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Review: The Productive Programmer

Grant — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:51:52 +0000

This book presents a grab bag of practices and techniques for boosting your programming productivity, regardless of language and platform.

Weekly Links #95

Grant — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:35:35 +0000

How IE8 Determines Document Mode A look at how Internet Explorer 8 handles compatibility switching, including a large flow diagram. Announcing: TinyIoC – An Easy to Use, Hassle Free, Inversion of Control Container Yet another IoC container for .NET. Sounds interesting though, will dig into it. New Offers for Visual Studio 2010 Somasegar details two deals for moving up to [...]

Weekly Links #94

Grant — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:33:48 +0000

First Impressions of Custom Post Type Impressive how extensible and robust WordPress has become. Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications Describes the differences between web sites and applications, and outlines the process of building the latter. Coding: Effect sketches and the Mikado method Mark Needham shows an interesting way to analyze the dependencies between classes and their members. The Seven [...]

Weekly Links #93

Grant — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:07:31 +0000

When It Comes To IOC Containers, We Seem To Be Pretty Loyal Reflector Pro has now been released! Red-Gate’s first release of the super Reflector tool. Also the first version with a paid option. Our "Extension Properties" Story Jeremy Miller details the process of adding extension properties, akin to extension methods, to classes that cannot be directly changed. A [...]

Weekly Links #92

Grant — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:14:07 +0000

VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate Scott Guthrie blogs about a final pre-release of the upcoming Visual Studio 2010. Why Git is Better than X A feature comparison between Git and other source control systems. Biased towards Git, of course, but interesting nonetheless. Master the Art of Photographic Composition Good advice about setting up your shot, since the composition [...]

Weekly Links #91

Grant — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:52:32 +0000

Are We Continuously Improving Or Just Continuously Changing? Thoughts on the need to continually improve your work. Else, how do you get any better at it? Warmup – Getting Started Nice, a tool that can reduce the time involved in starting a new solution. Implementing Domain Queries Suggests a way to create and retrieve persisted domain data. I can use [...]

Weekly Links #90

Grant — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:47:44 +0000

The WebForms Rant A lively discussion on choosing between ASP.NET WebForms and MVC. CodePlex now supporting native Mercurial The open-source project hosting site now offers Mercurial as an option over TFS. Analysis of Git and Mercurial Google’s analysis of the similarities and differences between two popular distributed source control systems. NDepend v3 is now 100% integrated in Visual Studio Patrick Smacchia shares [...]

Review: Designing the Moment

Grant — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:59:09 +0000

Designing the Moment sets the reader on the road towards better user experiences in common scenarios on the web. This is achieved through the use of casual writing and real-world examples.

Weekly Link #89

Grant — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:58:58 +0000

jQuery Lint A JavaScript tool to verify correctness of scripts written with jQuery. Whither Alt.Net? Ian Cooper comments on the apparent inactivity of the ALT.NET movement. Constructor over-injection anti-pattern Jeffrey Palermo suggests that it is possible to over-use constructor injection, and suggests a way to mitigate the issue. Constructor over-injection smell – follow up Jeffrey follows up on his previous post. Firefox 3.6 The [...]

Weekly Links #88

Grant — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:25:51 +0000

Behind the scenes: writing a design book David Airey does an interesting retrospective on writing his recent logo design book. Process of Redesiging N.Design Nick La talk on redesigning his other site, N.Design Studio. Impressive design ideas and artwork. Subversion seems to be losing favor among version control users Jeffrey Palermo comments on the apparent trend away from centralized source [...]