Dial Those Keyboard Shortcuts – An Old-school Method for Productivity (www.chrissurfleet.co.uk)

submitted by csurfleet(220) 6 hours, 4 minutes ago

Stop using that mouse and become a keyboard ninja in one easy step. read more...

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Configuring WebClient Timeout and ConnectionLimit(www.tomdupont.net)

submitted by tdupont(1259) 18 days, 12 hours ago

It is great how simple the WebClient class is to use, but unfortunately it does not natively support configuring it's timeout or connection limit. Good news, both of these issues are very easy to fix by simply extending the WebClient class. read more...

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Concurrency, Performance, Arrays and when Dirty Writes are OK(www.philosophicalgeek.com)

submitted by pepethecow(56) 1 month, 3 days ago

This article will show how to increase the performance of a rather simple algorithm up to 80%, by showing how we can accept a loss in absolutely accuracy, and also taking advantage of how processors work. read more...

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Backing up SVN to Amazon S3 in Five Easy Steps(blog.cartviper.com)

submitted by diamondz(75) 1 month, 26 days ago

Learn how to backup your Subversion repos to Amazon S3 using a simple batch file to automate the process on a Windows Server. read more...

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How to help yourself when NuGet goes down(www.xavierdecoster.com)

submitted by johnrummell(1321) 2 months, 19 days ago

Today will be remembered as the day that NuGet.org went down and broke quite some builds. While many people would love to see the NuGet team wearing a pink sombrero, there is something to say about wearing it yourself if you did not manage to work around this. Let me explain… read more...

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IIS 500 errors leave clues in the log(www.dotnetnoob.com)

submitted by klings(50) 2 months, 22 days ago

How IIS logs can help troubleshoot 500 internal server errors. read more...

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Going Faster: Sexy numbers and full post-mortem(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 4 months, 5 days ago

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/ read more...

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Using Git with Subversion(trycatchfail.com)

submitted by Matt_TCF(946) 4 months, 8 days ago

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. read more...

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.Net's Sort Is Not Secure. Don't Use It. Here's a better one.(zimbry.blogspot.com)

submitted by pwhe23(972) 4 months, 22 days ago

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

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Going Faster: How not to suck at serving web content(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 5 months, 7 days ago

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. read more...

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Manage your dependencies with Rake and Nuget(freshbrewedcode.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 5 months, 13 days ago

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. read more...

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Return Multiple Values from Methods with Tuples -- Visual Studio Magaz(visualstudiomagazine.com)

submitted by pwhe23(972) 5 months, 16 days ago

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. read more...

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Beyond YSlow - Squeeeezing out website network performance(www.troyhunt.com)

submitted by troyhunt(831) 5 months, 21 days ago

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. read more...

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

submitted by urenjoy(342) 5 months, 24 days ago

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. read more...

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Using Dropbox as a personal Git and Mercurial Storage area(blog.lotas-smartman.net)

submitted by tiernano(1674) 6 months, 13 days ago

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

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Ruby Rake Files And Directories manipulation tasks(blog.kaide.net)

submitted by IndraKurniawan(46) 6 months, 18 days ago

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

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