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Learning the Check-in Dance

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Short screencast where you learn the Check-in Dance

Joe Stagner says you could improve your ASP.NET site one tag at a time

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:46:09 GMT

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek apparently took a brief look at Aggiorno, a Visual Studio plugin that does some interesting stuff, such as add alternate text to images, update deprecated attributes or fix tag structure for XHTML compliance. Come take a look!

Scale Cheaply - Sharding

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:16:05 GMT

There are a lot of expensive ways to scale your database - all of which are highly touted by the big three database vendors because, well, they want to sell you all types of really expensive stuff. Despite what an "engagement consultant" might tell you though, most of the high-traffic websites on the web (google, digg, facebook) rely on far cheaper and better strategies: the core of which is called sharding.

ASP.NET Performance Tips

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:31:03 GMT

The article lists few of some of the many performance tweaks that can be implement to boost up ASP.NET performance.

In Search Of The Perfect UI

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:06:03 GMT

All the user interfaces are created within an established paradigm that we are used to. Is there a way of going beyond the paradigm? Is it possible to create the perfect UI? To make a brand new way of interaction between people and computers?

Lambdas

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:31:03 GMT

Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. Read this post to get an easy to understand overview of a topic is not really so terribly difficult to understand.

Capturing Output from ASP.Net Pages

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:37:59 GMT

This is a very good article, instead of appending the inline html code for the asp.net pages.

Serialize & Deserialize JSON Data

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:42:25 GMT

The article features on the in built support in .NET and JavaScript for JSON serialization, that can further be used for developing AJAX web services.

SQL Server 2008 Data Compression Part-1

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:12:44 GMT

The article provide a breif introduction of new data compression feature in SQL Server 2008.

Batching WCF calls

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:01:03 GMT

Great approach to overcome unnecessary roundtrips to a WCF service!

Microsoft vs VMware: The Squeeze Begins

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:03:23 GMT

Microsoft's recent blog on Hyper-V and a recent trade press interview suggesting their intention to enter the data center market are designed to start putting the squeeze on VMware. Will it work? The ball may be in VMware's court at this point.

jQuery for Asp.net MVC preview 3

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:00:16 GMT

So, I finally got a chance to sit down and finish up the jQuery for Asp.net Mvc preview 3. If you haven't already read Scott's post about preview 3, you should definitely do so before reading this one. So, quite some things have changed in preview 3, which made me decide to change a lot in the jQuery for Asp.net mvc (jqmvc) too. To start with most radical one: I ditched the ajax.master. This little 'framework' does not rely on a special masterpage in your website from now on. Since things have radically changed, I'll start all over again on how to use this project.

donjon - an agile project management web app

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:01:02 GMT

From hammet - the man behind the castle project "Our first goal is to make an agile project management web app. Why? We are not happy with the apps we have been using. They clearly are clueless regarding usability, and the pricing is unreasonable - not to mention the drug dealer selling model. The one that has a very decent UI is just not flexible. Also, I'm not a total fan of SaaS model, so I'd rather host my and my clients projects and important data."

News Ticker View for Graffiti CMS

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:50:58 GMT

Quick custom view file that allows for prototype-js-based auto-rotation of post titles as links to the posts themselves.

Using GIT with CodePlex

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:16:12 GMT

Blog post by Ayende Rahien on using GIT with CodePlex through a combination of git-svn and SvnBridge.

Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to build a client side Repeater

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:16:04 GMT

An example of one way of using ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery to implement client-side Repeater functionality. Using this technique on one of my own sites, I realized an over 400% performance gain.

Silverlight Twitter widget for your Blog

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:01:11 GMT

Silverlight Twitter widget for your Blog. Everyone wants their twitter feed on their blog. Now you can using silverlight. More...

How Do You Exit Your .Net Application?

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:31:09 GMT

The question in the title does not refer to the actions you take when you are about to exit your application, issues like logging, closing file handles, freeing unmanaged resources and so on. It does literally refer to the exit action itself...

Metrosexual Developers

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:16:02 GMT

A blog post I wrote on the value and importance of looking good as a software developer.

10 reasons why SQL Server 2008 is going to rock

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:01:12 GMT

Just like its predecessor, SQL Server 2008 is taking its sweet time to actually ship. However, unlike its predecessor, it won't just be a "worthwhile upgrade". It will kick ass. Here are the top 10 reasons why.

How to get up to speed with Team Foundation Server

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:01:03 GMT

A collection of links about TFS, from evaluation to installation to customization and maintenance.

How to create web application user interface that looks like Outlook

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:01:02 GMT

How many times have you heard form a client that they want "outlook-like" web user interface for their application? Me, probably a hundred of times. In this article I'll explain how to create a web application user interface that looks like Outlook. You can see the live demo and download source code with images.

Speed up Firefox when using Development Server

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:31:02 GMT

Using Firefox on Vista to view websites hosted by the Visual Studio Development Server can be unbearably slow. Pages take aeons (i.e. several seconds) to load while viewing the same site under IE does not suffer from this issue. Here's how to solve the problem.

Shoutcast.NET - Get Details From a Shoutcast Server

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:59:39 GMT

I have been using Shoutcast for a long time. And each and every time had to do the same stuff if i wanted to get details such as song title, current listener etc. So i decided to write a simple class library to make things easier. What you have to do in order to be able to use this library is to find out the exact url of your stream.

Added parallel abilities to Dizzy in the for of AsParallel()

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:01:04 GMT

Dizzy is a library of methods for operating on lists. I have recently added the ability to filter out parallel operations by using a method similar to the way the ParallelFX team has done "AsParallel()". It implementation might be of interest to you.