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Introducing Wijmo, a feature-packed jQueryUI based widget library(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 2 months, 28 days ago

A introduction to Wijmo, a jQuery UI based component library, and the rational behind the decision of adopting it vs other component libraries read more...

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The importance of performance testing in a Windows Phone 7 application(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 1 year, 1 month ago

Simone Chiaretta highlights the importance of performance testing your applications on the Windows Phone 7 platform (where devices are not as powerful as desktops and server), illustrating with an example of an issue which caused him performance problems. read more...

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Lucene.Net needs your help (or it will die)(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 1 year, 6 months ago

The Apache Foundation wants to kill Lucene.net. If you use it please chime in and help. This post explains a bit more in detail why this is happening read more...

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Hand picked sessions from PDC2010(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 1 year, 6 months ago

If you are not living under a rock, probably you know that yesterday (October 28th) the PDC2010 started. If you missed the keynote of PCD 2010 here is a brief description of what I found interesting, the links to sessions I consider to be interesting (at least for me) and some considerations about SL vs HTML5. read more...

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Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 2 years, 4 months ago

Simone looks at the last year's stats and lists the most popular posts we wrote in 2009. And also writes his overall top 10 read more...

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Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC(blog.wekeroad.com)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 2 years, 4 months ago

Rob Conery discusses again why ASP.NET MVC matters now, and how (and why) the concept of productivity changed over the years. read more...

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How to create a DropDownList with ASP.NET MVC(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 2 years, 9 months ago

The DropDownList html helper differs a bit from the standard Html helper methods, and, not surprisingly, the way it works is one of the questions I get asked the most. So in this post Simone dissects this helper method, and shows you how to use it. read more...

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Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Finally Available(nayyeri.net)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 2 years, 9 months ago

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 read more...

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LINQ is not LINQ To SQL(codethinked.com)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 2 years, 10 months ago

Justin writes about a frequent misconception about LINQ: LINQ is not just LINQ to SQL, but it's a general purpose query language read more...

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Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 2 years, 11 months ago

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) read more...

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Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 3 years ago

Take the survey to see how the adoption of Ajax among .NET developers changed since the survey held in 2007 read more...

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IRouteHandler in ASP.NET MVC(nayyeri.net)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 3 years ago

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

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How to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial perf: don’t run in debug mode(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 3 years, 1 month ago

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. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC: Hidden Performance Problem with HtmlHelper.RenderPartial (blog.dynatrace.com)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 3 years, 1 month ago

There was a lot of talks lately on a possible performance pitfall of ASP.NET MVC: HtmlHelper.RenderPartial This post shows how and why it happens, and how to avoid it read more...

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Keep Your IQueryable In Check(codethinked.com)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 3 years, 1 month ago

There is a good chance that you have seen Oren’s recent “Repository Is The New Singleton” post. I wanted to have a quick discussion of his approach, and discuss why I don’t 100% agree with it. Let me first say that I don’t have a problem with the repository pattern. I do have some issue with the way that it is implemented sometimes, but overall I think it provides a good layer in which to encapsulate the queries of your application. read more...

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Ditching the Micro-Optimization Fetish(codethinked.com)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 3 years, 1 month ago

Seems like today is the day for performance optimization talks: in String.Empty, in calls to ActionLinks, in high-performance IoC containers. But people sometimes miss the point that these are micro-optimizations: thanks God Justin tries to bring a bit of sanity in this geeky world of micro-optimization read more...

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