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An article by Steve Yegge who I actually didn't know until he was included in a question session with some of the big names in the software industry a while back. A very good writer, anyway the article: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile...
Watch this and be blown away as well: http://www.wekeroad.com/actionpackintro.html A DAL which creates classes for Stored procedures, tables etc. And all that is needed to set it up is a * in a file. Home of this DAL layer: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki...
Discusses common errors about: Caching and forms authentication View state and session state Profile property serialization Thread pool saturation Impersonation and profiling Keep Sites Running Smoothly By Avoiding These 10 Common ASP.NET Pitfalls
2 Articles about Django from 2 different people: Django: first impressions - overview with links Django: first impressions - technical overview The first one covers a lot of ground through it's links and is a pretty good starting point for Django. The...
I've known for some time now that it's possible to use Ado.Net to read from Excel files, I didn't know it was also possible to write to them. At least I have found a workaround by using SQL server and registering Excel files as an external resource. Reading...
Ok, last one before getting back to some serious posts :) http://www.subservientprogrammer.com/main.aspx This one features a programmer :) So I should be wel underway to serious postings once again.
When your on Windows xp Home Edition you can't easily host websites with IIS. There are some alternatives the most well known is the cassini webserver, this has been enhanced a bit by various party's a good example of this is: xNetserver which is a VB...
One of the big things in stopping people from adapting Ruby on Rails is it's lack of a good editor. Now it seems that this is a thing of the past. Some people have made it possible to make Dreamweaver mx 2004 into a good Ruby on Rails editor. The howto...
Today is another fine day to read up on some database knowledge: A wikipedia article examining differences between the big databases. and an article about the different sql dialects
Interesting development going on currently surrounding MySql every ones favorite sql 92 / ACID incompliant database. MySql AB has recently transfered the license of MySql from LPGL to PGL. For those not so well informed in what the difference is: "using...
I saw a good definition of Web 2.0 today through Curt Hibbs blog, from O'Reilly: Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering...
Usually Joelonsoftware.com produces some interesting points of conversation around the blogospere. His latest posting is a really good (IMHO) post about setting priorities in a project. One of the good things in having a time based schedule and not a...
This is a great way to add search to a website, and it's so simple that you will probably love it. The code needed: string search = string .Format( "http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=site%3yoursitehere.com+{0}&format=rss" , HttpUtility...
For people who don't know it Linspire is a commercial linux distribution. Which is designed to look as much like windows like possible, it also includes some licensed software from third party's which usually isn't included with free linux distro's. However...
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