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8 Most Popular jQuery Plugins of January 2012

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:17:56 GMT

Last month developers were busy with jQuery and it is time to go through some of the most popular jQuery plugins they created in January 2012.

Going Faster: Sexy numbers and full post-mortem

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:49:20 GMT

In a followup to my article on how not to suck at serving web content, I go over what we did to improve page performance at DotNetKicks and why it worked. Read the first post if you haven't already: http://blogs.dotnetkicks.com/dnk-jump-in/2011/12/21/going-faster-how-not-to-suck-at-serving-web-content/

Using Git with Subversion

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:57:38 GMT

Do you love Git? Are you working on a project that's using Subversion? Well, did you know that Git actually integrates quite nicely with Subversion right out of the box? I'll show you what you need to know to get started with Git and Subversion, and I'll show you the workflow I use for keeping my work in sync with everyone else on my team.

.Net's Sort Is Not Secure. Don't Use It. Here's a better one.

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:57:26 GMT

.Net's Array.Sort (up to at least version 4.0) has serious weaknesses

Crystal Reports error in .NET 4.0

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:39:52 GMT

Shows how to fix a strange error when using Crystal Reports in .NET 4.0 with an ADO.NET data source

Testing Web services or REST API Easily with Poster Add-on

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:53:01 GMT

Poster is a developer tool for interacting with web services and other web resources that lets you make HTTP requests, interact with web services and inspect the results.

11 Things every Software Developer should be doing in 2012.

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:45:11 GMT

2011 is winding down and 2012 is upon us. Have you set any goals for 2012 both professionally/personally? Regardless of the answer, I'm sure one or two of the items listed below can help. I usually don't blog many opinion posts, due to the fact that I like to keep my blog technical. This post is an exception. :)

Going Faster: How not to suck at serving web content

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:25:30 GMT

We've noticed some performance issues here on the DNK site. Check out our findings and read about how we're going to fix it! These are problems anyone running a website can run into, do yourself a favor and learn from our mistakes.

Manage your dependencies with Rake and Nuget

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:14:31 GMT

Josh Bush shares with us a rake script that works with Nuget 1.6 to automatically fetch and update your project dependencies without the need for checking binary files into your source repositories. It even does away with the package version folders, leaving your working directory clean of old versions that are no longer used by your project. Best of all, it allows everything new about Nuget 1.6 to be handled through 1 config file, rather than several.

Scheduling TeamCity backups in Windows

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:51:21 GMT

Jetbrains' build server software TeamCity is an awesome product to get up and running with continuous integration and deployment, however with its ease of operation it leaves a few nice to have business features aside. One of these is Scheduled backup - and if there is anything that your career has probably taught you to date, it's that when things break, having a backup is priceless.

Return Multiple Values from Methods with Tuples -- Visual Studio Magaz

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:05:40 GMT

You have a method that returns multiple values. So you have to define a class, instantiate it, set the properties to the values, and return the resulting object, right? Well, no you don't -- at least in .NET Framework 4, which gives you a simpler way: Tuples.

Beyond YSlow - Squeeeezing out website network performance

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:06:44 GMT

How much improvement can be made on an already well-optimised site, I mean one that scores very well against existing performance yardsticks? How much faster can you go without spending dollars on a CDN? Turns out there are big gains to be made very quickly - and it costs just a tiny bit of development time.

FEDe: A Search engine for Front-End (HTML, CSS, Javascript & jQuery) W

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:32:34 GMT

It explains about FEDe A Search engine for Front-End (HTML, CSS, Javascript & jQuery) Web developers having special tabs for smashing network, stackoverflow, ..etc in search result.

Abstracting reactive extensions for sql server compact and implementin

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:27:02 GMT

How to implement an async instant search with Rx (Reactive Extensions) while querying an Sql Ce4 database.

Using Dropbox as a personal Git and Mercurial Storage area

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:08:27 GMT

Quick tutorial on how to use Dropbox as a shared folder for Git or Mercurial

Ruby Rake Files And Directories manipulation tasks

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:15:36 GMT

Collection of Ruby Rake code snippets for manipulating files and directories during continuous integration process

C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Complete Collection

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:46:58 GMT

I will be giving my C#/.NET Little Wonders presentation to the St. Louis .NET User Group this week (www.stlnet.org). In preparation, I wanted to repost the index of all the Little Wonders and Little Pitfalls posts and presentations so that they would be readily visible for anyone new to these series. I also linked in my C#/.NET Fundamentals presentation "Of Lambdas and Linq", a short primer for those just starting with LINQ and lambda expressions.

Things Every Senior .NET Developer Should Know, Part 1 - OOP

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:50:43 GMT

If I could pick only one thing that a senior-level .NET developer should know, it would be Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). True, OOP is not .NET specific, and indeed I think at this point a senior developer on virtually any platform should be familiar with OOP, it's especially important here in the .NET world. Read on to find out why I think OOP is so important and to get a quick introduction and refresher on the four major tenets of OOP.

XElement - Getting OuterXML and InnerXML

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:20:10 GMT

Very usefull for developers needing to get either the outerxml or the innerxml of an xelement. Similar to the XmlDocument methods

How to get intellisense in standalone javascript files in VS 2010

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:59:11 GMT

When jQuery is used within an ASPX page or within a CSHTML page, intellisense works fine. If the same jQuery script is moved to a standalone javascript file, intellisense stops working. This is very frustrating for the developers. This post gives a tip of how to enable intellisense in standalone javascript files.

Why my WP7 Emulator is not opening?

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:58:55 GMT

Are you facing any issue deploying your Windows Phone 7 application in the emulator or, are you facing any issue while opening the Windows Phone 7 emulator? Is it stating some System Error while finding "MFPlat.dll"? If you are facing the similar issue, this post will help you. Do bookmark this post and share to others, so that, if anyone is facing the same will resolve it easily. In this post, I will tell you the background of the issue and the solution to fix this problem. If you have any other alternative, do share it here and help the other person. Read more to find out the issue and it's solution.

Enabling Frame Rate Counters for XAML Applications in Windows 8

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:47:12 GMT

Introduction One of the things that we all look at before we ship software is the performance of our apps. Last November, I posted a quick and easy way to do it in Silverlight. Today, I am going to walk you through doing it in Windows 8 for your Metro XAML applications. After the Build event was over, I was interested in learning how to do this for my Windows 8 Metro Apps. I started watching videos from the Build RSS Feed and noticed this one from Tim Heuer that did just that. Let's get started Click/Touch the "Developer Command Prompt" to begin.

Stupid Powershell Tricks Part 1

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:10:13 GMT

A Stupid PowerShell Trick is any PowerShell element that has the potential to make your life or work easier. These are not full solutions to exact problems, but rather small techniques you can employ in various situations. The idea for the session came to me after going over some notes for previous PowerShell and StudioShell sessions. I found that the most frequent and at times energetic question from the audience was "What was that you just did there?"

Copy/Extract HTML Dropdownlist Options in Plain Text

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:31:22 GMT

How to Copy/Extract HTML Dropdownlist Options in Plain Text

Set Breakpoint and Debug jsFiddle's Javascript using Firebug

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:30:17 GMT

How to Set Breakpoint and Debug jsFiddle's Javascript using Firebug