There is More Content than Just the Front Page on DotNetKicks

beckelman.net — Are you tired of going to DotNetKicks and finding the same stories on the front page for days in a row? Trust me, there is some great content out there that never makes the front page. You just have to look a little deeper. When you do, you can help put some of that great new content in front of the masses. Even if you don’t submit stories yourself, you can still help out by giving the initial votes that push a story to the front page. read more...

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Oxite Refactor, Take 1

published 20 days, 5 hours ago, submitted by johnsheehan 20 days, 14 hours ago

blog.wekeroad.com — I mentioned yesterday on Twitter that I'm helping out the Oxite team with some refactoring and tweaking of their codebase. I got started last night and people have been asking about it a LOT, so I thought that today I'd show you initially what I'm up to. read more...

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Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips

tvidesign.co.uk — jQuery is awesome. I've been using it for about a year now and although I was impressed to begin with I'm liking it more and more the longer I use it and the more I find out about it's inner workings. I'd call myself an "intermediate" jQuery user and I thought some others out there could benefit from all the little tips, tricks and techniques I've learned over the past year. The article also ended up being a lot longer than I thought it was going to be so I'll start with a table of contents so you can skip to the bits you're interested in. read more...

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Netflix to Lay Off 50. Blames Silverlight.

money.cnn.com — In a corporate blog post today, Netflix (NFLX) said 50 of its technical specialists in its customer service group will be let go at the start of next year. The reason? The company isn’t blaming the economy, it’s blaming Microsoft’s (MSFT) Silverlight read more...

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LINQ-to-Entities: The Blackberry Storm of ORMs?

hackification.com — Opinion article on how LINQ-to-Entities currently seems to compare unfavorably to LINQ-to-SQL. read more...

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ALT.NET Online Open Meeting 10-DEC (featuring Jeremy Miller) - Chad My

submitted by zpyoung 29 days, 4 hours ago

lostechies.com — Tomorrow night Jeremy Miller will be speaking on his new StoryTeller testing framework project. read more...

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Changing Terms from Mocking Framework to Isolation Framework

devlicio.us — The other day on Twitter Roy Osherove made the statement that he was teaching a class on TDD and he was showing how to use the various Isolation Frameworks. When I read this I had to ask if he talking about Mocking frameworks when he said Isolation frameworks. And indeed he was. read more...

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Have you ever wondered why CodePlex is so slow?

published 1 month, 4 days ago, submitted by gt1329a 1 month, 4 days ago

encosia.com — Taking a look at one feature on CodePlex that is much slower than it needs to be, due to indiscriminate use of UpdatePanels and bloated ViewState, and then comparing it to similar functionality on Stack Overflow to illustrate how much more efficiently the same feature can be implemented. read more...

3 comments | category: AJAX | Views: 530