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Kill Your Users Table

It's time to rethink how we store user information. You don't need as much as you think you do. Consider...Reddit's database was stolen a little over a year...

0 replies - 172 views - 07/07/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Beauty vs. Usability - a Tale of Two Masters

We as passionate developers (or managers, CTO’s, help desk jockeys…etc) have one thing in common, we are attracted like moths to a flame towards the latest...

1 replies - 573 views - 07/03/08 by sarajo in News

C# - Singleton Pattern vs. Static Classes

Problem: Store some common data in a singleton or static class about your program in an object array, which you store in a class. It saves state between usages...

0 replies - 765 views - 07/03/08 by smallenDNP in News

ASP.NET - ViewState - Client Side State Management

The ASP.NET ViewState is a client side state management technique which enables web pages to persist their state during postbacks. In the life cycle of a page,...

0 replies - 321 views - 07/03/08 by gilf in News

26 Not To Be Missed .NET Articles - June 2008 - .NET Zone

This month we have even more then in May in fact, we have almost tripple, we cover topics such as Deliver Next-Generation SOA Apps with Microsoft Robotics...

2 replies - 654 views - 07/02/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

BBC Dumps Microsoft For Adobe AIR

The BBC has been using Microsoft technologies for widgets that are used by "hundreds of thousands of users". And they have just publicly stated that...

0 replies - 369 views - 07/02/08 by BenForta in News

ASP.NET Client Side State Management

There are two types of state management - server side and client side. In this post I'm going to introduce the client side state management and explain when to...

0 replies - 261 views - 06/30/08 by gilf in News

ASP.NET Design Patterns, Test Driven Development and Agile Development Book List

I've been collecting book recommendations on software design principles and patterns, test-driven development, and agile development. I wanted to share my...

1 replies - 319 views - 06/30/08 by Stephen.Walther in News

Silverlight 2 Refcard Available - Download Now

DZone has the very first quick reference card for Silverlight 2. Light up the web! Silverlight is Microsoft’s offering for designing, developing, and...

0 replies - 502 views - 06/29/08 by Jill Tomich in News

jQuery for Asp.net MVC preview 3

So, I finally got a chance to sit down and finish up the jQuery for Asp.net Mvc preview 3. If you haven’t already read Scott’s post about preview 3,  you...

1 replies - 829 views - 06/27/08 by alley in News

.NET LINQ to MSI - Part 1 - Interop

Without any physical data access layer, there's no way to build abstractions on top of it. So, in this part of this series we'll take a look at some very...

0 replies - 253 views - 06/24/08 by bdesmet in News

.NET WeakReference: GC knows the Best

When I first read about weak references in .NET more than 5 years ago, my first thought was to use it for Caching. The concept was already present in Java...

0 replies - 217 views - 06/23/08 by raasiel in News

Dll Heaven: Multiple Versions One Assembly

Everyone wants their application to be backward compatible and if the application is based on a plug-in based architecture then such a feature can be a nice...

0 replies - 195 views - 06/21/08 by raasiel in News

Stylize Standard WPF Tabs Into Aqua Gel

I was making this WPF based application on weekends and wanted it to have a gel like look. I did not want to create a new control instead I wanted to make sure...

0 replies - 681 views - 06/20/08 by raasiel in News

ASP.NET MVC Rocks the iPhone

With much fanfare Apple announced the availability of the iPhone SDK. I downloaded it and someday plan to play around with it, though with the SDK already...

0 replies - 502 views - 06/19/08 by Aaron Lerch in News