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Free book - Jit N' Run - Best of SimpleTalk - ASP.Net

c1sbc — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:58:13 GMT

A very nice book, courtesy of RedGate (the tools people):

'Jit N' Run - The Best of SimpleTalk - ASP.Net**

Download it here...

**15 articles by esteemed .NET community authors, covering different areas of ASP.NET development, including ASP.NET master pages, AJAX extensions and Silverlight

Visual Studio 2005 Installation FUBAR that 'The Daily WTF' missed

c1sbc — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:21:15 GMT

Perhaps it missed it because this VS2K5 installation FUBAR qualifies for the Annual WTF - missing VS2K5 Website templates. Read the discussion thread here ... (ironically, what worked for me is picking the second Visual C# item from the drop-down box under 'New Website')..

An ongoing battle in the world of SOA - ESB vs Fabric

c1sbc — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:20:00 GMT

There is an ongoing battle in the world of SOA - it primarily hovers around the competing architectures of ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) and SOA Fabric. LooselyCoupled follows the battle with some insightful posts and on the other side Dave Chappell debunks some of the myths pertaining to ESB. Dave also explains Microsoft's position on ESB.

There is a showdown *debate coming soon and this should be a very interesting battle.

*Theme: "The Great Debate: ESBs, Fabrics, or Something Else?" - Wednesday, May 4, 2005 10:00 PT / 13:00 ET

Running ASP.NET and SharePoint together

c1sbc — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:55:00 GMT

For the past several months, my attempts in configuring ASP.NET and SharePoint to work together has been tricky at best. A recent KB article has been most useful but a tool to manage the configuration could be better - perhaps a feature added to the SharePoint Configuration Analyzer. A simpler configuration tool would also help small IT shops that are not technically prone.

MSDN Webcast: DotNetNuke and ASP.NETv2

c1sbc — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:09:00 GMT

MSDN has a 3-part webcast planned in April for DotNetNuke and ASP.NETv2! We (the Connecticut .NET Developers Group) use DNN for our website and also added a Community Server recently.

BlogMap works!

c1sbc — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:18:00 GMT

Chandu Thota's BlogMap at work -

(only off by 2 miles)
I copied the resulting map image file. I didn't want to load his server everytime someone accesses my blog posting.
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80/20 Rule (aka Pareto Principle) - recommended book

c1sbc — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:42:00 GMT

In these blog postings, I have seen several references to the 80/20 Rule (aka Pareto Principle but which is actually a misnomer). I bought this book at a used bookstore and got a lot out of it for less than ten bucks! It's a general, very-readable introduction to the 80/20 Principle and how it can be used in various situations (including business).

80/20 Principle

WSE FAQ site

c1sbc — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:25:00 GMT

I got this via Sam's blog - WSE FAQ site. Timely and instructive.

Thirty best practices for integrating Web services

c1sbc — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:30:00 GMT

Chapter 13 of Thomas Erl's book on Service-Oriented Architecture is about integrating web services. Read it here [PerfectXML site].

Collaboration Design Patterns within Groove and SharePoint

c1sbc — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:58:00 GMT

I work with Groove and SharePoint and after reading Keith Pleas' posting on 'Collaboration Design Patterns' it has conjured up a lot of good ideas. Both Groove and SharePoint are extendable with Groove tools (using the GDK/GTK) and WebParts (& also web service calls via CAML & lists). I find that "collaboration" is really an amalgamation of several patterns. As a developer it will certainly help decomposing the various patterns and seeing the 'sum of the (pattern) parts'.

Groove's peer-to-peer architecture is inherently different than SharePoint's webserver-centric one but integrating both together (in a Groove Mobile WorkSpace) brings interesting set of results (patterns). Roles within a collaborative space vary - Groove has the 'Manager', 'Participant' & 'Guest' roles and SharePoint has several more ('Author', etc). Roles would determine which particular set of collaborative patterns are invoked. Within a Groove Mobile WorkSpace (that integrates with SharePoint), it is the 'Manager' that synchronizes the Groove space with SharePoint contents (and vice-versa). In addition to Fowler's text, I think I'll have to dig up some of my old textbooks in distributed algorithms (Tel's DA in particular). Something worth looking into..

Whidbey templates removed

c1sbc — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:53:00 GMT

I was looking forward to trying out the Intranet Templates (see MSDN June 04 issue). Apparently, the Templates were removed from the current release of VS2K5 (see ASP.Net forums). Bummer.. I'll have to wait for the beta..

Whidbey relish

c1sbc — Sat, 22 May 2004 12:43:00 GMT

I am finally enjoying 'Whidbey' and see it as a *major* development in the .NET evolution. Wally has an interesting post on “getting” Master Pages, something that I am encountering now. Homer, Sussman & Howard's book (see above) has been of tremendous help and comes highly recommended (check out the sample chapter that also includes 'Master Pages').

Regular Expressions in ASP.NET

c1sbc — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:41:00 GMT

There is a terrific introductory article about Regular Expressions at the MSDN ASP.NET Dev Center. Royo's 'The Regulator' gets a mention in it.

SharePoint Indexing Basics

c1sbc — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:14:00 GMT

Very informative article on indexing with SharePoint at Thom Robbins' site.

Something brewing at ShadowFax land

c1sbc — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 01:38:00 GMT

I think Ron Jacobs (Microsoft PM) must have the old whip out - I see a lot of activity at ShadowFax land. I received three emails in a day alone and I also see quite a few recent releases. The Virtual TAP is something worth pursuing for projects that don't have much stakeholder equity (euphemism for 'not much responsibility involved'). Seriously, pick a small project where you can apply ShadowFax and learn from it.