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C# vs Ruby

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:31:15 GMT

Interesting observation

Web developers. You suck.

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:46:05 GMT

Well, JavaScript developers, specifically. In order to aid in development of my own websites, I enabled JavaScript debugging in Internet Explorer a few weeks back. To my horror, I have quickly experienced what seems to be complete disregard for serving syntactically correct JavaScript on the open internet. No, I'm not just talking about a few niche websites, run by amateur programmers. I am talking about industry-leading nerd-friendly powerhouse websites that should know better.

Integrating Castle Windsor and NHibernate with WCF - Throwing the WCF

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:13:28 GMT

About integrating Castle Windows and NHibernate with WCF making use of Rhino tools

The Future of ASP.NET AJAX

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:46:16 GMT

My analysis of the ASP.NET Team's tentative road map for ASP.NET AJAX v.Next and beyond, followed by a few additional recommendations.

ASP.NET MVC preview release 4 - part 1

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:01:09 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week. The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC. Starting with Preview 4 this week you'll start to see more and more higher level features begin to appear that build on top of the core foundation and add nice productivity. There are a bunch of new features and capabilities in this new build - so much in fact that I decided I needed two posts to cover them all. This first post will cover the new Caching, Error Handling and Security features in Preview 4, as well as some testing improvements it brings. My next post will cover the new AJAX features being added with this release as well.

Aggiorno, the Italian colleague you've always wanted

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:31:09 GMT

Review of the new Aggiorno plugin for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:46:11 GMT

Cheat sheets are helpful to have around because they allow you to quickly remember code syntax and see related concepts visually. Additionally, they're nice decorative pieces for your office. In this article, you'll find 23 excellent, print-ready cheat sheets for HTML/HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (including MooTools and jQuery).

Inclusion of JavaScript Files

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:46:02 GMT

How do you deal with JavaScript inclusion into the page given that you have a fair number of JavaScript files that are bound to change frequently and across multiple projects/applications?

How To Write Testable ASP.NET WebForms

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:16:15 GMT

Microsoft's upcoming ASP.NET MCV framework makes it easy to write tests for your application layer logic. But what about those of us who are stuck with ASP.NET WebForms? You can still write highly testable ASP.NET WebForms with only a little bit of extra effort. But that extra effort really pays off in the long run. In this post, i'll give a detailed description of one approach that has worked for me really well.

Pains of development in Vista

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:48:18 GMT

Describes the pains of development in Vista

Choosing a JavaScript framework and why I don't like ASP.NET AJAX

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:24:26 GMT

Explains how you choose a JavaScript framework and specifically why you shouldn't choose ASP.NET AJAX

DDAD: Domain Driven "Allors" Design

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:16:03 GMT

About domain driven development using a new ORM tool Allors.

Programmer Vs Users

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Users are enemies or friends of the programmer?

PDF Image Grabber Application

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:31:04 GMT

The PDF Image Grabber allows you to take embedded images out of PDF Files. Simply open the PDF, choose the page, and then choose which image you want. Then click the Save button and pick a filename. The file saved will be the original image in the PDF at its original size. Application and Source Code provided.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release

Wed, 28 May 2008 04:16:07 GMT

From ScottGu's weblog - "This morning we released the Preview 3 build of the ASP.NET MVC framework. I blogged details last month about an interim source release we did that included many of the changes with this Preview 3 release. Today's build includes some additional features not in last month's drop, some nice enhancements/refinements, as well as Visual Studio tool integration and documentation."

Create an ASP.NET MVC site with UnitOfWork & NHibernate QueryGen

Wed, 28 May 2008 02:01:27 GMT

Part 4 of the RhinoCommons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC series. Here everything is tied together to create a simple MVC application.

jQuery Books Review

Sat, 31 May 2008 03:31:08 GMT

Here's a review of three jQuery books I've read over the last few months as well as links to a couple of cheat sheets.

Building accessible web forms with ASP.NET

Tue, 27 May 2008 03:18:28 GMT

How to use the label tag and some inline code tags to build accessible web forms with ASP.NET

A good coding font makes a difference. Envy Code R, better than ever!

Wed, 28 May 2008 02:46:12 GMT

Am I the only one who believes a great programming font can boost your productivity and increase your coding joy? Check out Damien Guard's superb new release of Envy Code R, my favorite coding font.

Working with the web model

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:38:51 GMT

A nice follow up that exactly describes why I don't like WebForms either.

Know what happens on your database

Thu, 22 May 2008 04:11:00 GMT

When using NHibernate you need to be aware of what queries it fires to your database

RhinoCommons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC Part 1

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:31:12 GMT

Using Rhino Commons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC for quick website development. Part 1 (Setting everything up)

ASP.NET: officially unmaintainable

Wed, 21 May 2008 19:16:05 GMT

How to wrap the ASP.NET session state

Mon, 19 May 2008 19:16:16 GMT

A handy C# code snippet for accessing ASP.net session state data. Exceptions are handled, usage is intuitive.

Implementing NHibernate interceptors

Sat, 17 May 2008 20:22:54 GMT

The solution to a mistake you can make when implementing NHibernate interceptors