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Strings and performance

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:07:57 GMT

I really cannot stress enough importance of using StringBuilder class for string concatenation. The reason is obvious: PERFORMANCE! I know that most programmers are aware of the possible string concatenations performance problems but somehow this issue is still being overlooked and many make the mistake...

Replace Comments With Code

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:28:12 GMT

It's tempting to just leave this blog post with that statement only :-) I will however explain this a bit further for those of you who either are forced to write comments (like by your boss or a policy at your company), or actually believe a lot of comments in code increase readability and ease maintenance.

.NET - IP Address Location In ASP.NET

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:45:02 GMT

Get client's ip address from a free online web query.

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 9: The State of IronRuby

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:31:13 GMT

Learn about Ruby, why you should check it out, and what the status is on the IronRuby project,

Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:46:03 GMT

Programmers all have their personal pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, there are certain nuisances that we must put up with in our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow along with some of my own experiences as a programmer:

Scraping, or Programatically Accessing, a Secure Webpage

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:46:11 GMT

There are many secure websites out there that provide useful information but do not have a public API to access it's data. A prime example of this is the LinkedIn website. You might love to gather some info from LinkedIn, but their promise to deliver a public API has yet to come to fruition. The problem is, the pages with all the good data are secure, requiring the user to log in before accessing these pages. Let's say we want to scrape this data from these pages programatically? We need to authenticate to access these pages. We can do that by reusing the authentication cookie from the site that we receive when we log in with a browser.

TimeZone vs. TimeZoneInfo in .Net

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:31:04 GMT

Understanding the TimeZoneInfo classin .Net 3.5 and how it compares to the standard TimeZone class.

DateTime vs. DateTimeOffset in .Net

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:01:10 GMT

Understanding the DateTimeOffset struct in .Net 3.5 and how it compares to the standard DateTime struct.

ASP.NET Dynamic Data - Simple 5 Table Northwind Example

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:31:09 GMT

Excellent summary of what you can do with Dynamic Data - a huge timesaver for most common CRUD-style sites

Organize Usings Across Your Entire Solution

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:01:06 GMT

One of the features I worked on for the Visual Studio 2008 release was the new "Organize Usings" feature. This feature allows you to: Remove Unused Usings - Determines which using directives are not used in the current file and deletes them. Sort Usings - Sorts the using directives in a file.

The Complete Reference for Any jQuery Developer

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:31:02 GMT

If you ever to do something with jQuery, you should find it in this extensive list.

New Webcast: Creating Snippets in Visual Studio

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:42:45 GMT

I have a new 4 min 47 sec training webcast out over creating code snippets in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.

Creating Templates in Visual Studio

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:01:12 GMT

Creating Templates

Chad Meyers: Some Consulting Wisdom I Picked Up

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:16:11 GMT

FTA: "I did a consulting gig for a few years at a very large government institution and I picked up some wisdom about how to best serve the customer (even sometimes in spite of themselves), how to remain sane, and how to maintain your scruples while doing it all. I typed these up on Twitter awhile back and then forgot about 'em."

Some Improved LINQ Operators

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:50:56 GMT

Good explanation of how improved LINQ operators provides cleaner implement ions.

DZone PlugIn for Windows Live Writer

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:01:13 GMT

John Papa has written an excellent new plugin for Windows Live Writer that makes it super-easy to include a DZone widget in every posting you write! Want more traffic? Use this in combination with his dotNetKicks plugin, and watch your numbers climb!

.NET Database Migration Tool Roundup

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:46:17 GMT

A overview of all the available DB Migration tools available on the .NET platform

Code based ASP.NET MVC GridView

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:31:05 GMT

Maarten Balliauw shows you how to build an ASP.NET MVC html helper extension method which generates a nice gridview-like control using pure code and MVC framework.

Windows Live Writer PlugIn for DotNetKicks on CodePlex

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:31:03 GMT

Windows Live Writer PlugIn for DotNetKicks is now on CodePlex

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 3: Adopting Agile

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:46:09 GMT

The latest episode of the ALT.NET Podcast is a discussion with Owen Rogers focused on adopting agile practices.

enum to friendly string extension method

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:01:02 GMT

We use enums quite extensively in our application as they are a great for representing integral values in a strongly typed way using symbolic names. The enum names are not very friendly to the user and I recently read a some good articles which tried to solve this problem. However, I think i've found a better solution to this problem using extension methods.

Sysinternals, now easier to get than ever

Sat, 31 May 2008 20:01:07 GMT

The sysinternals team has placed all their tools on a network share... on the internet. Now you can copy and run any of their tools from the command line. Anywhere. With no installs, website googling, unzipping or anything. \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\

REST Services and Metadata Endpoints in WCF

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Exposing documentation for REST based services in WCF