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Pluralsight launches .NET Podcast Series

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:00:01 GMT

The Pluralcast is a bi-weekly audio show about life on the Microsoft stack, hosted by David Starr. Each episode presents a theme with selected stories on that theme, providing different views of technologies developers use in the real world.

JQuery Validation Library

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:35:18 GMT

A basic getting started guide to working with the JQuery Validation library.

My ideal IDE

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:15:00 GMT

What some of us would like Visual Studio to do for us

NHibernate Linq Released

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:15:03 GMT

Official release announcement for NHibernate Linq 1.0 RTM. Congratulations!

Simplify calling ASP.NET AJAX services from jQuery

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:00:05 GMT

I was happy to learn that jQuery provides an excellent solution for consolidating settings to be used in multiple instances of $.ajax. In this post, I'll show you how to use that consolidation feature, and exactly how I am now using that to more simply call ASP.NET AJAX services with jQuery.

The Law of Demeter Is Not A Dot Counting Exercise

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:45:00 GMT

As a discussion of a code expression with more than one dot grows longer, the probability that someone claims a Law of Demeter violation approaches 1

Dissecting the JQuery text method

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:00:03 GMT

An interesting question came up at work today. We had some existing code that was using the innerText dom method. It worked fine on IE, but not on Firefox (to be clear, I'm used to that working the other way around). If you look at QuirksMode you will see Firefox is the only browser that does not support this method as well. Turns out if you use innerText on any dom element in IE you will get the text inside the element (in this case a span tag), but in Firefox you just get nothing. Time to see how JQuery does what it does.

Castle Windsor 2.0 RTM Released!

Tue, 05 May 2009 11:46:04 GMT

Some would say that it is about time, I would agree. Windsor might not be the OSS project in pre release state for the longest time (I think that the honor belong to Hurd), but it spent enough time at that state to at least deserve a honorary mention. f you will look, you won't find Windsor 1.0, only release candidates for 1.0. As I believe I mentioned, Windsor has been production ready for a long time, and for the full release we decided to skip the 1.0 designator, which doesn't really fit, and go directly to 2.0

Fluent ADO.NET (there's actually a good reason for it!)

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:46:02 GMT

More DAL silliness, but for a good reason. The author was restricted from using an ORM by his client so he came up with a cool way to make his life a little easier. Pretty cool. Scratch that itch!

Talking with Jeremy Miller about Alt.Net

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:16:17 GMT

As a follow up to the last podcast that featured Mike Moore and Scott Bellware discussing Alt.Net I spoke with Jeremy Miller to put out a vision for what he feels Alt.Net should represent and how it can be a positive thing in the community. This will be the last episode here on this topic, I promise to get back to normal technology discussions (next episode is about BDD and TDD).

$(document).ready() and pageLoad() are not the same!

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:16:02 GMT

A few examples about how $(document).ready() and pageLoad() differ, practical examples of when both are useful, and a third alternative that is more suitable in some cases.

VsDoc for jQuery 1.3.1 now available

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:16:02 GMT

John Resig tells us he just uploaded the VsDoc file for jQuery 1.3.1 to jquery.com. This enables IntelliSense for the latest available jQuery.

Asp.Net Checkbox and JQuery

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:36:16 GMT

How to interact with an Asp.Net checkbox, in all its various forms, with JQuery.

"Quality Doesn't Matter That Much" -- Jeff and Joel

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:16:02 GMT

I was riding my exercise bike, listening to Stack Overflow #38 when I heard Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky say "Quality just doesn't matter that much." I nearly fell off my bike.

VAN Meeting - 1-14-08

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:10:59 GMT

Virtual Alt.Net recordings for January 14 meeting

Intro to Virtual ALT.NET

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:46:03 GMT

Introduction to Virtual ALT.NET

ALT.NET Podcast Episode 15: Domain Driven Design

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:31:03 GMT

Talking with Rob Conery and James Avery about Domain Driven Design.

jQuery 1.3 Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:31:02 GMT

"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 in to this release and we're really quite proud of it. "

StructureMap 2.5.2 is Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:31:09 GMT

A fresh release of popular DI framework for .NET.

ALT.NET Podcast 14: Object Databases

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:16:10 GMT

Rob Conery and James Avery discuss object databases.

IoC libraries compared

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:01:06 GMT

A comparison of how to initialize various IoC libraries. Including AutoFac, Ninject, Spring.Net, StructureMap, Unity, and Windsor.

Thinking only of the Junior Developer

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:16:15 GMT

How do you treat Junior developers, what code do you give them, and do you let their presence change your architecture?

Junior Vs Senior Developers?

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:21:06 GMT

Discussion about software development titles. Are they earned, or just a product of time?

Elegant Code Cast 18 - Chris Tavares on EntLib, Unity, and More

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:18:55 GMT

David Starr and company talk with Chris Tavares about his work on the Microsoft Patterns and Practices team, as well as Unity, EntLib (Enterprise Library), and more stuff.

ALT.NET Seattle 2009 is Happening

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:02:17 GMT

If you attended ALT.NET Seattle least year, you might be wondering whether or not it's happening this year. I am excited to announce that we are actually going to host an ALT.NET Seattle conference this year. What: ALT.NET Seattle 2009. (The site is still being worked on. Thanks to Justin Bonozier and Shoshanah Bain for getting the site up). Where: Digipen (thanks to Jeff Tucker for lining up the space) When: Evening February 27th through March 1st. Registration: Opens this tuesday evening at 6PM. We're holding on registration to allow the word to spread. There will be a max of 150 attendees. Check the wiki on Tuesday for details.