Archive for January, 2010
The WebForms Rant
A lively discussion on choosing between ASP.NET WebForms and MVC.
CodePlex now supporting native Mercurial
The open-source project hosting site now offers Mercurial as an option over TFS.
Analysis of Git and Mercurial
Google’s analysis of the similarities and differences between two popular distributed source control systems.
NDepend v3 is now 100% integrated in Visual Studio
Patrick Smacchia shares [...]
Designing the Moment sets the reader on the road towards better user experiences in common scenarios on the web. This is achieved through the use of casual writing and real-world examples.
jQuery Lint
A JavaScript tool to verify correctness of scripts written with jQuery.
Whither Alt.Net?
Ian Cooper comments on the apparent inactivity of the ALT.NET movement.
Constructor over-injection anti-pattern
Jeffrey Palermo suggests that it is possible to over-use constructor injection, and suggests a way to mitigate the issue.
Constructor over-injection smell – follow up
Jeffrey follows up on his previous post.
Firefox 3.6
The [...]
Behind the scenes: writing a design book
David Airey does an interesting retrospective on writing his recent logo design book.
Process of Redesiging N.Design
Nick La talk on redesigning his other site, N.Design Studio. Impressive design ideas and artwork.
Subversion seems to be losing favor among version control users
Jeffrey Palermo comments on the apparent trend away from centralized source [...]
Reducing Code Coupling – Inversion of Control
This is the conclusion to my series on reducing code coupling. This installment follows from the previous ones, building on them by introducing the Inversion of Control pattern.
.NET Projects: Generating Documentation with Sandcastle
This is a walkthrough in automating Sandcastle to generate API documentation during an automated build process.
Set Up 2010 for a 365-Day Photo Project
An interesting idea. I may try the 52-Week variation.
How To Add a Flickr Gallery to Your WordPress Theme Without a Plugin
Nice, a simple solution.
How Dovetail uses NHibernate with StructureMap
Jeremy Miller gives detailed information on real-world usage of NHibernate.
Ten Rules for Web Startups
Interesting reading. Most of the items seem [...]
Technical Books to Read in 2010
Laying out my planned reading material for the year to boost my programming skills.
Setting Scope
WordPress 2.9 was released over a week ago, with the 2.9.1 point release coming in the near future. Already the WP devs are discussing the scope of the next major update: 3.0.
On Learning
Anne Epstein ruminates on the necessity for programmers to keep up to date on industry tools and technologies. I fully agree.
10 Things [...]
