89 Ways for You to Become the Coolest Developer in the World(effectize.com)

submitted by Yura(995) 3 years, 6 months ago

You can learn how to improve your programming skills, work better and enjoy it from this collection of advice from experienced developers. read more...

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CodeRush Xpress for Visual Studio announced(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by kim_major(375) 3 years, 6 months ago

A free subset of CodeRush and Refactor! Pro is now available. read more...

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Documents 2.0 - Consumable Documents(sidarok.com)

submitted by sidarok(1715) 3 years, 8 months ago

Sidar discussing the need for more agile documents in business environments. read more...

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List of countries, cities, languages(amrelgarhytech.blogspot.com)

submitted by amrelgarhy(825) 3 years, 8 months ago

You will find in the following links list of countries, cities, and their languages in CSV format, you can import into any database: read more...

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Improve Your Development Lifestyle(monstersgotmy.net)

submitted by birdchest(595) 3 years, 9 months ago

Developers are usually convinced and persuaded to drink lots of coffee, energy drinks, and sugary snacks to stay in programming Zen. Along with bad snacks you have the long night development crams where managers lure you with pizza, and early morning deployments with incentives of donuts. Take a look around your development environment and see how many people are wearing pants that are too tight, or count the number of bellies pouring over the belt. read more...

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Importance of a Personal Development Plan(elegantcode.com)

submitted by bags(10) 3 years, 9 months ago

Three mandatory books read more...

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SQL Server 2008 Express is now live!(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by wisemx(8074) 3 years, 9 months ago

I promised an update on SQL Express availability in my last post about the release of SQL Server 2008 so here it is. SQL Server 2008 Express is now available along with the release of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, which is a prerequisite and Visual Studio Express SP1. As I mentioned, there are two more editions of SQL Express on the way. There are a number of prerequisites for SQL Server 2008 that you will have to install on your own before installing SQL Express. Here is the list and basic instructions: read more...

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How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND)(trycatchfail.com)

submitted by Matt_TCF(946) 3 years, 9 months ago

The series will cover the things you *shouldn't* do if you hold some sort of managerial stake in a software project. Sadly these tales will be from my own personal experience working for companies that have drifted into disarray. These examples will be embellished somewhat to drive the points home, but by and large, everything you will read in these posts will be true. read more...

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Documenting Coding Standards - Less is More(andrewtokeley.net)

submitted by tokes(1085) 3 years, 9 months ago

A colleague and I were recently invited to provide feedback on a client's coding standards and were sent a 60+ page document to review. In preparation for the meeting I diligently started to go through each section providing comments and suggestions as I went. But after about page 30 my concentration began to wane and my comments grew more and more sparse. The moral of this story... If someone that's being paid to review your coding standards is struggling to get through them then you can bet your bottom dollar your development team won't be reading them either. This post reflects on the things to consider when documenting your company's standards. read more...

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rules for spartan programmers : Using NDepend Query Techniques(codebetter.com)

submitted by dcarr(790) 3 years, 9 months ago

Excellent content as always from the genius behind NDepend. read more...

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Some best practices for NHibernate by Ayende(ayende.com)

submitted by Lord(3737) 3 years, 10 months ago

A few hours ago I completed a code review of an application using NHibernate. This is not the first time I am doing such a thing, of course, and I noticed that there are quite a few areas where I tend to have comments in such code reviews. The following is based on several such code bases that I went through, and contains a partial list of things that you need to watch for. read more...

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Create PDF with C#(aneef.net)

submitted by mfmaneef(455) 3 years, 10 months ago

Create PDF with C# on the fly read more...

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NHibernate: Testing The Performance Urban Legend(iamnotmyself.com)

submitted by NotMyself(215) 3 years, 10 months ago

I wanted to challenge the dogmatic urban legend passed down from .NET developer to .NET developer since the classic ASP days. That dogma simply states you should always access your database via stored procedure for "performance reasons". Inline SQL is BAAAAAAD. So I fired up Visual Studio, created a class and started writing tests. read more...

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Don't Use SELECT *(dotnethitman.spaces.live.com)

submitted by misbaharefin(845) 3 years, 10 months ago

I've seen many developers actually using and abusing SELECT * FROM queries. SELECT * query not only returns unnecessary data, but it also can force clustered index scans for query plans because columns in the SELECT clause are also considered by the optimizer when it identifies indexes for execution plans. read more...

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Silverlight Photo Browser(michielpost.nl)

submitted by supershoe(135) 3 years, 10 months ago

Automatic on-the-fly image discovery and on-the-fly thumbnail creation make this Silverlight Photo Browser / Gallery application very easy to use. read more...

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C# - Singleton Pattern vs. Static Classes(dotnet.dzone.com)

submitted by volume4(910) 3 years, 10 months ago

Problem: Store some common data in a singleton or static class about your program in an object array, which you store in a class. It saves state between usages and stores some caches, and must be initialized only once and shared in many code locations. Making a new object each time would be expensive. read more...

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