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Cassandra Jump Start For The Windows Developer

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system. It is an Apache Software Foundation top-level project, as of February 17, 2010, designed to handle very large amounts of data spread out across many commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no single point of failure. It is a NoSQL solution that was initially developed by Facebook and powers their Inbox Search feature. Jeff Hammerbacher, who led the Facebook Data team at the time, has described Cassandra as a BigTable data model running on an Amazon Dynamo-like infrastructure.

PostSharp Going Commercial. Introducing Commercial.

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Gael Fraiteur warmly thanks the PostSharp community for its support and announces the launch of SharpCrafters, the new company behind PostSharp. He explains the reasons behinds this choice and the new licensing/pricing model.

How Fanboys See .NET ORMs

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:15:00 GMT

A play off of the recent "How Fanboys See Operating Systems" post.

jQuery 1.4 Released!

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:00:07 GMT

In celebration of jQuery's 4th birthday, 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 into this release, and we're really quite proud of it.

New Year's Resolutions for Software Developers

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:45:03 GMT

A great list of ways to challenge yourself in 2010. I especially like "I will be an agent of change in my organization."

Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:15:01 GMT

Simone looks at the last year's stats and lists the most popular posts we wrote in 2009. And also writes his overall top 10

Any() versus Count()

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:15:00 GMT

Jimmy Bogard brought to my attention today that I had been doing something wrong all along. I've been using Count() on my enumerations when I should have been using Any(). I've even done this in a presentation I've been giving the past few months. This is from Mash Up.

131 jQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:45:00 GMT

I've started a new project to create jQuery Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 now that it supports HTML and JavaScript snippets. There are 131 so far.

Build Version Increment Addin for Visual Studio

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:15:01 GMT

Today I will introduce a tool for Visual Studio Build Version Increment Add-In Visual Studio I want to have automatic build version increment for my apps and libraries to avoid setting it manually again and again. After 5 minutes searching on the internetnet, I found Build Version Increment add-in for Visual Studio 2005/2008. This add-in is very simple in use but do exactly what everyone developer needs.

Translating your content title using Google Translate API...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:45:00 GMT

This is a tricky way to utilize Google Translate API to build English SEO friendly URLs for your dynamic web pages. The best way to use in ASP.NET MVC applications!

Enhance your .NET applications for Windows 7

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:00:01 GMT

Learn how to exploit the full range of new Windows 7 features direct from your .NET code, including jumplists, tabbed thumbnails, sensor platform APIs and DirectX

Windows Azure and Visual Studio 2010

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:30:00 GMT

Microsoft just released several new features for Windows Azure through the Windows Azure Tools and SDK. This release adds support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and VWD Express 2010 Beta 2.

Dependency Injection For Dummies

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

The goal of this series is to introduce programming patterns and practices to developers who have little to no familiarity with them. This series does not intend to dive into the intricacies of each pattern / practice, but to give a brief overview that will (hopefully) inspire developers to learn more about them.

12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:00:01 GMT

In this post Simone Chiaretta outlines a list of 12 best practices to use with ASP.NET MVC.

C# Recorder using IronRuby

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT

The Ruby languages has some very powerful built-in abilities. These are now available in C# 4.0 thanks to the dynamic keyword and IronRuby. In this post I take advantage of some of the powerful Ruby built-in abilities to create a class that records C# statements and playbacks them on an arbitrary object - a task that has been very complicated to achieve until now.

DotNetMarche Workshop material - Refactoring 2 the max

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:11:55 GMT

Recently, together with Diego Guidi, Alfredo Morresi and Gian Maria Ricci, I was the speaker in the 11th workshop presented by our .net user group DotNetMarche. ... If you are interested the material of the workshop is available following this link: http://dotnetmarche.org/files/folders/11_-_refactoring_2themax_09102009/default.aspx The website user group is in Italian (cause we are a local community), but the slides and the source code presented are written in English.

Firebug for IE,Safari,Chrome and Opera

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:15:00 GMT

Firebug is certainly one of the main assets for web development available. I know that is the plugin of choice for many others. An undesirable side effect of Excellent Firebug is that other similar tools for other browsers pale in comparison and seem inferior.You can use firebug in any other browser by following these steps:

Do you know about this undocumented Google CDN feature?

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:30:02 GMT

Information on an undocumented feature of the Google AJAX APIs CDN (jQuery UI themes hosted on the CDN, including images).

Announcing PostSharp 2.0 CTP1

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:31:26 GMT

What to add? The first preview of PostSharp 2.0 is out!

Introducing PostSharp 2.0: #4 - Visual Studio Add-In

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:30:02 GMT

Gael Fraiteur shows the new PostSharp Add-In for Visual Studio allowing to answer two questions: (1) to which code elements is my aspect applied and (2) which aspects are applied to my code element.

Design Patterns - Using the Observer Pattern in C#

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:30:00 GMT

The Observer Pattern belongs to the category of Behavioral patterns. In some applications, the state of an object (the subject) is constantly changing (Ex: the price of a product varies depending on market demand). There could be other objects (observers) that are interested in getting notified when the state of the subject changes. The Observer Pattern can be used to communicate the changes between a subject and one or more observers. The Observer Pattern defines a one to one dependency between the subject and the observers so that when a subject changes state, all the observers are notified.

What's New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part- II

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:45:02 GMT

In part 1 of this article, we went through a new feature of WCF - 'Simple Configuration'. In this second part of the article series, we will see how WCF 4.0 performs routing.

Nuclex Framework on CodePlex

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:45:01 GMT

Nuclex.org has finally published their Nuclex Framework, a library of advanced building blocks for XNA game programming, as Open Source on CodePlex! Just some of the features: 3D Vector font rendering, multi-threaded particle system simulation, 3D SpriteBatch replacement, content compression using LZMA (7-Zip), graphical user interfaces with skin support, texture atlas creation, game state management, collision detection, C++' deque ported to C#, debug overlay renderer, automatic vertex declaration creator, game state management and more, all organized into neatly isolated building blocks you can pick from. The code has more than 1,400 unit tests with some assemblies achieving 100.0% test coverage and is thoroughly and completely documented.

Integrating OpenID in an ASP.NET MVC Application using DotNetOpenAuth

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:00:02 GMT

OpenId is getting more popular and with it requests to integrate it into Web sites as a user authentication mechanism. In this post I'll discuss the OpenId integration on CodePaste.net in an ASP.NET MVC application discussing both high level OpenId concepts, the process and the code implementation.

Learning Nant: Creating Token Driving Configuration Files

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:45:00 GMT

Taking a look at how we can create dynamic config files by putting tokens in your files and letting Nant replace those tokens for each user based on their unique settings.