Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - October 5-7, 2009

Web Development How To Speed Up Your Website By 80% Or More Enterprise Library Validation example for ASP.NET MVC 2 thinking out loud: asp.net mvc & nhaml ASPhere web.config editor Efficient Server Side Paging With ASP.NET And jQuery 3 Image Techniques To Speed Up Your Website 5+ Steps to Speed up your Website punypng: PNG Compression and Image Optimization Asp.net MVC Areas in depth - on code Web Design How to Code a Clean Portfolio Design (Plus Free Five-Page Template) jQuery Lesson Series: Introduction to Selectors Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started 77 Inspirational Example of Pricing Page Designs Styling Post Headings That Stick Out 50 Surprisingly Amazing Themes for Blogger 50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development Color Psychology In Creative Design CSS2 Visual Cheat Sheet Most Used and Abused Web Design Trends of All Time Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone 34 Excellent Punctuation Inspired Logo Designs CSS Shorthand – A Guide to Cleaner and Faster Coding Styling Blog Comments: Correct Markup Design a Clean and Fresh Company Website In Photoshop How to Add a Fixed Position Banner to a Website Is There A Perfect Web Design Width? Silverlight, WPF & RIA Silverlight Cream for October 05, 2009 Changing DatePicker in Silverlight to show current date What Do We Want in Silverlight Validation? Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor) My Favorite Silverlight Extensions APIs – Part 1 MVVM Light Toolkit V2: What’s new? Database & Related Technologies SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Query Hint – FORCE ORDER xProfiler – A generic OR/M Profiler LINQ Tools More testing of Unicode Compression in SQL Server 2008 R2 Why NHibernate Entities Need A Public Or Protected Parameterless Constructor Web Service & Related Technologies Building WCF Services with F# Securing your WCF service with a custom username / password authentication mechanism Testing Test Plan Template Team Build without Tests Lists The myth that TDD or test-first slows you down is true Unit Tests and Debug.Assert() Architecture Attribution and Analogy Remember Me-Checkbox The Problem With Planning-Agile S#arp Architecture Contrib…it’s alive! Why No Extension Properties? Fun with Func Delegates, Events and Async Operations Private Extension Methods Strive for Functional Cohesion Lean and Kanban Collection Announcing the guide for claims based identity and access