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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 points, connect them with lines, [...]

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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 promotes this to Quote-Of-The-Day. What [...]

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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 team…
Better Terrain Representation [...]

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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 Cheatsheet – Derik Whittaker
Required printout [...]

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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 & Word [...]

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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 laugh your addication away, [...]

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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
Custom Visual Studio Visualizer – [...]

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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 – Tim M
code [...]

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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 and “yield return” – [...]

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