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Introduction to Web API: Yes, It’s That Easy

© Erik Dietrich (DaedTech)

on March 15, 2013 Source: Google Reader

Asp.Net SignalR Chat Room

© Shakeel Iqbal (CodeProject Latest Articles)

This article helps you to understand the ASP.NET SignalR API and create a chat room using it. (...)

on March 14, 2013 Source: Google Reader

Glimpse 1.0.1!

© scott@OdeTocode.com (OdeToCode by K. Scott Allen)

Glimpse is the open source diagnostics platform of the web. You can use Glimpse to see what is happening inside a web application on both the server and client side. It's like Firebug but with configuration, routing, and profiling information from the server included. Nik and Anthony run the project (...)

on March 12, 2013 Source: Google Reader

Test Better

© Haacked (you've been HAACKED)

Developers take pride in speaking their mind and not shying away from touchy subjects. Yet there is one subject makes many developers uncomfortable. Testing. I’m not talking about drug testing, unit testing, or any form of automated testing. After all, while there are still some holdouts, at least (...)

on March 04, 2013 Source: Google Reader

RELEASED - Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7

© Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman's Blog)

on February 26, 2013 Source: Google Reader

Introducing Formo – Dynamic Configuration

© Chris Missal (Los Techies)

on February 21, 2013 Source: Google Reader

Introducing Durandal

© Rob Eisenberg (Devlicio.us - Just the Tasty Bits)

Today I'm very excited to officially bring to you Durandal! Durandal is a new open source JavaScript library for rich client application development. It focuses on providing an enjoyable and productive developer experience centered around simple conventions and standard patterns like MVC, MVP an (...)

on February 18, 2013 Source: Google Reader

Switch Statements are Like Ants

© Erik Dietrich (DaedTech)

on February 15, 2013 Source: Google Reader

What if we modeled every user action as the passing of a document?

© Jeffrey Palermo (Jeffrey Palermo (.com))

on February 14, 2013 Source: Google Reader

Git support for Visual Studio - Git, TFS, and VS put into Context

© Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman's Blog)

on January 30, 2013 Source: Google Reader

Fix for uncompressed JS files on IIS

© (author unknown) (.NET Slave)

Rule #1 in website optimization is to enable GZip compression on the web server. This is very easy using web.config as explained here. However, some web servers have disabled automatic compression of JavaScript files, because they are served with the content type: application/x-javascript. For the (...)

on January 14, 2013 Source: Google Reader

For truly important problems

© Seth Godin (Seth's Blog)

on January 13, 2013 Source: Google Reader

The cost of neutral

© Seth Godin (Seth's Blog)

on January 12, 2013 Source: Google Reader

Jack Covert Selects – The Slow Fix

© 800-CEO-READ (800 CEO Read)

on January 11, 2013 Source: Google Reader

Jack Covert Selects – Midnight Lunch

© 800-CEO-READ (800 CEO Read)

on January 11, 2013 Source: Google Reader

Out on a limb

© Seth Godin (Seth's Blog)

on January 05, 2013 Source: Google Reader

"Here, I made this," is difficult and frightening

© Seth Godin (Seth's Blog)

on January 02, 2013 Source: Google Reader

A Metaphor to Help You Suck at Writing Software

© Erik Dietrich (DaedTech)

on December 21, 2012 Source: Google Reader

W3C completes HTML5 definition, starts interoperability testing

© Nicole Lee (Engadget RSS Feed)

Long heralded as the darling of the open web, the standards for HTML5 haven't actually been finalized by the W3C -- it was just recently that the international consortium pledged to get it done by 2014. So it's good to hear the group just hit a significant milestone on the road to that goal by pub (...)

on December 19, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Automatically Send Starred Google Reader Articles to Pocket or Instapaper

© Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)

Bookmark and Read Later apps like Pocket, Instapaper, and Readability are awesome ways to store and catch up on the interesting articles you find online, but if you use Google Reader, saving those articles is a multi-step process. Here's an IFTTT recipe that will send articles to your favorite (...)

on December 18, 2012 Source: Google Reader

You Don’t Need A Thick Skin

© Haacked (you've been HAACKED)

I have a confession to make. I sometimes avoid your feedback on the Twitters. It’s nothing personal. I have a saved search for stuff I work on because I want to know what folks have to say. I want to know what problems they might run into or what ideas they have to improve things. Nonetheless, I so (...)

on December 17, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Another Player In the World of Free, Open Online CS Courseware

© timothy (Slashdot: Developers)

dncsky1530 writes "UNSW professor Richard Buckland, lecturer of the famous Computing 1 course on YouTube, is now running a large scale open online Computer Science course for the world. UNSW Computing 1 — PuzzleQuest and the Art of Programming starts off with microprocessors and works it way th (...)

on November 24, 2012 Source: Google Reader

How to Learn Anything

© Leo (zenhabits)

on November 21, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Twitter.Bootstrap.MVC4; the Bootstrap package for ASP.Net MVC4

© Eric Hexter (Los Techies)

on November 21, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Technical Interviews

© Christopher Bennage (Devlicio.us - Just the Tasty Bits)

I’ve been responsible for the technical evaluation portion of some developer interviews recently. I stumbled through the first few, unhappy with my aged and worn approach of asking questions, having the candidate write pseudo code on a white-board, and so. A friend challenged me: he said that the in (...)

on November 16, 2012 Source: Google Reader

How To Lead High-Performance Distributed Teams

© JD Meier (J.D. Meier's Blog)

I’ve had a unique privilege of leading high-performance distributed teams for more than ten years.   In the early days of the Microsoft patterns & practices team, one of the key driving philosophies was “leverage the best talent in the world, from around the world.” By opening up the opportunit (...)

on November 16, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Jack of all trades or specialist?

© Paul Boag (Boagworld - Web & Digital Advice)

on November 16, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Respect and the 40-hour work week

© Jimmy Bogard (Jimmy Bogard's Blog)

on November 14, 2012 Source: Google Reader

The Cost of Software Bugs

© (author unknown) ((title unknown))

Software defects and bugs cost $60 billion a year in the US. Check out this infographic to get a few other statistics on the impact of defects in your applications. (...)

on November 11, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Popcorn Maker 1.0 released – how it works

© Bobby Richter (Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog)

on November 11, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Internet Explorer 10 Brings HTML5 to Windows Phone 8

© Scott Gilbertson (Webmonkey)

on November 09, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Avoiding the false proxy trap

© Seth Godin (Seth's Blog)

on November 09, 2012 Source: Google Reader

8 Leadership Lessons from a Symphony Conductor

© Michael Hyatt (Michael Hyatt’s Intentional Leadership)

on November 06, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Mozilla Busts HTML5 Myths

© Scott Gilbertson (Webmonkey)

on November 01, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Bliki: TransMediaApplication

© (author unknown) (Martin Fowler)

on November 01, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Emmet – A Toolkit For Improving HTML & CSS Workflow

© Umut M. (WebResourcesDepot)

on November 01, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Team Foundation Service–now for everyone

© nmarun (ASP.NET Weblogs)

I heard an announcement regarding TFS being opened for all. I’ve been wanting to have a source control for my personal projects. The set up was an unbelievably simple 3 step process. Signup at http://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/ using an account name of your preference Your source control server is s (...)

on November 01, 2012 Source: Google Reader

Estimation scoping

© Jimmy Bogard (Jimmy Bogard's Blog)

on October 31, 2012 Source: Google Reader