Dynamic CSS with Razor (part 2)(www.h3mm3.com)

submitted by hemme(169) 4 days, 11 hours ago

In PART ONE we saw how to create a gradient programmatically in order automate a CSS stylesheet using the Razor engine. We started from a base color in the RGB space and converted it to the HSL space. Given its Lightness we could easily build shades and highlights of the starting color. read more...

2 comments |category: MVC |Views: 212

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Basic Raven DB Indexing and Querying with Lucene(unstructuredthinking.blogspot.com.au)

submitted by guffshemr(178) 4 days, 21 hours ago

We've got up and running with Raven DB for our new project, which has been a delight to use from a code perspective, but one of the big gaps for me is figuring out how to do SQL like queries. I'm not too bad at putting a SQL query together as something I do semi-regularly as part of my job, so I thought it shouldn't be too much of a stretch to start pulling some statistics. I was wrong. read more...

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Why is RAID So Important for Databases?(www.sqlservercurry.com)

submitted by flyingkick(331) 5 days, 22 hours ago

A good server design has no, or very few, single points of failure. One of the most common server component that fails, are disks. So data redundancy becomes essential to recoverability. Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks (RAID) is a disk system that provides better fault-tolerance by making use of redundancy of disk(s). read more...

1 comment |category: Database |Views: 140

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Running your TeamCity builds from PowerShell for any Git branch(www.laurentkempe.com)

submitted by laurentkempe(312) 6 days, 13 hours ago

I love TeamCity and use it since a while to automate my build/release processes. As human we should never do the work a machine can do, we have certainly better and more interesting things to do. The habit I saw in the different projects I worked for is to create new TeamCity builds for the branches you work on. It take quite some work to do, even with templates… So I came with another way of doing it. It is leverage Git, PowerShell and the possibility to run TeamCity builds by “Accessing Server by HTTP” read more...

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Web Essentials and CSSCop for Visual Studio 2010 (www.techbubbles.com)

submitted by kalyanms1(1725) 7 days, 9 hours ago

This post discuss about new features in Web Essentials extension and Image optimizer which helps developers to write web applications faster. A new extension CSSCop which is a FXCop for style sheets. You can download the Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2010 here. The CSSCop can be download from here. Download link for Image Optimizer is here. You can read my previous post on Web Standards update here to refresh your memories. read more...

1 comment |category: Products |Views: 43

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Debugging Windows Service(pavanarya.wordpress.com)

submitted by pavanarya(106) 7 days, 13 hours ago

In this post we can see the process of debugging windows services read more...

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Lucene.net - Ultra-fast search for MVC or Webforms(www.codeproject.com)

submitted by dpeterson(3474) 10 days, 16 hours ago

Mikhail T. has put together an article showing how you can integrate the Java-based Apache Lucene project with your .Net based MVC or WebForms sites, giving you ultra-fast and slick search capabilities. read more...

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Improve WCF services testability with simple Dependency Injection(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by roadan(90) 13 days, 19 hours ago

Dependency injection is a great technique to reduce coupling between components and improve testability. Manually injected dependencies are dependencies which are passed manually to an object's constructor. When using WCF we depend on the WCF run time to create new instances of our service class. This solution provides a way to easily control service class instantiation for any type of WCF service read more...

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Thread Safe High Performance Capped Queue(gal-segal.com)

submitted by corneto(135) 13 days, 21 hours ago

Lately I was busy creating a new infrastructure for our logging system. I work on OpenBook - a website that gets a lot of traffic and involves with many different business processes. I started logging errors, info data and more with the excellent log4net to files, but has the logs got bigger and longer it became almost impossible to track it. We also use several IIS servers behind a load – balancer, and the result is a lot of logs on many different servers. read more...

1 comment |category: C# |Views: 170

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SQL Server Virtualization Notes(cecildt.blogspot.com)

submitted by cecildt(203) 18 days, 23 hours ago

Virtualization of SQL Server these days are becoming more a reality and common practice. Usually if you mention SQL Server and Virtualization in one sentence people will look at you as if you are a mad man. With this post I would like to talk about a couple of notes you need to consider when you virtualize SQL Server. When using a hypervisor to consolidate your SQL Servers into a virtualization environment you need to think about the impact on CPU, Memory, Storage and Network performance and management. read more...

1 comment |category: SQL |Views: 100

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Going Faster: Sexy numbers and full post-mortem(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by dpeterson(3474) 20 days, 17 hours ago

In a followup to my article on how not to suck at serving web content, I go over what we did to improve page performance at DotNetKicks and why it worked. Read the first post if you haven't already: http://blogs.dotnetkicks.com/dnk-jump-in/2011/12/21/going-faster-how-not-to-suck-at-serving-web-content/ read more...

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A few principles for writing blazing fast code in .NET(www.smelser.net)

submitted by JoeGeeky(364) 21 days, 9 hours ago

Just a few tips to write code that requires higher performance demands read more...

2 comments |category: C# |Views: 934

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Phil Haack, Keith Dahlby and Paul Betts on Git for Windows(herdingcode.com)

submitted by jongalloway(4350) 23 days, 8 hours ago

Herding Code podcast talking to Phil Haack and Paul Betts (both new GitHubbers) and Keith Dahlby (author of posh-git, a set of PowerShell scripts which provide Git/PowerShell integration) about using Git on Windows. read more...

4 comments |category: Community |Views: 233

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Arachnophobia – Spider, Spider go away, come again another day(www.diaryofaninja.com)

submitted by wiredone(863) 25 days, 5 hours ago

While working on soon-to-be-released projects there has often been a need to make a staging/testing website publicly accessible for client testing. This is a slippery slope if search engine spiders get in and index your site before the rest of the world is meant to see it (it happens more than you’d like to think) – If it happens to be a website you are building for something that the rest of the world shouldn’t see yet such as a product/service launch, having it leak too early can often make or break you. They have a word that describes this very fear of spiders – it’s called Arachnophobia. read more...

3 comments |category: ASP.NET |Views: 70

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Visual Studio Achievements, now a reality!(blog.whiletrue.com)

submitted by rudib(49) 25 days, 11 hours ago

Follow up to last year's comic story on Visual Studio having game-like achievements. read more...

3 comments |category: Visual Studio |Views: 304

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Visual Studio Achievements, now a reality!(blog.whiletrue.com)

submitted by rudib(49) 25 days, 11 hours ago

Follow up to last year's comic story on Visual Studio having game-like achievements. read more...

3 comments |category: Visual Studio |Views: 304

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