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Premature optimization: Not necessarily the root of all evil

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:11:19 GMT

Keyvan Nayyeri gives us an excellent discussion piece regarding the use and abuse of Knuth's quote "Premature optimization is the root of all evil". Nayveri goes on to explain what Knuth really meant by this quote, in the context of his overall work. This is a must read for any developer!

How to Implement 2-Step Verification in ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:48:23 GMT

In this post Keyvan walks through an example to show how to implement 2-step verification (with phone) in ASP.NET MVC applications.

What's new in Subtext 2.5: full-text search, related posts and more

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:45:52 GMT

In Subtext 2.5 we changed the internal search provider from the "like %term%" SQL based one to a more mature and powerful one powered by Lucene.net. I wrote about how Lucene.net is implemented inside Subtext, but it didn't show the benefits for the users. In this post I'm explaining the visible features of the full-text search.

12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:00:01 GMT

In this post Simone Chiaretta outlines a list of 12 best practices to use with ASP.NET MVC.

My ASP.NET MVC stack and why I chosen it

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:00 GMT

In this post Simone Chiaretta talks about the tools, components, and technologies he uses along with ASP.NET MVC to build web applications.

Integrating Exception Handling Into the Development Cycle

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:30:01 GMT

The time to start thinking about exception handling is right after you click File > New Project. Exception handling shouldn't be something you "tack-on" to an application after the fact. Here, I discuss a practical approach to incorporating exception handling into the normal code-writing process.

How to use Ninject 2 with ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:15:00 GMT

In this blog post, Simone has explained how to utilize new Ninject 2.0 in ASP.NET MVC.

Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 - Finally Available

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:30:18 GMT

Kevan announces the availability of the book Beginning ASP.NET MVC by Wrox, and explains in details the contents of the book and the level it is targeting

Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:45:00 GMT

Simone posts the results of the survey about ajax adoption among .NET developers. jQuery gained 58% since 2007 and now is almost tied to the MS Ajax stack (Control toolkit and ajax core)

Open Source or Die - The Real Future of Graffiti?

Tue, 12 May 2009 10:16:02 GMT

Telligent's Graffiti hasn't quite flatlined yet, but the signs aren't looking too good. Could OSS be the way to breathe life back into this once-promising CMS platform?

Custom Controller Factory in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 09 May 2009 12:11:38 GMT

Introducing Controller Factory in ASP.NET MVC

WPF NotifyIcon Released

Mon, 11 May 2009 04:16:04 GMT

This is an implementation of a NotifyIcon (system tray icon) for the WPF platform. It does not just rely on the corresponding WinForms component, but is a purely independent control which leverages several features of the WPF framework in order to display rich tooltips, popups, context menus, and balloon messages.

Free Chapter of Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Published

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:46:05 GMT

Simone Chiaretta announces the availability of chapter 9 of Wrox Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book about Testing ASP.NET MVC Applications and shares some good news about the release date of the book.

ASP.NET MVC brings FUN back inside web development, on .NET

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:01:03 GMT

Simone writes about his impressions on ASP.NET MVC and why it has reactivated the motivation of developers on the .NET community for web development.

IRouteHandler in ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:00:20 GMT

Keyvan explains how to write a RouteHandler that checks for banned IPs and blocks any further processing

What about DataLoadOptions for Entity Framework ObjectContext?

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:01:31 GMT

I think the proper way to start this post is to ask How do you do eager loading with Entity Framework? And the basic native simple answer is by using ObjectQuery<T>.Include(string) method. No matter what you tried to do, you'll end up using this way. So there was ideas about how enhance the eager loading in our Entity Framework base applications. You can read about some of these ideas....

How to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial perf: don't run in debug mode

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:01:01 GMT

There has a been a lot of talking on a possible "big design flaw" in ASP.NET MVC: partial view path resolution was not cached. After a bit of testing I found out that caching kicks in only in release mode. So probably all the other tests were run in debug mode.

ASP.NET MVC Free eBooks

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:16:11 GMT

Here's a list of all sample chapters of ASP.NET MVC books available to the community.

How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:46:04 GMT

Today I stumbled upon a nice presentation that Rudi Benkovic gave last week at the Slovenian DotNet User Group, about ASP.NET MVC Performances. It is an in depth analysis of a Digg-like site and how it went from serving (on a test machine) 6 req/sec to 390 req/sec. The analysis prove the usual rule of performance optimization: no matter what you do to optimize your code, the biggest performance hit is data retrieval, and the first thing you have to optimize is always this. But apart from this obvious outcome, I just want to take out from this presentation the 3 point that are really specific to ASP.NET MVC

How to choose between ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:16:02 GMT

Introducing a worksheet from the upcoming book "ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Programming" to help developers make a decision to choose between MVC and Web Forms in ASP.NET.

5 blogs every asp.net programmer should know analyzed with 31-DBBB day

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:01:12 GMT

31-DBBB day 4 task is to analyze leader blogs in your niche. I do so here with some recommendation I hope you'll enjoy

DZone RefCardz

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:15:40 GMT

DZone RefCardz is becaoming more popular among community guys. In this post Keyvan has talked about it and his (and Simone's) decision to create a RefCard for ASP.NET MVC in near future.

13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:46:06 GMT

One of the main design principles ASP.NET MVC has been designed with is extensibility. Everything (or most of) in the processing pipeline is replaceable so, if you don't like the conventions (or lack of them) that ASP.NET MVC uses, you can create your own services to support your conventions and inject them into the main pipeline. This post shows 13 extensibility points that every ASP.NET MVC developer should know, starting from the beginning of the pipeline and going forward till the rendering of the view.

Git/Github survival guide

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:16:10 GMT

Now that all the cool guys are moving to Git/GitHub, Ivan posts a survival guide, with all the most useful commands of git and how to get started with github/git

ASP.NET MVC goes RTM before MIX09

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:46:04 GMT

Not sure if the release was intentional or just someone that forgot to set the timezone field while publishing the download, but ASP.NET MVC has been RTMed before MIX09.