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Redis 2.4.6 has been released

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:11:44 GMT

Redis 2.4.6 has been release,it fixes a critical replication bug and adds a minor feature

New Cassandra/CQL reference cards ready for download

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:34:17 GMT

If you're like me and sometimes struggle to remember the particular syntax for a CQL or Cassandra nodetool or CLI command, we've got something for you that might help. You can now download reference cards for CQL, along with the Cassandra CLI and nodetool. They're free and pretty darn attractive if I do say so myself. Download them now and let us know what you think.

ASP.NET MVC 3 Real Time Collaborative Apps with SignalR

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:53:27 GMT

In this article, we'll create a simple blog app using ASP.NET MVC 3 and SignalR, that will allow multiple collaborators to review the same article in real-time

Essential guide to ASP.NET MVC3 performance

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:16:43 GMT

The .NET CLR can give your web application a significant performance boost compared to other platforms such as PHP due to it's compiled nature. Not only does your .NET code perform better because it's more low-level, it also comes with good support for parallel programming. This guide will not explain the basics of a responsive and fast web application by talking about CSS minifying, sprites, content delivery networks, etc. Instead this guide will be an essential guide for making sure you don't miss any features that can enhance the performance of your ASP.NET MVC3 application.

NHibernate: Collections of components - an alternative

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:33:28 GMT

When we have a model where an entity has some properties collections used for displaying it to the customer and we are not querying our data by these properties at all, it may seem right to map these collections in NHibernate as collections of components. Component in NHibernate is an object without its own identity, being a part of its parent entity. Our collections sounds similiar in terms of lifetime and ownership, but different in terms of relationship - these are one-to-many. In complex scenarios, additional queries became a serious issue. We've decided to try another solution - it's so simple that it can't go wrong.

Ruby Rake Files And Directories manipulation tasks

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:15:36 GMT

Collection of Ruby Rake code snippets for manipulating files and directories during continuous integration process

The CQRS Dilemma and Related Random Thoughts

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:16:32 GMT

Anoop Madhusudanan writes about CQRS and why he is no longer a skeptic, and answers the question "Do I need CQRS?"

Assault by GC

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:12:33 GMT

Well-known .NET developer Marc Gravell details how he eliminated some performance problems through clever use of structures, and explains how the CLR garbage collector behaves.

Using Node.js in an ASP.NET MVC application with iisnode

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:43:25 GMT

iisnode makes it easy to run Node.js on Windows, and since it's an HTTP Handler you can integrate it directly into an ASP.NET application. Neat, huh?

Tidy your HTML with Asp.Net TidyManaged vs Tidy.net

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:37:34 GMT

I recently stumbled upon a small bug which had to do with a part of C# code that cleans up an HTML string which came from a database. This string is used as output on the web and therefore needs to be w3c and tidy! I always used Tidy.Net for it. Really liked it and decided to check for a new version of that library while I was doing some code maintenance. That library's latest release date is from June 2005! that's over 6 years old! So I decided to go and look for a better solution. I found the TidyManaged project from June 2010. I wasn't directly motivated to migrate to this library so my next step was a showdown between the two.

Global.asax? Use HttpModules Instead!

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:39:29 GMT

Explanation of using HttpModules instead of using gobal.asax

Silverlight 2 Released

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:16:25 GMT

Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2. You can download Silverlight 2, as well the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 tool support to target it,

Using ASP.NET AJAX Accordion to Dynamically Display DB Content

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:46:04 GMT

This article will help you to set up an Our Authors/ Employee/Top Contributor or any page with a similar concept for your website. In this article, we will see how to dynamically pull data (along with images) from the database and display it using an ASP.NET AJAX Accordion control. We will be using the data from the Employees table of the Northwind database.

Silverlight 2 out with plans for development support on Mac and Linux

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:59:54 GMT

Today Microsoft delivered on the Rich Internet Platform promise and made public its official release of Silverlight 2.0 along with a set of Open Source initiatives that not only will allow us access to a big set of controls source but also the ability to build Silverlight apps outside Visual Studio and even outside of the Windows Platform.

The Cloud OS

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:38:02 GMT

Surely, Microsoft doesn't expect developers to write a web app\service and connect to SSDS over the tubes even with SSL. The missing link is a cloud based application development platform. This has to be coming and I predict it to be announced at PDC.

C# 3.0 Query Expression Translation Cheat Sheet

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:26:15 GMT

Excellent guide which we are expanding to cover all Expressions.

Drag and Drop controls at runtime using Silverlight 2

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:31:03 GMT

In this article, we will see how to add drag-drop functionality on controls kept in the Silverlight plug-in, at runtime. We will explore how to add the MouseMove, MouseDown and MouseUp events generically to all the controls. We will also see how to drag the Button control.

The DataGrid Column types

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:40:07 GMT

This is my third article about the DataGrid control in Silverlight 2. The first one was a brief introduction to the control and the second one was focused on some basic customizations of it. This one will discuss the column types that are present in the DataGrid control. There are three column types - TextColumn, CheckBoxColumn and a TemplateColumn.

WPF iPhone Checkbox

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:26:39 GMT

a control developed in WPF

Disabling/Enabling asp.net checkboxlist items using javascritp

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:59:31 GMT

Disabling / Enablin Asp.net net list box items using javascript.....

Javascript Closures

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:16:22 GMT

One of the features of Javascript is closures , Javascript closures keep the local variables of a function even after it returns.

Dojo Toolkit Series

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:31:43 GMT

A starting point on using the DojoToolkit.

Creating a Custom Validation Control in ASP.NET

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:46:09 GMT

The BaseValidator class defines the basic implementation needed for all Validation controls. There are 6 Validation Controls included in the ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 3.5 framework which validate controls to prevent the users from entering wrong data. However, there are a few shortcomings in these controls. The good part is that ASP.NET provides the framework to create new validation controls. If you would like to create your own validation control, you can do so by deriving a new control from the BaseValidator abstract class. In this article, we will explore how to create a custom validation control in ASP.NET and provide both Server and Client Side Validation for the same.

What Goes In Must Come Out

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:12:12 GMT

In essence all computer systems are about I/O, data is send against the system and data is sent back. Splitting logic into Business rules and ETL.

Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Software Managers all around the globe, need to have some metric to estimate their workers. Sometimes the management event wants to create a precise and measurable way to know the programming progress and the developers productivity and performance. One of those methods is called SLOC - Source Lines Of Code. This metric is used measure the size of the software by counting...