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db40 for .NET Cheat Sheet

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

Agile Tactics for Reducing Costs

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

Quick Reference Poster - The VSTS Rangers "Scrumified" Process

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0 replies - 518 views - 10/21/09 by clemensreijnen in News

Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 3,4 & 5 (Michael Feathers)

In our late

0 replies - 395 views - 10/20/09 by markhneedham in News

What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Dependency Injection Mess With Mocks

Armed with

1 replies - 1232 views - 10/19/09 by sashag in News

"Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease"

The above quote was tossed off by Billy Hollis at the patterns&practices Summit this week in Redmond.

0 replies - 693 views - 10/16/09 by Ted Neward in News

My ASP.NET MVC Stack and Why I've Chosen It

In my current project I'm starting to develop a new web application using ASP.NET MVC and given all the environmental conditions, choosing the stack, from the...

0 replies - 1387 views - 10/15/09 by Simone Chiaretta in News

The Art of Unit Testing

The Art of Unit Testing, by well-known .NET developer Roy Osherove, is an excellent resource for developers interested in using unit tests to their full potential. While the book provides an...

0 replies - 2363 views - 10/14/09 by msonsino in Book Reviews

Learning Scala via C# Part 1 - What Is Scala?

There are new languages that come about all of the time. Lately it seems that most of the languages du jour are dynamic or functional languages. We have all...

0 replies - 1069 views - 10/14/09 by justin_etheredge in News

What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Test Infrastructure

In the previous installment I mentioned that I wasn’t satisfied with tests that check whether a single constructor throws a single exception. Over the years...

0 replies - 612 views - 10/13/09 by sashag in News

LINQ Programming

This book will be useful for newbies as well as the highly experienced in understanding and applying LINQ to optimize access to various data sources. The material is very useful for anyone...

0 replies - 1549 views - 10/12/09 by jimkohli in Book Reviews

HttpContext.Items[] vs Session[]

Since .NET first because available, passing data around during a request has become a lot easier. The ability to set a property has made that so. Still...

1 replies - 1159 views - 10/12/09 by DaveMBush in News

Review: The .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security

A month ago I started a new reading regime where I get up an hour earlier and head off to a café for an hour’s reading before work. It’s a very nice...

0 replies - 613 views - 10/09/09 by mikehadlow in News

Understanding the NHibernate Type System

This article is taken from NHibernate in Action from Manning Publications. This article delves into the NHibernate type system. For the table of contents, the...

0 replies - 1665 views - 10/08/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Our Biggest Enemy Isn’t Developers Who Refuse To Move Forward, It is Developers Who Pretend To Move Forward

Software Engineering is such a nascent practice that we have very little that we can point at for facts, and instead spend much of our time listening to...

1 replies - 1238 views - 10/08/09 by justin_etheredge in News

Who has the Best Cloud? Developers Weigh In

Over 400 software developers recently ranked leading cloud service providers in a study released today by Evans Data Corp. The survey gauged opinions on...

1 replies - 4118 views - 10/08/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News