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Weekly Links #24

The New 2.7 Dashboard
An overview of the revamped dashboard for WordPress 2.7. No pictures, but plenty of description.
Cellar Heat: A Free WordPress Theme
Nice looking theme, with light and dark versions.
Introducing Carrington
Alex King unveils a new theme framework for WordPress.
Innovative (and Experimental) CSS Examples and Techniques

October 26 2008

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Going Wide With The Sigma 10-20 Lens

Earlier this year, not too long after my previous lens acquisition, I started shopping for a wide angle lens. I’ll give an overview of the lens that made the cut.

October 26 2008

Photography

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.NET Projects: Code Coverage with NCover

Introduction

This series has carried on for a while now. In the process, I’ve covered setting up and organizing a Subversion repository for code versioning, using NAnt for automated builds, FxCop and NDepend for code analysis and metrics, and NUnit for unit tests. The preceding sections are linked below for reference.

source control - Subversion - setup, [...]

October 23 2008

Programming, Software

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Weekly Links #23

Tinyject – IoC in an Evening
Wow. Something so seemingly complex done in just a few hours.

Pricing Tables: Examples And Best Practices
Another super listing from Smashing Magazine. Compares various price grids from around the web. Highlights amount of content included, relative location of content and prices, colours, and more. Great for inspiration.

The Visual Design of 2.7
Shots [...]

October 19 2008

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Working with an existing code base of any real size can be a difficult task, due to poor code, little or no documentation, haphazard class structure, and so on. This book presents principles and practices to help one reshape the existing code base into one that is much easier to work with.

October 14 2008

Books

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Learning with DimeCasts

Time to mention a useful resource that has been around for a while, and helps learning advanced programming concepts and techniques. That resource is DimeCasts.net.

October 12 2008

Programming

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Weekly Links #22

A List Apart: Ten Years
A List Apart has been the foremost web magazine for a long time - a whole ten years in fact! Jeffrey Zeldman reflects on the history of the site.

A List Apart: Understanding Progressive Enhancement (1 of n)
Aaron Gustafson goes into the principles of progressive enhancement for the web. This is the [...]

October 12 2008

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Weekly Links #21

IServiceLocator a step toward IoC container / Service locator detente
A new library is on Codeplex, offering a standard interface that can be implemented by the various Inversion of Control libraries. This would ensure that any code using the interface would remain blissfully ignorant of which IoC container was being used. This was proposed by Jeremy [...]

October 5 2008

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