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Responsive Web Design: A Means To Something

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:33:33 GMT

A designer's take on responsive web design.

The Fastest Webserver? - Web Performance

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:44:00 GMT

Looking for the snappiest, fastest web server software available on this here internet? So were we. Valid, independent, non-synthetic benchmarks can be difficult to find. Of course, we all know that benchmarks don't tell us everything we need to know about real-world performance; but what's the fun of having choices if we can't pick the best? Exactly. I decided to do a little research project of my own.

NHibernate Session-Per-Method-Call via StructureMap Nested Containers

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:28:33 GMT

There are several documented approaches you can follow to implement the session-per-method-call pattern with NHibernate and StructureMap. The majority of these approaches fail to leverage the full capabilities of StrurctureMap and are therefore more complex than they need to be. In this short post, I'll show you how you can implement a simpler solution by utilizing StructureMap's nested containers.

What's Nu in the .NET World?

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:27:24 GMT

If you thought the word "Nu" in the title of this blog post was misspelled, you are in for a treat. And trust me, you are not the only one who made that grammatical assumption. Nu is an open source tool built by Dru Sellers that aims at bringing Gems, one of Ruby's most revered features, to the .NET world. If you are not familiar with Gems I suggest you take a minute to read up on them. I would venture a bet that you are already familiar with at least one gem - Ruby on Rails. The following line of code is all that is required to install Ruby on Rails gem (after installing the Ruby library of course)...

Adventures in MVVM - My ViewModel Base

Sun, 09 May 2010 01:17:17 GMT

First, I'd like to say: THIS IS NOT A NEW MVVM FRAMEWORK. That being said, I want to share my ViewModel base class with the world. It has a lot of features, all designed to reduce the friction in writing view models.

Alt.Net Podcast Episode 17: The State of Alt.Net

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:01:04 GMT

Mike Moore talks with Scott Bellware about the state of Alt.Net

Late-Bound Invocation with Expression Trees

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:46:20 GMT

Avoid the cost of reflection for late-bound invocation by using expression trees.

Darryl Hogan - How I Got Started In Programming

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:17:01 GMT

Rick Schummer, FoxPro developer and organizer of Southwest Fox Conference, sits down with Corey and tells his story of how he got started in programming.

Michael Eaton - How I Got Started In Programming

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:21:25 GMT

Michael Eaton was interviewed on how he got started in programming. Great video!

Boo 0.9 released! Biggest Boo release ever!

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:31:40 GMT

Huge improvements everywhere and a boatload of new feature: generator macros, nestabled macros, generic constraints, generic extension methods support, strict-mode, object pattern matching, string interpolation formatting, and last but not least Silverlight support. Read the linked article for the full announcement with an inline example of each highlighted new feature.

Visual Studio Macro: Modify Text Editor Font Size

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:01:03 GMT

Increasing or decreasing the font size of your code in Visual Studio's text editor is almost required whenever VS is fired up on a projector. Anyone who has had to demo code, or give a talk at a user group, or present new technologies to their team has experienced the pain of increasing the font size through the Tools -> Options menu. Using Visual Studio Macros that increase/decrease the font size, this pain can be overcome.

Playing with JSON

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:46:22 GMT

Josh Holmes digs into JSON with Silverlight and a few JSON frameworks... Check out the article to see Silverlight leveraging JSON with System.Json, LINQ and more. There's even samples in raw JavaScript, MSAjax, Prototype and JQuery. Finally he ended it all up by mixing JQuery and Silverlight. That was fun and remarkably simple.

Richard Campbell - How I Got Started In Programming

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:46:02 GMT

Richard Campbell of DotNetRocks was interviewed on how he got started in programming. Great video!

Carl Franklin - How I Got Started In Programming

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:31:02 GMT

Carl Franklin of DotNetRocks was interviewed on how he got started in programming. Great video!

Double-clicking a VS2005 Solution in Vista

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:16:02 GMT

How to make double-clicking a VS2005 .sln launch VS properly in Vista.

Improving the SEO of your blog

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:16:02 GMT

Did you know that yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com are actually different sites? Are they both serving the same content? If so, it may be negatively impacting your search engine rankings. Using HTTP 301 redirects, you can combine these synonymous URLs to increase your page ranking.

Deep Fried Bytes: Looking into the Crystal Ball about C# 4.0

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:09:29 GMT

One of the most exciting announcements from PDC was the news about C# 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. With all the excitement and discussion throughout the event about these new developer tools, we reached out to two experts in the fields. Charlie Calvert and Bill Wagner sat down with Keith and Woody to answer some questions and discussed their new books on LINQ and C# . We also have a short talk with Jason McConnell of the Surface team.

Stealing Someone Else's Work

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:03:31 GMT

"[A blogger] has clearly taken the Microdesk.Utility.UnitTest.dll and torn it open using Reflector or some other similar MSIL decompiler tool and then posted the actual source code on his blog (interestingly, after of course removing the Microdesk from the class namespace designations in the code he's posted so it looks as though its his own effort). " And the Douchebag of the Year award goes to....

How NOT To Optimize LINQ Statements

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:46:03 GMT

About a month ago I was experimenting with different ways to optimize my LINQ queries against the IdeaPipe database, in order to improve the read times. I wanted to improve the read times because our new Facebook Application was being launched and I anticipated an increase in our traffic to the server, which is used to host IdeaPipe and the Facebook Application component. I quickly realized how now to optimize LINQ statements though.

So, What is Duck Typing?

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:16:09 GMT

"I'm going to lay out what I think Duck Typing is, and let you poke holes in it, and tell me where I'm wrong. "

Dear Alt.Net Developers: Stop blaming Microsoft and WebForms for crea

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:46:02 GMT

I am responsible for every website I create. If I create a site or application that is unmaintainable or that has poorly formed HTML or doesn't render well in all browsers, that is my fault. I chose my development tools/framework, or my employer, who I choose to work for, chose the development tools/framework. Either way, it is my responsibility, as a professional, to do my utmost to create the best possible application that is within my capability to create.

Skinning the Cat with Fluent NHibernate

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:01:02 GMT

As you may have noticed, I have become interested in the concept of Object Relational Mapping and the NHibernate framework. One of the more painful/tedious aspects of using NHibernate is hand writing the xml mapping files. That is why I got excited when I heard that Jeremy Miller was open sourcing his mapping generation libraries.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Customers and partners worldwide confirm mission-critical applications, enterprise-class data warehousing support.

Microsoft and Open Source...A New Love Story

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:31:02 GMT

Brian Prince outlines the latest happenings between Microsoft and the open source community. Including sponsoring the Apache Software Foundation.

4 features for C# 4.0

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:16:03 GMT

C# 3.0 still hasnt sunk in yet for most, yet there already seems to be some buzz about c# features we would like to see in the future. Here is my take on the 4 language features i would like to see implemented in C#