Convenience Kills, or the Case Against RAD Tools(kohari.org)

submitted by ang3lfir3(660) 3 years, 9 months ago

A rather heated discussion erupted last week on Twitter and IRC concerning so-called “drag-and-drop demos” — point-and-click demonstrations of “software development” that just involve dragging controls around on a graphical designer without a lot of actual coding involved. Being entirely unable to resist joining in on debates, I had to chime in and give my two cents. read more...

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The Creators of 30 Programming Languages: pages, blogs, interviews(littletutorials.com)

submitted by danielstoner(335) 3 years, 9 months ago

Behind any programming language there is a creator or sometimes a small team. Each language has a story and a philosophy and each creator had a motivation, a problem to solve. Here is a collection of resources about these people: personal pages, blogs, biographies and interviews. read more...

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ASP.NET gets no Respect(west-wind.com)

submitted by pstatho(670) 3 years, 9 months ago

Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No! read more...

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Create apple.com-like breadcrumb using simple CSS(jankoatwarpspeed.com)

submitted by RyanFarley(585) 3 years, 9 months ago

Janko shows an extremely simple and nicely polished way to create graphical breadcrumbs like on apple.com. read more...

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Implementing a Repository and Specificaiton pattern using Linq(codeinsanity.com)

submitted by rao.ritesh(230) 3 years, 9 months ago

In my previous post I put down some thoughts on the Repository and Specification patterns and in the end said that with the introduction of Linq and the growing popularity of ORM frameworks and their support for Linq, it’s time to look back at these two patterns and see how we can leverage Linq to simplify the patterns and make them infrastructure agnostic. read more...

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12 Unit Testing Tips for Software Engineers(readwriteweb.com)

submitted by Jemm(9604) 3 years, 9 months ago

"In this post we look at a dozen unit testing tips that software engineers can apply, regardless of their programming language or environment." read more...

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Using a Parameter Attribute to set a Default Value in MVC(coderjournal.com)

submitted by zigamorph(3319) 3 years, 9 months ago

A couple days ago I came across a breaking change in ASP.NET MVC PR4 that wasn’t reported. The breaking change is that defaults from routes are no longer used as defaults for parameters in the action method, if no appropriate parameter is found in the request. So I decided to take this obvious disapointment and turn it in to something I have been thinking about for a long time, but never really had the motivation to impliment. In .NET you are allowed to add attributes to anything that can be defined via reflection, including classes, interfaces, structures, and even return types and parameters of methods. read more...

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Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 7(codethinked.com)

submitted by justin_etheredge(8539) 3 years, 9 months ago

In this post we talk about one of the best features of Ruby... duck typing. We show you what it is, and how it affects the way that you interact with objects in Ruby. read more...

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XNA, Meet WPF(jmorrill.hjtcentral.com)

submitted by Lord(3737) 3 years, 9 months ago

The new D3DImage in WPF opens up worlds for WPF. Direct3D content rendered with WPF...it doesn't get any better! The downside is it seems (correct me if I'm wrong) that Microsoft was only targeting unmanaged Direct3D. Yes there is Managed DirectX, but it seems as if MDX is no longer being maintained and it's not so obvious how to get a D3D surface pointer from the API. It really seems MDX has been left in the dust in favor for XNA, which is a very intuitive D3D wrapper. XNA further exacerbates the issue with XNA and WPF. read more...

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ASP.NET Hacks (wiki.lessthandot.com)

submitted by ca8msm(429) 3 years, 10 months ago

At LessThanDot, we've decided to release a series of articles, tips and tricks which will be known as the "Hacks" series. The first instalment was the popular SQL Server Programming Hacks and this week sees the release of the ASP.NET Hacks. These hacks have been split up into the following categories: 1 Applications 2 Caching 3 Controls 4 Database 5 Dates 6 Debugging 7 Email 8 Encryption 9 Files 10 Images 11 Javascript 12 Objects and Classes 13 Pages 14 Sessions 15 Strings 16 Validation 17 Visual Studio 18 Web We've decided to release these in the wiki so that anyone can contribute to them, so feel free to add anything else that you find useful. read more...

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