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HanselMinutes: Women in Technology in the Muslim World - with Aby And (www.hanselminutes.com)

submitted by mosessaurmosessaur(5424) 2 years, 2 months ago

Scott's in Egypt today and he had the opportunity to sit down with Lamees and Abeer, two successful women in IT. Lamees is a programmer transitioning to Systems Analysis, and Abeer is a veteran Senior Systems Analyst and Agile Project Manager at Dashsoft. Nearly 50% of the people at Cairo Code Camp are women. What is Egypt doing right to encourage so many women to choose technology as their career? read more...

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Tool Based Development vs Tool Based Developers(razor.preneer.com)

submitted by TonyA680TonyA680(25) 2 years, 4 months ago

Tools are meant to increase the efficiency of putting knowledge into practice, not to replace knowledge itself. read more...

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C# lambda and foreach variable(resnikb.wordpress.com)

submitted by resnikbresnikb(110) 2 years, 9 months ago

Surprising behavior of lambdas read more...

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WinDbg + SOS Cheat Sheet(kentb.blogspot.com)

submitted by akcoderakcoder(830) 2 years, 10 months ago

A WinDbg + SOS cheat sheet that will print nicely on a sheet of A4 paper. read more...

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The Greatest Exception Handling WTF?!? of All Time(leedumond.com)

submitted by leedumondleedumond(2144) 2 years, 11 months ago

The Exception object has ONE purpose and ONE purpose only – to represent a runtime error, nothing more. Exceptions should never be used for purposes for which they were not intended -- or you could end up with this monstrosity... read more...

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How to test your multi-threaded code (part 1 of 3)?(blog.decarufel.net)

submitted by decarufedecarufe(959) 3 years ago

CHESS is the answer. At least this is what we have best right now. read more...

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No bandwidth MSDN: Reflector(james.newtonking.com)

submitted by JamesNKJamesNK(3020) 3 years, 1 month ago

How you can use Reflector to browse the insides of the .NET framework classes and why choosing Reflector over MSDN will make you a better developer. read more...

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DebuggerDisplay and DebuggerBrowsable – Two Debugger Attributes to kno(dev102.com)

submitted by razamitrazamit(4566) 3 years, 1 month ago

two very useful debugger attributes any programmer should know read more...

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5 Minute Tutorial on Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)(milkcarton.com)

submitted by akcoderakcoder(830) 3 years, 1 month ago

A quick, to the point tutorial on exposing and consuming a plugin architecture created with MEF. read more...

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ReSharper 4.5 gone gold(blog.andreloker.de)

submitted by alokeraloker(1810) 3 years, 1 month ago

JetBrains has released version 4.5 of their multi purpose productivity plugin for Visual Studio, ReSharper. This updates contains some pretty cool features. For example, solution wide analysis now checks for members that can be made internal. Also, JetBrains promises to have improved performance and memory use. All in all certainly an update that is worth installing, especially because updating from licenses for version 4.0 and above is free read more...

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Content Stealing Jerks(kevinwilliampang.com)

submitted by kpanghmckpanghmc(2055) 3 years, 1 month ago

I've grown somewhat accustomed to seeing my articles regurgitated on some random blogger's site and passed off as their own. Usually I just send content stealing jerk (CSJ for future reference) an e-mail asking that they provide some sort of link back to my original article and leave it at that. Sometimes they comply, oftentimes they don't. In the end, life goes on. After all, it's not like I'm going to press charges over it. read more...

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Do You *Really* Need a College Degree to Get a Programming Job?(javaworld.com)

submitted by estherschindlerestherschindler(550) 3 years, 2 months ago

There's plenty of articles about the shortage of skilled IT workers and the difficulty experienced by companies in finding qualified software developers. The whining would be far more credible if the Want Ads didn't have a silly, arbitrary qualification: a college degree. read more...

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Ruby’s send in C#(blog.andreloker.de)

submitted by alokeraloker(1810) 3 years, 2 months ago

An C# implementation of the send function found in Ruby. read more...

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Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by beckelmwbeckelmw(2755) 3 years, 2 months ago

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now – announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I’ve been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox. The book is now in production, and will be available to buy in stores soon read more...

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Posting data to a REST service using C#(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittakerdwhittaker(13.1k) 3 years, 2 months ago

A short overview on how you can post data to a REST based service using C#. read more...

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What’s the difference between CONST and READONLY in .Net?(carlj.ca)

submitted by CarlJCarlJ(875) 3 years, 2 months ago

Ever sit around talking to your co-workers about random things, when all of a sudden you ask “What’s the difference between const and readonly in .Net?“. If so, you are not alone. If not, well, you’re just weird. read more...

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