Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever 2(toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com)

submitted by jblankenburg(1264) 1 year, 11 months ago

You may recall giving the "Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever" a try last year, and they created a new one for this year. There's 100 levels, and they've got prizes for the first 100 people to finish it! read more...

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N Tier Design Lessons Learned Part 1(stevesmithblog.com)

submitted by benrick(1020) 2 years, 7 months ago

Steve Smith talks about the classic n-tier design using an eight year old application and how he would change the application today read more...

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Constructors Should Be Simple and Stupid(brendan.enrick.com)

submitted by alexandrul.ct(475) 2 years, 9 months ago

There are plenty of commonly known and upheld ideas about how software should be written. There are rules and guidelines professed by many developers which recommend following this design principle or that one. Some are more important than others. Some are easier to find and correct than others. One such rule that I believe is important to follow is that all constructors remain simple and stupid. This is about as advanced as I believe a constructor should even be. ... read more...

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Ad Landing Pages and Customer Conversations : Steve Smith's Blog(stevesmithblog.com)

submitted by dotnetchris(157) 2 years, 9 months ago

Steve Smith talks about the importance of having a call to action for users after being directed to your website. read more...

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Microsoft PDC 2009(stevesmithblog.com)

submitted by sadukie(505) 2 years, 10 months ago

Steve Smith reminds us that the dates for PDC 2009 have changed and to book your hotels *now* since they tend to fill up quickly. read more...

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Free ASP.NET MVC “NerdDinner” Tutorial Now in HTML (weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by siphilp(919) 3 years ago

ScottGu has split the Nerd Dinner tutorial walks throughs into 12 html segments, increasing the sizes of the screens shots and using a nice syntax highlighter. read more...

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Where Are The Developer Machines?(stevesmithblog.com)

submitted by benrick(1020) 3 years, 1 month ago

Steve Smith posts about PCs for software developers, and how computer companies aren't targeting this section of the market. If a computer manufacturer made development machines, how should these computers be configured? read more...

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ASP.NET Control Panel(stevesmithblog.com)

submitted by benrick(1020) 3 years, 2 months ago

Steve smith suggests creating a Control Panel project, which joins together some common plugins for ASP.NET sites. The control panel would join tracing, error logging, cache management, and any other plugins into one plugin which is individually configurable for applications. read more...

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Fiddler for Firefox(stevesmithblog.com)

submitted by benrick(1020) 3 years, 7 months ago

Steve Smith's description how to configure Firefox and Fiddler to work together. read more...

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Graffiti Extension For DotNetKicks(stevesmithblog.com)

submitted by ssmith(1160) 3 years, 8 months ago

Add an extension to Graffiti CMS to automatically link to DotNetKicks with each new post. read more...

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Avoiding Dependencies(stevesmithblog.com)

submitted by ssmith(1160) 3 years, 8 months ago

As a rule, code should not directly depend on external resources such as System.Net.Mail's email sending capabilities. Having code that directly calls out to System.Net.Mail is difficult to unit test as well as difficult to walk through in a test or stage environment without having actual emails sent. Two design patterns can be used to reduce this dependency: Facade and Strategy. The Strategy pattern offers a host of benefits above and beyond what the facade layer provides, as this articles demonstrates with code examples. read more...

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Codebehind Files in ASP.NET MVC Are Evil(stevesmithblog.com)

submitted by ssmith(1160) 3 years, 8 months ago

Having Codebehind files for Views in ASP.NET MVC tempts developers to use web forms style programming in MVC applications. Removing them from the default application templates and new File->ASP.NET MVC View templates will help developers fall into a "pit of success" by eliminating the temptation to put code into codebehind files that should really go into Controllers. read more...

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DevMaven Ads on the Web Log(west-wind.com)

submitted by benrick(1020) 3 years, 10 months ago

This blog post discusses advertising on blogs. In it, Rick Strahl discusses how and why he used to advertise and why he switched to using DevMaven Ads exclusively. read more...

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What to Know About Value Types and Reference Types in C#(aspalliance.com)

submitted by do7ne7n008(20) 3 years, 10 months ago

Value types and reference types are important concepts in C#. In this article, Brendan describes these concepts in an easy way. This beginners' tutorial is written to help people unfamiliar with these concepts to gain a basic understanding of them. read more...

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Cache Access Pattern Revised(stevesmithblog.com)

submitted by ssmith(1160) 3 years, 10 months ago

Some updates to the Cache Access Pattern using new features of the .NET framework, such as System.Func. read more...

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Tuples in F#(diditwith.net)

submitted by benrick(1020) 4 years, 4 months ago

Dustin explains why he likes F# in a whole series of posts. This one talks about tuples in F#. read more...

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