Managing social data in Silverlight: do you push or pull?(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 3 months ago

A discussion about how to handle service calls for social applications using data like Twitter: do you pull from the server or push to the client? Includes a complete reference application for demonstrating pushing Twitter data asynchronously to a Silverlight client. read more...

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A fluent C# library for Twitter(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 4 months ago

This C# library allows you to compose queries to Twitter easily, as well as serialize responses into data classes, make asynchronous calls, and perform caching and URL shortening automatically. It covers 100% of the Twitter API. read more...

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Composing animations with Silverlight.FX(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 5 months ago

Shows how to use Nikhil Kothari's Silverlight.FX with a fluent interface to build composable animations like jQuery. read more...

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How to determine generic implementers and type parameters at runtime(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 5 months ago

A few extension methods to help when working with generic interfaces, and the types declared with them, at runtime. read more...

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Improving the readability of the Specification pattern(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 5 months ago

A quick tip on how to use extension methods to improve the readability of the Specification pattern. read more...

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Reducing the Cost of Change(ayende.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 6 months ago

A philisophical comment on how the biggest hurdle to reducing the cost of change in software is treating change as costly. read more...

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LINQ + WCF + Silverlight(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 7 months ago

A seven part article with a full solution for setting up a CRUD application across tiers, one of which is a Silverlight application. read more...

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A better JavaScript minifier(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 8 months ago

A complete C# port of Yahoo's YUI Compressor is now available on CodePlex. It also provides complete MSBUILD support. read more...

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From ASP.NET to Silverlight in Five Leaps(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 9 months ago

Starting to work on Silverlight with an ASP.NET background? Here are five subtle shifts in thinking you'll need when planning your first project. read more...

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Thoughts on building social software in .NET(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 10 months ago

Describes how lack of adoption and existing conventions might cause someone to avoid .NET for social networking projects, with a few ideas on how LINQ's strengths can help separate what makes a social application unique, from everything else we can automate and conventionalize. read more...

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IDictionary's missing methods(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 10 months ago

A set of extension methods to make any IDictionary-implementing collections easier to work with: TryGetValue, ContainsKey, and RemoveAll. read more...

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Books vs. blogs: the value of technical books and ideas to improve the(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 10 months ago

Some ideas to raise the value of technical books so that they survive in the face of constant technical change that blogs can adapt to instantly. read more...

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Being Smart Does Not a Good Developer Make(codethinked.com)

submitted by mjeaton(724) 3 years, 10 months ago

Not every programmer needs to be a crazy mathematical genius who knows every algorithm and data structure known to man (although I think Steve Yegge would argue differently). read more...

2 comments |category: Community |Views: 395

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Experimental LINQ to SQL template(damieng.com)

submitted by sidarok(1715) 3 years, 10 months ago

Damien shows a very nice way of customizing code generation of Linq to SQL read more...

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Microsoft cracking down on community extensions(lovethedot.blogspot.com)

submitted by Ragoczy(655) 3 years, 10 months ago

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better. read more...

5 comments |category: C# |Views: 503

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Showing some support for LINQ to SQL(codebetter.com)

submitted by colinjack(1010) 3 years, 10 months ago

Great article detailing why LINQ to SQL deserves some attention particularly if you buy into the object oriented style of development or are currently working with an ORM such as NHibernate. read more...

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