Agile Tactics for Reducing Costs

Learn how evolutionary design, refactoring, and automated testing can help you reduce costs, eliminate risks.

db40 for .NET Cheat Sheet

This Refcard walks you through db4o's basic operations, various query types and data access optimization techniques.

The Blurring Lines of Languages

On Twitter the other day I had a short conversation (well, it wasn’t really a conversation since it was only about 4 tweets) with Jeff Cohen who is the...

1 replies - 204 views - 06/30/09 by justin_etheredge in News

An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two

Previously we gave an introduction to functional languages. Now we take a look at some functional programming examples with F#.

3 replies - 1995 views - 06/30/09 by Ken Sipe in Articles

Google I/O 2009 - AJAX APIs to Navigate User-Generated Content

Vast Rank is a College Ranking & Review website that makes use of several Google APIs to power its unique set of features. This session will dig into the...

2 replies - 283 views - 06/29/09 by alashcraft in Videos

Are You in a Claustrophobic Team?

Something that never ceases to humor me is how managers still believe that scaling people on a project will increase the productivity by an equal proportion....

2 replies - 375 views - 06/29/09 by Maxfield Pool in News

Ajax Survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are Almost Tied Among .NET Developers

Almost one month ago I created a survey in order to try and understand how .NET developers are using Ajax. And also to compare it with the results I collected...

1 replies - 346 views - 06/26/09 by Simone Chiaretta in News

Does jQuery Make Us Lazy?

Yesterday I read a post that proposed that using jQuery as the answer to every JavaScript problem makes us lazy programmers.This is not what I was expecting to...

2 replies - 289 views - 06/25/09 by DaveMBush in News

Video: Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session

The recordings for the session I gave on XNA Game Studio 3.0 and the XNA Framework to the Facebook .NET Programmers Group have now been posted.  In this...

0 replies - 215 views - 06/25/09 by peekb in Videos

An Introduction to Functional Languages

There has been explosion of software development languages in recent years. Chief among these languages or programming approaches is functional programming. ...

8 replies - 5092 views - 06/25/09 by Ken Sipe in Articles

From Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition: UI Element Binding

One reason I’ve been so quiet over the past couple months, is I have been scrambling to update Chad Campbell and John Stockton’s excellent Manning...

1 replies - 185 views - 06/24/09 by Psychlist1972 in News

Getting Started with Parallel Programming

Multi-core computers have shifted the burden of software performance from chip designers to software architects and developers. In order to gain the full...

5 replies - 5038 views - 06/23/09 by HFadeel in Articles

.NET Fireside Chats - Nick Berardi on 'ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming'

Microsoft recently released the ASP.NET MVC Framework version 1.0. As a result, there are several recent titles which focus on the MVC Framework. One of those...

1 replies - 543 views - 06/23/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Seams: Some Thoughts

I pick up Michael Feathers' Working Effectively with Legacy Code book from time to time and one of my favourite parts of the book is the chapter where he talks...

1 replies - 327 views - 06/22/09 by markhneedham in News

Versioning Your Silverlight Application

When writing an enterprise level application it’s critical to have a version number.  Whether it’s located on the help screen or in debug mode, this will...

1 replies - 162 views - 06/15/09 by cschuman in News

F#: Using C# Extension Methods

An interesting thing I noticed about referencing C# libraries from F# is that you can't access C# extension methods in the same way that you would be able to...

0 replies - 232 views - 06/15/09 by markhneedham in News

Video: Typemock Isolator basics- Lesson 3

The final part of the Typemock Isolator Basics series, presented by Gil Ziberfeld from Typemock. This video looks at mocking database calls.Enjoy!

1 replies - 211 views - 06/15/09 by alashcraft in Videos