José Silva's daily stream

Getting Gmail to handle all mailto: links with registerProtocolHandler http://t.co/34Dm98DE

RT @DamianEdwards: SignalR 0.4 released: http://t.co/Gnq6C4kM

RT @unclebobmartin: Employer beware! http://t.co/cDIQjeU7

This Developer's Life : 2.0.7 Dinosaurs http://t.co/AGEa80w9

On Infinite Scalability http://t.co/qX0bOLIz

The Myth Of “Infinite Scalability” http://t.co/Jqqqu7Mp

Why my CI server gives me a false sense of security http://t.co/uyKzX5qf

Initializr: With Great Templates Comes Great Responsivity! http://t.co/7UGgTTFu

Functionality only has a real value when a user can easily get to it and use it -- David Platt

David Plat on Why Software Sucks http://t.co/OUV1eipw

Did you know that .NET already had an IoC container? http://t.co/ZwyoGeIF

RT @migueldeicaza: First commercial XNA game on Linux, using MonoGame: http://t.co/CllWqAWg (also Mac and Windows)

VMware Cloud Foundry PaaS adds support for .NET http://t.co/doOXTkcB

Microsoft Is Nuking Internet Explorer 6 With Worldwide Automatic Upgrade [Microsoft] http://t.co/BhYby3EA

The new HP logo (awesome): http://t.co/GvSLwWzw

http://t.co/hjx3AiPy MVC 4 Developer Preview: What’s New http://t.co/vT7ZduDs

Silverlight 5 Available for Download Today http://t.co/SpLi5fLI

Introducing CSSCop - FxCop for stylesheets http://t.co/OFv2kbYl

Using SignalR to broadcast a slide deck http://t.co/Qi5MOuCH

The Trons robot band - Time's Up http://t.co/uDQs0MYP

Ladies and gentleman, please welcome the Trons - the self playing robot band! http://t.co/rio4EGxF

Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows http://t.co/w64SFMmM

JsBin: online javascript playground http://t.co/4ijDplVR

RT @mfeathers: If you are a programmer, use this to update your lexicon: http://t.co/mFIFyAKO

RT @hackerboss: The life of a software engineer: http://t.co/NdrBIlC7

Using an icon font as a web font – introducing Fico http://t.co/6Nnod5Rr

RT @ayende: Just blogged: When should you use NHibernate? http://t.co/hZqD4Zyc

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. -- Peter F. Drucker

Non-functional Architectural Woes http://t.co/ZXCjOWnI

The required infrastructure frees you from infrastructure decisions http://t.co/0WdXwBZc

RT @boagworld: With Adobe backtracking on Flash, its time we did too - http://t.co/YC4PVisb

Why am I always on time for my dentist appointment when I always have to wait more than half an hour? Optimism? Masoquism? sigh

The delivery mechanism is an annoying detail http://t.co/IZjsGp99

Isn't it illegal when a supplier asks for a COPY of your credit card and a COPY of your ID by email... #ridiculous

@musicstore_de Please, please allow me to complete my order... #1504579 - VKA2603947

Microsoft's Bing app is written in HTML5 and will be essentially the same across all native clients and the web. http://t.co/ljDvPKK9

Keep your code simple! http://t.co/78w9Q5If

Asana, Free Project Management and Collaboration Tool for People with Multiple Projects http://t.co/4jyH9IrD

Optimize ASP.NET presentation

At //build and today at VS Live I gave a talk about performance optimizing ASP.NET web applications using bundling, minification and other cool tricks. See the video presentation The Visual Studio 2010 extension I used were: Web Essentials Image Optimizer Web Standards Update The demo website can no (...)

The Dangers of Implementing Recurring Background Tasks In http://t.co/hjx3AiPy http://t.co/LrnjScdw

Romaria

Microsoft to Improve Support for Hadoop

The company will work on Hadoop distributions for Azure and Windows Server. (...)

Architectural Tragedy of the Commons http://t.co/FcEVyJ3Q

Architectural Tragedy of the Commons

From Wikipedia: The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource, even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long-term inte (...)

RT @hotdogsladies: The technologies you choose to use say a lot about you. But raging about the technologies others choose to use says ...

Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript

RT @Woork: Interesting reading: Wrapping Your Head Around Canvas: Part 1 http://t.co/W210oVVa > RT @mlane

Peerbind – A JS API For Interconnected Websites

Steve Jobs

RT @TechCrunch: Alien Dalvik 2.0 Launches, Adds Support For Running Android Apps on iPad http://t.co/qJRTe2MA by @sarahintampa

Alien Dalvik 2.0 Launches, Adds Support For Running Android Apps on iPad

RT @JamesKovacs: Dear Visual Studio, When I hit F5 and there is a compile error, why would I want to run the last good build, which does ...

@RoyOsherove Well... He didn't see that one comming :)

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. -- Eric Hoffer

Treat people as you would like to be treated. Karma's only a bitch if you are.

HTML5 Whiteboard Magnets http://t.co/Sh2OCPQa. Thanks @cameronmoll

RT @Hagablog: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right” — Steve Jobs. The world will miss you

3 lines of code and Redis is up and running. I like it. Simple. As it should be :)

FACEBOOK & YOU

Delicious Bookmarking Relaunches Sans Yahoo

HTML5 Video Player | VideoJS

Essential JavaScript Namespacing Patterns

In this post, I'll be discussing both intermediate and advanced patterns and approaches for namespacing in JavaScript. We're going to begin with the latter as I believe many of my readers have some prior experience in this area. If however you're new to namespacing with the language and (...)

SSMS Tools Pack 2.0 is out! With huge productivity booster features that will blow your mind and ease your job even more.

What better way to end the summer and start those productive autumn days ahead than with a fresh new version of the SSMS Tools Pack. This is a big release with two new features that are huge productivity boosters. First new feature are Tab Sessions. Every SQL tab you open is saved every N (default 2 (...)

Introducing App Sites

jQuery Tops Google Trends

Microsoft Excises Flash And Plugins From Metro Internet Explorer In Windows 8

ASP.NET MVC 4 Enhancements to Default Project Templates

The ASP.NET MVC 4 provides an additional project teamplate for Mobile Web Application. The new Project dialog is shown below The project templates that are used to create new ASP.NET MVC 4 projects have been updated and provide a nice and modern looking user interface. The home page using the new p (...)

If you don’t have pet projects, I don’t think I want you

I am busy hiring people now, and it got me thinking a lot about the sort of things that I want from my developers. In particular, I was inundated in CVs, and I used the following standard reply to help me narrow things down. Thank you for your CV. Do you have any projects that you wrote that I can r (...)

Asynchronous scalable web applications with real-time persistent long-running connections with SignalR

I've been spending some time exploring asynchrony and scale recently. You may have seen my post about my explorations with node.js and iisnode running node on Windows. Every application has different requirements such that rules to "make it scale" don't work for every kind of applicati (...)

Amazon Web Services Debuts ElastiCache

New caching service will improve performance for cloud applications. (...)

The Technical Friend's Essential Maintenance Checklist for Non-Technical Friend's Windows Computer

I visited a friend today and noticed their computer. Of course I did, that's what we do. It was, as are all non-technical computer friends' computers, a 3 year old gray Dell mini tower with a 17" flat screen. In fact, these are the ONLY computers that non-technical computer friends own, yo (...)

Introducing ORM Profiler. Beta-testers wanted!

The past few months, I've spent developing (together with Walaa Atef) a general ORM / Data-access profiler for .NET, simply called ORM Profiler. (How's that for a pronounceable name, eh? ;)) As we're now feature complete and about to start the beta-cycle, we're looking for beta-testers. To help you (...)

NServiceBus and RavenDB – better together!

ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap

It only feels like yesterday that we shipped ASP.NET MVC 3 followed by a release of updated Visual Studio tooling for ASP.NET MVC 3. But we’re not ones to sit on our hands for long and are busy at work on ASP.NET MVC 4. In fact, almost immediately after shipping ASP.NET MVC 3, we started working thr (...)

Common Design Patterns Resources

Last night I gave a presentation at the Cleveland .NET SIG on Common Design Patterns. The turnout was great, so much so that the group ran out of pizza and chairs, so thanks to everyone for taking the time to come out! Thankfully the A/C held up pretty well (in years’ past, it’s been an issue there) (...)