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Do Not Learn Ruby

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A tongue in cheek essay on the perils of learning Ruby. You've been warned: do not learn Ruby!

I, for one, welcome our new revision control overlords!

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Using version control tools to deploy your (ASP.NET) websites.

Discover Powershell

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:12:38 GMT

It's a tutorial that introduces Powershell as a much more powerful replacement for batch files, and glimpses at other killer features, such as instantiating .Net objects directly in the shell. Cygwin just got a lot less useful :-)

Debug Visualizer for SubSonic Collections

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:01:02 GMT

See your SubSonic collections in a DataGridView while debugging your application just like you would see a DataSet in debug.

SubSonic + ObjectDataSource = less code

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:46:02 GMT

Use a base class for all your SubSonic controllers and have automatically SQL paging, SQL sorting and filtering of your data through a search criteria. All this decoupled from your aspx or your controls in a nice controller class.