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When the Going Gets Tough or How to Improve

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:31:02 GMT

How to improve yourself as a developer.

Professional Programming and who's a pundit

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:46:05 GMT

Hanselman sums it up as well as I've seen itdone.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:16:07 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."

Why I'm a better software developer than you

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:46:03 GMT

What makes one developer better than another? Shouldn't we all be performing at the same level? Of course not, we're not sewing buttons on an assembly line. We're using every bit of our intelligence to create something that we can only being to understand.

Developer Day Scotland

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:28:12 GMT

Developer Day in Glasgow on the 10th of May at the Caledonian University

Scotland ALT.NET user Group

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:49:47 GMT

A Scottish group dedicated to spreading the word on alternative practices than those prescribed by Microsoft in

VisualSVN 1.4 Released

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

The best Visual Studio add-in for working with Subversion has released an update. A couple new features and a lot of bug fixes.

Do You Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader?

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Ask any up and coming developer what they would like to do in the next year or so and you'll invariably hear, "I'd like to become a Development Team Leader". Hopefully most will have actually considered the change of role and be looking for new challenges and ways to contribute more to their chosen profession. However, for some this is an automatic response to a question that is particularly difficult to answer in an industry with no clear career path. For others it's simply a way to move up the pay scale.

Upcoming Changes In Routing

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

Phil Haacked details the changes (some of them breaking) to Routing in ASP.NET MVC.

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, People

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:46:13 GMT

A brief discussion of the Rob Conery TDD backlash, and what it says about open-source on .NET, and the community at large.

Functional Programming - Is it worth your time?

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:13:36 GMT

Functional Programming is probably simpler than you think. It's based on the idea that there is often very little distinction between programs an data. This post explores the simple techniques that gives functional programming so much power. Examples are in C#.

Grouping Linq Aggregates in C#

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:46:03 GMT

A quick primer on Linq Grouping and Aggregates within Groups.

Using Spring.NET and NHibernate with ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

getting NHibernate lazy loading to work in symbiosis with Spring.NET dependency injection for controllers

ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 2 : Rob Conery

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:46:02 GMT

The second in a series of screencasts documenting the building of an eCommerce storefront using ASP.NET MVC.

ASP.NET MVC: Introducing The MVC Storefront Series : Rob Conery

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:16:19 GMT

The first in a series of screencasts documenting the building of an eCommerce storefront using ASP.NET MVC.

Heavyweight tests == lots of future pain

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:16:02 GMT

The danger of doing too much in your tests

How to Branch Properly

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Good discussion of source code branching specifically with Subversion.

Setting up authentication in asp.net MVC

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Step by step guide on setting up a simple forms authentication scenario in asp.net MVC.

Programming Is All About Passion

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Passion! Passion! Passion!

Page Patterns for ASP.NET - Speed up your development time

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:51:19 GMT

A simple way for beginners to start writing ASP.NET pages quickly.

.NET structs

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:09:56 GMT

Some interesting insight into structs in .NET

Learn The Current State Of The Platform Before Deciding On Its Future

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:09:48 GMT

We, the .NET development community, must learn the current state of our platform before we can move it forward. THis is a continuation of the "What is wrong with the ASP.NET community?" discussion.

Real Ultimate Power: Dependency Injection With Ninject

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:01:09 GMT

Using Ninject for Dependency Injection / IoC

The ASP.NET community's only real problem is education

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:46:02 GMT

After reading this post from Dan Hounshell, I'm drawn to more questions about "what's wrong with the ASP.NET community," and I'm still convinced that people are asking the wrong questions.

Kigg - Upgraded to MIX08 ASP.NET MVC Release

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:46:03 GMT

Kigg upgraded and few thoughts on ASP.NET MVC