I have ever been about the .net platform. With IronRuby and ASP.NET MVC on the horizon and jQuery being integrated as part of the official Microsoft development platform, I think that Microsoft is finally "getting" web development.

Custom jQuery Selector for ASP.NET WebForms

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:16:13 GMT

My quest for a better way to select ASP.NET auto-generated IDs with jQuery.