John Resig: Google Doctype
There's been a lot of interest in yesterday's release of Google Doctype. The primary focus of the release is on documentation (specifically... more »
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I learned SEO from Celebrity Jeopardy
As you can see Norm MacDonald playing the character of Burt Reynolds transforms the category in Celebrity Jeopordy!, on purpose for comedy reasons. In... more »
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Writing Goolge App Engine in Java
Explains how is it possible to write Application to Google App Engine in Java Programming Language
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MVC Storefront, Part 10: Shopping Cart Refactoring and Membership
In Part 10 I refactor the initial go at the cart, and also implement the beginning of what will be the Authorization system for the site.
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Dynamically Build LINQ Queries Using Reflection
I was recently working on a project where there was an option to export data from the database. The export function simply exported 2 hard-coded... more »
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6 Useful Visual Studio Tweaks You Need To Know
Here is a list of 6 Visual Studio tweaks you can do to make your development experience much better...
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MVC Storefront, Part 9: The Shopping Cart
In this episode I dive into implementing the Shopping Cart in a basic way so I can run a spike to make sure my pattern can push data nicely back into... more »
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The Virtue of Junk Code
Brett Schuchert wrote a fine article yesterday on the subject of refactoring, or cleaning up your code. And though I agree with most of his arguments... more »
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Spolsky's Paradox
What do you think will change in the way we hire software engineers in the next decade?
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Silverlight's Fate
While Microsoft is busy churning out the newer versions of Silverlight and we are all learning to cope with plurality and continunal changes in the... more »
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MVC Storefront, Part 7: Helpers and Routing
In this installment, I continue working on the UI as I ready the demo for the client. I also talk at length with Scott Hanselman about Routing and... more »
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Bait-and-Switch and Software Licenses
What happens when you switch licenses after your project has a large user base?
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MVC Storefront, Part 6: Catalog Completion and Initial UI
This is a long one - 20 minutes to be precise. I usually try to edit things pretty liberally, but I asked Jon Galloway to help me out with CSS and... more »
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F#: Immutability and tail recursion
I was in Amanda Laucher's F# talk yesterday and I asked about whether F# was able to tell if a function was pure or semi-pure. (A pure function is... more »
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Functional programming might be the next big shift in general purpose development paradigms.
The other day I realized a trend that may be decisive for the evolution of our development environment in general: Functional Programming! It is... more »
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Serving your ASP.NET .aspx pages with .html
Need to serve your pages with an HTML extension instead of an ASPX extension? Start here!
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Learning Python Design Patterns Through Video Lectures
The three lectures are given by Alex Martelli who works as tech lead for Google. Alex briefly covers the history and main principles of Design... more »
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Javascript will be the Next Big Language
(Javascript) will be the next big thing that will trump Ruby from it’s pedestal or at least create a viable competition as the next big dynamic... more »
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Microsoft showing they inferiority complex
The other day I was checking my hotmail account to curiously check how many spam emails have made it to my inbox. To my surprise I found out a “hidden... more »
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Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC
Edsger Dijkstra had this to say about Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code: It is practically impossible to teach good programming style... more »
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10 Gmail Tips and Time-Savers
Gmail–many of us web workers could hardly get by without it. I happen to use both Outlook and Gmail, but Gmail is increasingly the e-mail engine I... more »
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Killing the Sacred Cows of Project Management
7 cows for the killin
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I switched from Linux to Windows Server 2008
Wait, did I say that right? I thought it was supposed to be the other way around?
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F# 101 Part 8 (Mutables and Reference Cells)
Today we'll manage to look more at regular .NET integration and .NET programming. With the previous efforts, we've looked more at functional... more »
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ASP.Net MVC Framework Preview 2 - A step by step guide to create a simple Web Application
In this post you will learn how to use most of the new features in the Preview 2 version of the ASP.NET Framework, you will also get a basic... more »
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