Announcing the 2010 Encosia Holiday Giveaway(encosia.com)

submitted by gt1329a(7849) 1 year, 5 months ago

Enter for a chance to win VS2010 Ultimate with one year of MSDN or up to a year's free membership at TekPub. read more...

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Dean Hume - Analytics - Bounce Rate(deanhume.com)

submitted by deanomachino(764) 1 year, 7 months ago

If you are a fellow blogger or Webmaster then read on, because this might interest you somewhat. When I first started out blogging, I added Google Analytics to my site to track visitors and stats. It's a great free tool and generally a really accurate service, and I'm certain that millions of people use this service. However, one of the things that I found was that my bounce rate was unusually high. It was and still is sitting at around 80%. read more...

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Your Software Can Learn A Lot From ATMs(www.codethinked.com)

submitted by justin_etheredge(8539) 1 year, 8 months ago

When it comes to ATMs, failure isn't really an option. But how do they accomplish their high reliability? And how can you leverage that in order to make your software better? read more...

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6,953 reasons why I still let Google host jQuery for me(encosia.com)

submitted by pyccki(357) 1 year, 8 months ago

It’s been nearly two years since I wrote about using Google’s CDN to host jQuery on your public-facing sites. In that post, I recommended it due to three primary benefits that public CDNs offer: decreased latency, increased parallelism, and improved caching. Though the post has been overwhelmingly well-received, concerns have been raised as to whether or not the likelihood of better caching is truly very significant. Since the efficacy of that benefit depends entirely on how many other sites are using the same CDN, it takes quite a bit of research to make an objective case either way. I’ve never been happy about responding with vague answers. Caching probability is a valid concern and deserves to be taken seriously. So, I decided to cobble together an HTTP crawler, analyze 200,000 of the most popular sites on the Internet, and determine how many of those are referencing jQuery on Google’s public CDN. read more...

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Don’t let jQuery’s $(document).ready() slow you down(encosia.com)

submitted by gt1329a(7849) 1 year, 9 months ago

A couple examples of situations where jQuery's $(document).ready() may be unnecessarily slowing you down. read more...

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Sometimes, even jQuery can’t save you from yourself(encosia.com)

submitted by gt1329a(7849) 1 year, 10 months ago

This post describes a cross-browser problem I had with jQuery that turned out to be my own fault, including a runthrough of debugging process and the eventual solution. read more...

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Using an iPhone with the Visual Studio development server(encosia.com)

submitted by gt1329a(7849) 1 year, 11 months ago

A workaround to allow testing ASP.NET sites from external devices, for iPhone/mobile testing. read more...

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Demystifying Silverlight IIS Smooth Streaming(brandonpotter.wordpress.com)

submitted by BrandonPotter(40) 1 year, 11 months ago

One of the hot topics lately is Silverlight Smooth Streaming; this post is great for learning how Smooth Streaming works, both in concept and actually how it plays out on the server side. read more...

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Adorners(silverlightmaster.com)

submitted by gagglefish(55) 1 year, 11 months ago

A method for saving the position and size of images resized with adorners. read more...

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DMO to SMO(www.kodefuguru.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 1 year, 11 months ago

I recently upgraded from Team Foundation Server 2008 to Team Foundation Server 2010. This broke many msbuild tasks, including one that generates database scripts. One of the prerequisites of the TFS upgrade was upgrading the SQL Server from 2005 to 2008. I found that the msbuild task was using DMO to generate the scripts and had been marked as deprecated, so I went about replacing the old COM library with SQL Management Objects, or SMO. read more...

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ASMX ScriptService mistake – Invalid JSON primitive(encosia.com)

submitted by gt1329a(7849) 1 year, 11 months ago

Background on what causes this infamous "invalid JSON primitive" error and an example of how to fix the most common cause. read more...

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Going Lazy<T> with System.Lazy(www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 2 years ago

Taking a look at the how to use the System.Lazy namespace in .Net 4.0. One of the pretty cool new nuggets inside the .Net 4.0 framework is System.Lazy and System.Lazy. What System.Lazy brings to the table is a way to create objects which may need to perform intensive operations and defer the execution of the operation until it is 100% absolutely needed. read more...

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Dynamic Type to do away with Reflection(www.west-wind.com)

submitted by BigTuna(219) 2 years ago

Make your reflection code faster and cleaner with the new dynamic type. read more...

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AddThis.NET v2 for Blogengine.NET released(www.code-in.net)

submitted by baldi(508) 2 years ago

AddThis.NET is a Blogengine.NET extensions which adds social bookmarking buttons to your posts based on AddThis. A seperate DotnetKicks and DotnetShoutout button will be displayed, which can also be removed if you are no .net developer. read more...

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I’m giving away 10 free months of TekPub this week(encosia.com)

submitted by gt1329a(7849) 2 years ago

A contest to win free trial memberships to TekPub, running all this week. read more...

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Quickly Trim all your model's string properties – Speed results(markkemper1.blogspot.com)

submitted by mkemper(518) 2 years ago

With my Quickly Trim all your model's string properties post causing quite a stir (2 comments), I have decided to post a follow up and actually test the speed. read more...

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