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SubSonic: Writing Decoupled, Testable Code With SubSonic 2.1 – Rob Conery The Five Most Common Mistakes of Male Freelancers – Joel Falconer Thanks Jason! Delegating Decorators – Phil Haack Phil fiddles with Delegates and Lambdas Live Geometry with Silverlight 2 – Kirill Osenkov ‘ an interactive designer for ruler-and-compass constructions – it lets you plot [...]

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I quit my job today, oh boy – Tales of an IT Director Congrats!. Great inspirational post, btw. via Twitter / Matt Hinze *** Maintainable by whom – Sergio Pereira ‘ Our task is never to just write code. They could have hired a high school intern if that’s all they wanted ‘ Me hereby [...]

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Everything You Wanted To Know About MVC and MVP But Were Afraid To Ask – Phil Haack ‘ Or, as my recent inbox tells me, you’re not afraid to ask. ‘ A Programming Job Interview Challenge #8 – A Needle in a Haystack – Shahar Y Interesting Q/a with a new interview question while extensively [...]

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How to Get Your Clients to Change – Celine Roque When thinking about your client’s behavior, it’s best to start with yourself. Have you done everything you could to make communication timely, efficient, and clear? Do Specialists Outperform Generalists on an Agile Team? – Vikas Hazrati And more: are generalists even needed in an agile [...]

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Adapting to Changes – Ben Watson ‘ Change is a fact of life. Nowhere is this more obvious in a medium where the very thing we make is completely intangible and malleable: software development ‘ Google Shortcut Keys – Awesome – Sean Feldman The Great NHibernate/Castle Giveaway – James Kovacs swag.swag.swag! ReSharper 4.0 Keyboard Shortcut [...]

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Sorting out Internationalization with Michael Kaplan – Hanselminutes Show #117 Noone knows more about the intimate details of Globalization, Internationalization, and Localization than Michael Kaplan – I never understand a word of his postings Top 16 Podcasts – Follow Steph Reasonably technology-agnostic list, there might be something new to you here How to Translate PDF [...]

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Dan and Kathleen on Kids and Computing – .NET Rocks! #350 For those of you with kids – and trust me, that’s more than a couple of you How Microsoft/Dev Div uses TFS – Chapter 9 (Transparency in Reporting) – Gregg Boer 11 Ways to Detect and Solve Internet Addiction – Joel Falconer You might [...]

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*** Great site for learning and understanding LINQ – Robert Shelton Deeplinking in Silverlight – Ruurd Boeke ‘ as computing power increases and humans become more accustomed to great applications, html as a platform does not deliver anymore ‘ A “Friday the Thirteenths” Solution – Mike Bosch Book Review: C# In Depth – Rhonda Tipton [...]

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Profiling with dotTrace – Chris Brandsma ‘ Rule #2: If you don’t measure, you don’t know ‘ A profiling tool like this can absolutely help you getting to know the bottlenecks in performance of your application What did you learn today? – Did you know true/false are C# operators? – Phil Denoncourt C# Empty Enumerator [...]

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File Compression Using the .NET GZipStream Class – Rhonda Tipton ‘ The GZipStream class is not as feature-rich as the third-party tools, but it is a convenient way to compress data ‘ Why Are Our Programs Still Represented by Flat Files? – Rick Minerich Give way to the yield keyword! – Shay Friedman Delayed execution [...]

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