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Free VPS for a Month from Epic Win Hosting
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!
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Happy Hour starts now: Building apps with the Cocktail platform
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 sol...
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Suddenly Microsoft is the Hippest Tech Company Around
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.
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64-bit Small and Medium Instances are Here!
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!
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Stumped by .Net Memory Management?
seems intimidating, but the fundamentals can be easily understood. Here is the beast explained...with a little humor.
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Profiling performance for Catel using ANTS Performance Profiler
This blog post shows how to analyse the performance of your .NET application using MSTest and find the top 10 % worst performing methods.
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What is the value of definitions?
A reflection over whether our wish to have definitions to label things (such as "unit test" vs other kinds of tests) makes it easier or harder to communicate.
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Understanding Unit Testing
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 qualit...
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Rant about Rant: Stop the Madness
Have you caught yourself bashing some “anonymous” developer’s code? Of course, you have – don’t deny it, and I bet you enjoyed it too! I, for one, am tired of this madness. I see this happening way too much. In company after company, in team after team.
Mirror Mirror
When you are doing it for ...
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Getting data on how your software is used
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 t...
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WordPress VPS Now Available
A new image with WordPress, PHP, MySql, and MySql Workbench preinstalled and configured is now available.
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Cocktail development platform goes live
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.
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Is Shared Hosting Secure?
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.
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Economics of Continuous Deployment
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 behin...
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Why I hate computers (as a software engineer)
As a software engineer I can't live without a computer. I use it for my work, I use it for hobby projects, for blogging, for social networking, for entertainment, and lots of other things. However, I also can't live with them because of various reasons I will explain in this little rant.