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Windows Dedicated Servers vs. Virtual Private Servers

Thu, 10 May 2012 03:35:16 GMT

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

.NET eBook: Practical Performance Profiling

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:24:19 GMT

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

Lazy Programming for Smarties

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:26:49 GMT

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.

5:01 developers are visionless hacks

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:37:10 GMT

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.

Ricky Leeks talks about .NET memory management on the .NET Rocks show

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:33:45 GMT

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!

Top 5 Memory Management Gotchas

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:42:43 GMT

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.

Free DotNetNuke Month

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:36:21 GMT

Free VPS for a Month from Epic Win Hosting

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:59:11 GMT

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!

Happy Hour starts now: Building apps with the Cocktail platform

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:31:34 GMT

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.

Suddenly Microsoft is the Hippest Tech Company Around

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:03:28 GMT

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.

64-bit Small and Medium Instances are Here!

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:38:54 GMT

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!

Stumped by .Net Memory Management?

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:52:57 GMT

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

Profiling performance for Catel using ANTS Performance Profiler

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:11:04 GMT

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

Understanding Unit Testing

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:49:27 GMT

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.

Getting data on how your software is used

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:26:09 GMT

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.

WordPress VPS Now Available

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:57:38 GMT

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

Cocktail development platform goes live

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:35:01 GMT

Cocktail takes the pain out of developing enterprise applications in Silverlight or WPF. Cocktail leverages established patterns and practices, such as MVVM, and builds on DevForce's rich data service capabilities.

Is Shared Hosting Secure?

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:23:55 GMT

Shared hosting is incredibly popular with users who are looking for the cheapest hosting available - the problem is that along with the low price you get poor performance and even more concerning - questionable security.

Economics of Continuous Deployment

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:14:57 GMT

CI is great, you'd think then that continuous deployment would be just as awesome. Clients automatically get access to the latest build, and you as the developer don't even have to think about it. That's what Ayende and his team thought as well, until they discovered the hidden economic issues behind this delivery model.

Phil Haack, Keith Dahlby and Paul Betts on Git for Windows

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:41:57 GMT

Herding Code podcast talking to Phil Haack and Paul Betts (both new GitHubbers) and Keith Dahlby (author of posh-git, a set of PowerShell scripts which provide Git/PowerShell integration) about using Git on Windows.

OSS and .Net Year in Review 2011

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:56:28 GMT

Phil Haack shares with us what he feels are some of the highlights for .Net and open source in 2011. He covers such topics as Nuget, Mono, and a number of micro-web-frameworks.

A Case for Using Coffeescript - Justin Etheredge

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:28:32 GMT

Justin lays out his view of true truths of Coffeescript.

DNK .Net Dog Pile 12-16-2011

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:23:30 GMT

Here's 4 articles recently that Drew and Paul think are worth some discussion. So we're sending them out for everyone to join in and give their 2 cents worth.

Best of DNK - November 2011 - What's All the Hubbub, Bub?

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:01:58 GMT

We're closing in on the new year; it's hard to believe the next time we put together a best-of it will be 2012! It's been a fantastic year thus far and November was no exception. We've had a lot of fresh blood join the ranks lately, as well as a few familiar faces who've come back for more, hot .Net action! Check out our picks after the jump!

.NET code or SQL - where's the performance problem?

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:31:33 GMT

Identifying an application's performance bottlenecks is all about understanding how the application is spending its time. Only with the most complete understanding of how an application is operating is it possible to understand what it is doing wrong, as this article describes.