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Windows Dedicated Servers vs. Virtual Private Servers(www.epicwinhosting.com)

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Our friends of Epic Win Hosting spell out all of the differences you need to know about. read more...

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.NET eBook: Practical Performance Profiling(www.red-gate.com)

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You can grab a free copy of this performance profiling eBook from here http://bit.ly/INLrpd read more...

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Lazy Programming for Smarties(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 1 month, 7 days ago

As a programmer, I can honestly say that I am lazy. Forget the menial job of repeating tasks… if it takes me an hour to complete an iteration, I would rather spend 3 hours automating the process. You never know when you might need to do it again, and the click of a button is much more satisfying than an hour of processing data. I know I’m not the only one who feels this way either, otherwise Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas wouldn’t have codified the DRY principle in The Pragmatic Programmer…. Don’t Repeat Yourself. read more...

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5:01 developers are visionless hacks(debuggerdotbreak.wordpress.com)

submitted by JudahGabrielJudahGabriel(814) 1 month, 8 days ago

5:01 developers -- those developers who punch out at 5:01 and never think about technology again until 9am, the people who don't read programming blogs or attempt to advance their craft, these developers have neither vision for technology, nor ambition in their field. Where the 501 Manifesto errs. read more...

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Ricky Leeks talks about .NET memory management on the .NET Rocks show(www.dotnetrocks.com)

submitted by redgateredgate(155) 1 month, 8 days ago

Carl and Richard have a discussion with a vegetable. Yeah, that's right, we interviewed a leek named Ricky Leeks. Beyond all the endless puns, is a great conversation about memory management in .NET. Ricky also lets us know about a free e-book on .NET Memory Management you can download from the links in the show. Check it out! read more...

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Top 5 Memory Management Gotchas(www.red-gate.com)

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Unmanaged memory is often leaked when you forget to write code to deallocate it; however this can also happen because references are retained to the managed object which is responsible for deallocating it. read more...

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Free DotNetNuke Month(www.epicwinhosting.com)

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Sign up today and get a free month with your DotNetNuke instance. read more...

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Free VPS for a Month from Epic Win Hosting(www.epicwinhosting.com)

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Try out Epic Win Hosting for free and see how terrific our service is with DNN, Orchard and other images. EWH is easy to use and powerful! read more...

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Happy Hour starts now: Building apps with the Cocktail platform(drc.ideablade.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 1 month, 24 days ago

Belly up to the Happy Hour bar, a Silverlight application (v.4 or v.5) that you'll build from scratch. MVVM, convention over configuration, view composition, screen navigation, data repositories … they are all introduced here in short, easy-to-follow lessons that build progressively from a blank solution to a plausible application. This series gets you started with Cocktail, guiding you towards proven architecture and practices that will sustain your application over time. We show you how … and we explain why. read more...

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Suddenly Microsoft is the Hippest Tech Company Around(www.theatlanticwire.com)

submitted by pwhe23pwhe23(972) 1 month, 28 days ago

While Apple and Google are busy getting bad press for their privacy issues, labor practices and general big-evil-company wrongdoings, Microsoft has done some brand regeneration, making it look like the hippest tech company on the block these days. read more...

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64-bit Small and Medium Instances are Here!(www.epicwinhosting.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 2 months, 19 days ago

You can now run all our images on either 32 or 64-bit platforms. Previously 64-bit was limited to Micro's so if you wanted the ability to easily upgrade you needed to run 32-bit. No Longer! read more...

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Stumped by .Net Memory Management?(www.red-gate.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 2 months, 20 days ago

seems intimidating, but the fundamentals can be easily understood. Here is the beast explained...with a little humor. read more...

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Profiling performance for Catel using ANTS Performance Profiler(blog.catenalogic.com)

submitted by redgateredgate(155) 2 months, 20 days ago

This blog post shows how to analyse the performance of your .NET application using MSTest and find the top 10 % worst performing methods. read more...

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Understanding Unit Testing(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 3 months ago

Unit testing has become nearly ubiquitous in software development, but the large number of frameworks, tools, and development processes can leave many people confused. This article is meant to help developers who are not currently using unit tests, or use them very little, begin ensuring code quality with repeatable tests by outlining various frameworks and methodologies available. read more...

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Getting data on how your software is used(www.applicationmetrics.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 3 months, 4 days ago

Application Metrics is an ingeniously simple system to gain insight into how your applications are used - whether they're built for web, desktop, or mobile. With minimal changes, your application will report back information on how it is used by your customers, along with environmental information that precisely characterizes your user's system or device. read more...

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WordPress VPS Now Available(www.epicwinhosting.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 3 months, 10 days ago

A new image with WordPress, PHP, MySql, and MySql Workbench preinstalled and configured is now available. read more...

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