Rich ajax applications that do not break if javascript is disabled.

weblogs.asp.net — Always wanted to test if the client's browser has javascript disabled in their browser ? Sounding impossible ? Well, not anymore! read more...

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Sharepoint is not a good development platform

codebetter.com — Well-reasoned rant on the ills of SharePoint as a development platform. read more...

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Public Website Admin Tools: Divide and Conquer

sitepoint.com — One of the first steps when designing a web application is figuring out how to administer the beast and where these admin tools should live. Often this comes down to one key question: should the public website itself also be the administrative tool? While there is no single approach that works in every situation, I generally find that keeping the administrative tools separate makes more sense than embedding the tools within the public facing website. And here's why. read more...

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3 Simple Rules for Solution Management

sitepoint.com — Having a properly structured project—or more properly, solution—is absolutely vital to ensuring a development initiative’s success. In a pinch, a developer needs to be able to pull the solution from source control, force a restore of the database and any other external dependencies, make minor and appropriate configuration changes and have a building, functional solution. There are alot of nuances to making this work in practice, but the essence of keeping things managable can be expressed in three rather simple, yet meaty, rules. read more...

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Wrap Your Name Value Variables

sitepoint.com — ASP.NET gives a developer a lot of loosely typed key-value collections in which to stash stash variables, depending upon persistence needs. The short list includes ViewState, Session, Application and HttpContext.Items. These collections can come in very handy when one needs to keep an object around outside of a single request or shuttle things between different bits of the http pipeline. But it comes at a price—these collections are loosely typed, just returning Objects. Moreover, there is no compile-time checking to ensure that you are requesting the right key in the right place. Errors can lead to crashes at best, and interesting data corruption at worst. Here is a handy technique to avoid such issues. read more...

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Subtext 1.9.2 "Shields Up" Edition Released!

haacked.com — Bloggers of the world rejoice! SubText 1.9.2 has been released! read more...

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TRULY Understanding Dynamic Controls (Part 2)

weblogs.asp.net — Part 2 of Dave Reed's excellent series on how to understand, and therefore create, dynamic controls. Its kicking awesome. read more...

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TRULY Understanding Dynamic Controls (Part 1)

weblogs.asp.net — Dave Reed is at it again. In a followup to his amazing article on ViewState, he is working up to telling you all the ins and outs of using dynamic controls. read more...

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