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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.

Correctly disposing using the using()-statement

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:16:07 GMT

A nice little article for newbies about how the using()-statement in C# works.

A Set of Useful Extension Methods for DateTime

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Presenting 11 time-saving (oh, the pun!) extension methods for the DateTime class.

Memcached's .NET cousin - Cacheman

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:01:02 GMT

Sriram from Microsoft develops Cacheman, a fast distributed hashtable similar to Memcached written in pure managed code.

C# .NET Gmail Tools

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:01:02 GMT

Gmail class library for getting gmail atom feeds and for sending emails through gmail.

Load XML into List Collection

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:50:04 GMT

Simple method load XML data into a list collection.

Does Your Code Pass "The Turkey Test?"

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

How careful are you about using the correct form of string and number formatting? How about your use of String.Compare and String.Equals?

Put Down the XmlNode and Step Away From the StringBuilder

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

Demonstrates the easiest way of generating and parsing Xml available in the .net framework. No more XmlNodes and no more CleanStringForXml custom utility functions.

Google Chart C# API

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:01:03 GMT

Simple example of using the excellent Google Chart C# API Wrapper, includes code for using on a WinForm app.

Free Web.config editor

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A free tool that enables editing the Web.config.

10 reasons why I chose MySQL over MSSQL2005 Express

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:16:03 GMT

10 reasons why to choose MySQL as database engine for your websites instead of MSSQL 2005