A recipe for Dev to Production with ASP.NET MVC and RavenDB(devdirective.com)

submitted by RobertTheGrey(447) 1 month, 24 days ago

Been meaning to spend time looking into a NOSQL solution, but don't have time to do the research? Now is your chance! We've broken it down for you so you can get at this topic from dev to production. So, don't be tentative and let procrastination hold you back. Learn this stuff! You'll be happy you gave it the time it deserves... read more...

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Agile is a Sham(williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)

submitted by pwhe23(972) 1 month, 27 days ago

Agile is a Sham. Thats SCRUM and TDD and all the rest; it is all those new ways of managing development projects and being super-productive and modern and buzzword-compliant; all the sprints, scrums, playing cards crass commercial nonsense. read more...

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Roundup(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 2 months, 17 days ago

In case you’ve been living under a rock, you should probably know that Microsoft released a Consumer Preview version of Windows 8 this week. We've dug through some of the more interesting links and digested them for you here. Check out the build and let us know what you think of it! read more...

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Going Faster: How not to suck at serving web content(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 5 months, 5 days ago

We've noticed some performance issues here on the DNK site. Check out our findings and read about how we're going to fix it! These are problems anyone running a website can run into, do yourself a favor and learn from our mistakes. read more...

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DNK .Net Dog Pile 12-16-2011(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 5 months, 7 days ago

Here’s 4 articles recently that Drew and Paul think are worth some discussion. So we’re sending them out for everyone to join in and give their 2 cents worth. read more...

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Best of DNK - November 2011 - What's All the Hubbub, Bub?(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 5 months, 18 days ago

We’re closing in on the new year; it’s hard to believe the next time we put together a best-of it will be 2012! It’s been a fantastic year thus far and November was no exception. We’ve had a lot of fresh blood join the ranks lately, as well as a few familiar faces who’ve come back for more, hot .Net action! Check out our picks after the jump! read more...

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.NET code or SQL – where’s the performance problem?(www.codeproject.com)

submitted by bsenoff(1583) 5 months, 18 days ago

Identifying an application’s performance bottlenecks is all about understanding how the application is spending its time. Only with the most complete understanding of how an application is operating is it possible to understand what it is doing wrong, as this article describes. read more...

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Responsive Web Design: A Means To Something(maxfoundry.com)

submitted by arcware(85) 5 months, 19 days ago

A designer's take on responsive web design. read more...

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Why We Don’t Support IE6, IE7, and (Mostly) IE8(maxfoundry.com)

submitted by bsenoff(1583) 5 months, 21 days ago

Interesting perspective on dealing or not dealing with web site support of different browsers. read more...

2 comments |category: IE |Views: 481

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5 Tips for Avoiding Automatic Garbage Collections(www.red-gate.com)

submitted by bsenoff(1583) 6 months, 3 days ago

The garbage collector is a brilliant piece of software engineering, but sometimes collections occur at inconvenient times. If you need to write high performance, real-time code, you generally want to avoid GC collections during times where execution speed is critical. read more...

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Code First? What about Code Second?(drc.ideablade.com)

submitted by bsenoff(1583) 6 months, 9 days ago

What if your application must work with an existing database, perhaps with 300 tables or more? While you may want to write and maintain your entity model in Code First style, you're not looking forward to writing 300 entity classes by hand. Fortunately, you don't have to. You can jump-start your code base by generating the initial classes from the database schema and then continue Code First from there. We call this approach "Code Second". read more...

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Closing the feedback loop(www.youtube.com)

submitted by bsenoff(1583) 6 months, 15 days ago

Red Gate's Mark Wightman and Kevin Boyle discuss feedback mechanisms in software development at Agile Cambridge. read more...

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Windows 8 Metro apps in JavaScript(neverindoubtnet.blogspot.com)

submitted by bsenoff(1583) 6 months, 20 days ago

I’m having a blast exploring Windows 8 Metro app development and poking around in the preview bits shipped at the 2011 BUILD conference. Last weekend, I presented on Metro app development using JavaScript at the Silicon Valley Code Camp. read more...

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Best of DNK - .Net Articles of October 2011 – Fresh Off the Presses!(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 6 months, 24 days ago

We’ve been seeing fantastic growth, month after month at DNK. October was no different with great articles and even more participation from the community. We’ve seen an increase in the number of comments on articles, as well as an increase in authors coming to DNK to join in on the discussion on their work. read more...

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A look at Dependency Injection and Inversion(devdirective.com)

submitted by RobertTheGrey(447) 7 months, 6 days ago

There seems to be a fair amount of confusion around this topic, a particularly useful tool in the SOLID toolbox, but in the wrong hands can go horribly wrong. Let's try and set the record straight now... read more...

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Devops at Adzerk(team.adzerk.com)

submitted by bsenoff(1583) 7 months, 7 days ago

From our sister company, Adzerk, James Jeffers speaks about how the company has designed it's software process to get around the dev/production bottleneck inherent in most companies. read more...

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