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Risk and Software Development's Conceptual Phases

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:00:34 GMT

Risk is a major issue in software development. A software project's intellectual phases help to reveal why.

DebuggerStepThroughAttribute

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:27:26 GMT

love to check out somebody else his or her code. I always learn something from it. Just a couple of days ago I had an example from Scott Allen about WWF and ASP.Net. In his code example I found a class with different small data checks. Each static method was decorated with the ´DebuggerStepThroughAttribute´.

6 Tips For Making Website Registration User-Friendly

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:28:18 GMT

Registering on a website presents a different challenge at every single domain. Here's a list of recommendations for website developers on what you should have in mind for your users during registration. This list focuses on making things easier for the user to use, not for the developer to build.

Adding controls to ASP.NET page at runtime

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:44:19 GMT

We add control dynamically, attach event handler to it's event and nothing happened. Solution is also simple. We have to recreate controls on load stage of page lifecycle. After it's done, each control can handle his postback data, retrieve saved viewstate, raise events etc.

Do you know which one is the first...?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:10:45 GMT

Do you know which one is the, First OOP Language, First High Level Programming Language,First Programmer, Very first Website...

The private access modifier can do that?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:06:57 GMT

If you look up accessibility levels on the MSDN web site, it will tell you that the accessibility of the private access modifier is limited to the containing type. I ran into an instance that showed me the direct meaning of this statement.

Deploying an ASP.Net MVC web application to IIS7

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:22:57 GMT

The next installment in my exciting series where I capture what I know about deploying Dovetail Mobile Agent which could be boiled down to How To Be a Web Server Administrator in the year 2008. Moving from IIS6 this time we take a look at getting an ASP.Net MVC application deployed to IIS7. Thankfully this is pretty easy.

Pair Programming and Cross-training

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:21:57 GMT

One of pair programming's many benefits is that it helps cross-train the development team.

Start menu context annoyances

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Dave discusses some options when it comes to a context menu add-on used for finding out what files have a lock on them by team members, etc.

Doing Planning the Agile way

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:18:52 GMT

An introduction to planning and estimating a project using Agile

Elegant Code pt 2 of 2

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:31:11 GMT

The second installment of my guide to basic code elegance.

Clean-Up JavaScript sources Using JSLint from within Visual Studio IDE

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:33:22 GMT

Jason Diamond shows how to integrate JSLint (http://www.jslint.com/ by Douglas Crockford) into Visual Studio so that one can interactively clean-up JavaScript sources of common pitfalls without ever leaving the IDE.

Search, Ask and only then Code

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:46:00 GMT

Writing software is expensive; it requires time and mental effort. Writing software can be nasty as well; the code written more often than not contain bugs, hideous bugs. Fixing these bugs are difficult and expensive. Worse still, the bugs will only surface when you are no longer actively working on that portion of code.

Top 7 Tip for Optimizing CSS

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:10:03 GMT

It is very easy for CSS to grow to a huge size if you are not following proper guidelines to optimize this. By doing so you are not only making you css cleaner but also decreasing the response size of file. Here are some tip for optimizing the CSS.

ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:31:04 GMT

You can setup continuous integration and automated deployment for your web application using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy. I will show you how you can automatically build the entire solution, email build report to developers and QA, deploy latest code in IIS all using CruiseControl.NET every N minutes.

How to Install Your Own Subversion Version Control Server Using Visual

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:46:02 GMT

This article will have 2 sections One will discuss the SVN Server installation and configuration and the second part will be about how to use the SVN client.

IPv6 Stack

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:02:59 GMT

The IPv6 protocol for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista supports Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards for IPv6 protocol stack functionality, including the following:

.NET Objects Tip - Object Identity vs. Object Equality - Virtual Metho

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:07:17 GMT

Here is an interesting description of the differences between Object Identity and Object Equality pertaining to objects in the .NET Framework.

Kirill Osenkov : More comments on generics

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:52:07 GMT

Here are some more unsorted thoughts on generics to continue this post (which has some interesting comments too).

How do I find a stored procedure containing <text>?

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:31:50 GMT

I see this question at least once a week. Usually, people are trying to find all the stored procedures that reference a specific object. While I think that the best place to do this kind of searching is through your source control tool (you do keep your database objects in source control, don't you?), there are certainly some ways to do this in the database.

Simplifying prevention of undesired Css/Js file caching

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:26:34 GMT

Nice automated method of versioning CSS and JS files.

Resizing a VHD and a Volume

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:50:57 GMT

Learn how to resize a Virtual PC VHD File so that the C drive has more space. VERY VERY Helpful when you run out of room on that VPC!

JavaScript singleton with private members!

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:24:06 GMT

How to create a singleton object in JavaScript which can have truly private variables and private methods which are only accessible to other private and public members of the singleton.

Visual Basic 2008 Core Elements - Parameter Passing

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:46:45 GMT

When an object's methods or an assembly's procedures and methods are called, it's often appropriate to provide input for the data to be operated on by the code. The values are referred to as parameters, and any object can be passed as a parameter to a Function or Sub.

Shared Hosting & The Bleeding Edge

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:02:47 GMT

A summary of my experience getting a site up and running in a shared hosting environment using a number of bleeding-edge, open source technologies.