Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - August 20-24, 2009
Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - August 20-24, 2009
Web Development
- ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) 1.1 Released
- Building a Simple Cache Manager - Gil Fink on .Net
- Write Firefox Extensions in Visual Studio with Web Site Projects
- ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Strongly Typed UI Helper Performance
- REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK - Maarten Balliauw
- 10 Vital Lessons for Web Start-Ups
Web Design
- The Web Design Process Start to Finish
- 25 Creative Website Footers
- 10 Interface Rockstars You Should Know About
- A Crash-Course in Advanced CSS3 Effects
- Essential Tips for Designing an Effective Homepage
- Building Web Pages With HTML 5
- Smart Advertising – 30+ Bizarre and Creative Ads
- Letterpress Effect with CSS
- 50 Creative Advertisement Examples
- How to Make a Mega Drop-Down Menu
- Elegant ScrollPanes with jQuery and CSS3
- 22 Photoshop Web Design Interface Tutorial Sites
- Automatically generate table of contents using jQuery
- 6 Essential tools to check your website Usability
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Comparision between Silverlight vs. Flash
- Silverlight misconceptions, bad reviews, bad comparisons
- How To Wrap Text in a Silverlight 3 ComboBox
- Additional physics based behaviors for Blend and Silverlight
- An out-of-browser install pattern for Silverlight
- Creating a Silverlight DataContext Proxy to Simplify Data Binding in Nested Controls
- Silverlight and RIA Services – Part II
- Switching themes based on the ambient light?
Database & Related Technologies
- NHibernate vs Entity Framework: a performance test
- Tips when working with SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services)
- Nikhil Kothari’s Weblog : BLinq – Linq to Bing Search APIs
- SQL SERVER – Measure CPU Pressure – CPU Business
- NHibernate Perf Tricks - Ayende Rahien
- Languages in the 2nd Edition of Programming Entity Framework
Web Service & Related Technologies
- Windows Communication Foundation extensibility to the max
- A Developer's Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit
- WCF Extensibility part 2: The big picture
- WCF Extensibility part 3: Formatting operations
Testing
- How to unit-test asynchronous operations?
- ASP.NET MVC, TDD and Fluent Validation
- Test Your Website in Different Screen Resolutions - Amit Agarwal
Architecture
- Improved MEF + Unity Integration Layer
- Queueing Theory In Action, plus, frogs - Eric Lippert
- Some useful DateTime extensions - Mark Blomsma
- Coding: Unused code - Mark Needham
- Simpler Transactions
- It should be easy to build *good* software - Jimmy Nilsson
- Adopting Agile… the Video Podcast - Mike Cottmeyer
- Protect Your Site Reputation: Avoid these Unethical SEO Tactics – FreelanceSwitch
- Passing data between layers using Generic list collection
- Avoiding The Perils Of Demo Driven Development
- The first rule of exception handling: do not do exception handling
- Code Rush: when making software was fun
- The Only Truly Failed Project
Others
- Better Projects: A manager’s checklist
- Expand Your Development Skills With Creative Tech Projects
- The future is here: Video Playing Ad in a Print Magazine
- I Love Reviews
- 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know- Adrian
- The “dream book” for C# and .NET – Jon Skeet: Coding Blog
- Ideas are a work of art