Yahoo YUI Compressor vs. MS AJAX Minifier vs. Google Closure Compiler(www.coderjournal.com)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 2 years, 4 months ago

A while back, YUI Compressor was king of the hill, and for the most part the only game in town that was really designed for production use. Since then a number of new competitors have been released by Google and Microsoft, and Nick Berardi checks out how they stacked up against the YUI Compressor. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC: Compile Your Views for Release Build Only(developmentalmadness.com)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 2 years, 5 months ago

Mark J. Miller shows how to setup an ASP.NET MVC application project to compile views based on WebForms engine in release builds only. You therefore get the speed during development but a final validation before release. read more...

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What's New in the BCL (Base Class Library) in .NET 4 Beta 2(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 2 years, 6 months ago

Justin Van Patten of the BCL (Base Class Library) team provides a rundown of what's new in the BCL with .NET 4 Framework Beta 2, in addition to what was included in Beta 1. read more...

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Visualising Sorting Algorithms(hatfulofhollow.com)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 3 years, 1 month ago

Beautiful visualisations of sorting algorithms. read more...

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SubSonic 2.2 Released(blog.wekeroad.com)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 3 years, 1 month ago

It happened a few days ago but it is worth a post. SubSonic 2.2 has been released! read more...

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ASP.NET MVC source code under MS-PL(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 3 years, 1 month ago

Scott Guthrie announces that the ASP.NET MVC source code is being released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). MS-PL is an OSI-approved open source license. The MS-PL contains no platform restrictions and provides broad rights to modify and redistribute the source code. read more...

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Beware of ASP.NET MVC JavaScriptResult (devlicio.us)

submitted by atifaziz(1000) 3 years, 3 months ago

“While the MVC RC has brought with it many improvements, it has also taken a step towards breaking down the clean separation of concerns with the introduction of the JavaScriptResult ActionResult. …JavaScriptResult puts more power into the hands of the developer, but also assists in shooting yourself in the foot if used improperly.” read more...

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Why are thread safe collections so hard? (blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 3 years, 3 months ago

"Writing a collection which is mutable, thread safe and usable is an extremely difficult process. At least that’s what you’ve likely been told all through your schooling. But then you get out on the web and see a multitude of thread safe lists, maps and queues. If it’s so hard, why are there so many examples?" read more...

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Getting Started With IronRuby And RSpec, Part 1(msdn.microsoft.com)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 3 years, 3 months ago

An introduction to IronRuby and the RSpec BDD framework read more...

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An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows(nathanj.github.com)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 3 years, 4 months ago

"This document is designed to show that using git on Windows is not a difficult process. In this guide, I will create a repository, make several commits, create a branch, merge a branch, search the commit history, push to a remote server, and pull from a remote server. The majority of this will be done using GUI tools." read more...

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jQuery 1.3 Released(blog.jquery.com)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 3 years, 4 months ago

"The jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone in to this release and we're really quite proud of it. " read more...

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TortoiseGit 0.1.0.0 Preview(code.google.com)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 3 years, 5 months ago

TortoiseSVN is being ported to TortoiseGit read more...

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DNK Community Guidelines - Suggestions welcome! (groups.google.com)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 3 years, 5 months ago

Lets come up with some much needed community guidelines for DNK. Please post your suggestions and comments below, I'll update the community guidelines page on the Google group once we have reached a consensus. read more...

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Pair Programming - Marketing FAIL(blog.magenic.com)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 3 years, 6 months ago

When people talk about lack of adoption of "XP" (aka Extreme Programming) practices, one of the chief problems people have with it is the idea of "Pair Programming" read more...

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XNA Game Studio 3.0 is Here(creators.xna.com)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 3 years, 6 months ago

XNA Game Studio 3.0 expands on all the offerings of earlier iterations to include additional functionality to appeal to game developers of every level and enable them to create games to distribute through Xbox LIVE Community Games on the Xbox 360 as part of the New Xbox Experience. read more...

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Martin Fowler on Oslo(martinfowler.com)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 3 years, 6 months ago

"Oslo is a project at Microsoft, of which various things have been heard but with little details until this week's PDC conference. What we have known is that it has something to do with ModelDrivenSoftwareDevelopment and DomainSpecificLanguages." read more...

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