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Year-end desk cleanup

vlad — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:18:00 +0200

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. http://960.gs/

Cuyahoga is an open source .NET web site framework. It provides content management capabilities and has a modular approach. http://www.cuyahoga-project.org/

ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed
Chapter 25. Caching Application Pages and Data
Chapter 21. Advanced Navigation
Chapter 20. Using Site Maps

Spring Batch is a lightweight, comprehensive batch framework designed to enable the development of robust batch applications vital for the daily operations of enterprise systems. http://static.springsource.org/spring-batch/

The SQL Site Map Provider You've Been Waiting For
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163657.aspx

Implement Custom Cache Dependencies in ASP.NET 1.x by Dino Esposito http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163955.aspx

Kentico CMS for ASP.NET flexible, all-in-one solution for web developers http://www.kentico.com/

Open Source CMS http://www.umbraco.org/

Building Layered Web Applications with Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0
N-Layered Web Applications with ASP.NET 3.5

S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate Pronounced "Sharp Architecture," this is a solid architectural foundation for rapidly building maintainable web applications leveraging the ASP.NET MVC framework with NHibernate. http://code.google.com/p/sharp-architecture/

Tip/Trick: Url Rewriting with ASP.NET

Using Common Table Expressions http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190766.aspx

Visual Basic LINQ Hands On Labs for Visual Studio 2008

12 More SEO Tips for 2007

Google Help › Analytics Help › How do I track AJAX applications?

Simplify Ajax development with jQuery Discover how easy Ajax and DOM scripting can be http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-ajaxjquery.html

Rendering individual controls for AJAX Callbacks

jQuery: Write less, do more

Getting Clueful: 7 Things CIOs Should Know About Agile Development

Version Control for Multiple Agile Teams http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-version-control

Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection: Working with Windsor Container Oren Eini http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973811.aspx

Inversion of Control - Dependency Inversion Principle - Castle's Windsor/MicroKernel David Hayden

Higgins 1.0: Identity Management Solutions from the Eclipse Foundation

Three Rules for Database Work by K. Scott Allen

Using XQuery to Manage XML with SQL Server 2005

Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET by Jimmy Nilsson http://techbus.safaribooksonline.com/0321268202

Mocks Aren't Stubs by Martin Fowler http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and specialized messaging patterns This white paper discusses specializations for advanced data exchanges within enterprise service oriented environments and illustrates some of the common architectures of these new platforms. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/soa_messaging.html

A control adapter can "teach" the Menu how to produce this kind of CSS friendly HTML without sacrificing the power and flexibility of the original Menu control. http://www.asp.net/cssadapters/menu.aspx

Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by STEVE KRUG

jQuery Puts the Fun Back into Browser Scripting by Rick Strahl

On The Care and Handling of Cookies By Paul Riley

Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay Posted by Randy Shoup

Guidelines for Using Distributed Queries

SELECT * INTO tableA FROM tableB 
=> this will create tableA based on tableB schema and insert the data

A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins by Jeff Atwood

Programmatically retrieve an InfoPath form from a SharePoint library by S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton

Aging of Accounts Receivable

Web Service optimization By Alexander Yumashev

Chapter 6 — Improving ASP.NET Performance by P&P

Custom Paging in ASP.NET 2.0 with SQL Server 2005 By Scott Mitchell
Sorting Custom Paged Results By Scott Mitchell

CSS rounded corners

vlad — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:58:07 +0200

CSS Round Corners
http://www.spiffybox.com/
http://www.spiffycorners.com/
http://blog.yosle.com/2007/09/20/css-round-corners/
http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000044.php

Playing with Regex

vlad — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:51:16 +0200

Example - URL Extractor
http://www.dotnetcoders.com/web/Learning/Regex/exHrefExtractor.aspx

http://regexlib.com

http://sexyregex.com/regex/test/replace/3863#testdata

ASP.NET output caching

vlad — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:39:41 +0200

http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2006/05/13/Custom_Output_Caching_in_ASP.NET.aspx

Tip/Trick: Implement "Donut Caching" with the ASP.NET 2.0 Output Cache Substitution Feature

"For anyone interested in seeing the above in some real code, subText uses this very technique to cache several of the user controls needed to render the UI..." - http://subtextproject.com/

Storing Binary Data to Database

vlad — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:27:32 +0200

http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-Tutorials/Binary-Files-To-Database.aspx

Good VB.NET and Linq to XML resource

vlad — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:27:46 +0200

Beth Massi posted nice presentation on Ling to XML on Infoq.com.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/massi-linq-xml

She also rights regularily on her blog "Sharring the goodness tha is VB" - http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/

VB.NET 9.0 has nice syntactic sugar tha C# 3.0 don't have for working with XML and Linq.

JavaScript frameworks

vlad — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:43:42 +0200

I am getting more and more comfortable with different javascript frameworks.
The simple reason is that frameworks got much better.
I used javascript here and there before but tried to stay away from internals and poluting my memory with different behaviors of JavaScript in different browsers.

My first encounter with AJAX was via using MagicAjax.net at the begining of 2005. Later when Atlas/ASP.NET AJAX got better I start using it for my projects.
I have now enough understanding to see that ASP.NET AJAX can be somewhat havy and from now on I am trying to use more browser friendlier and much lighter options utilizing following javascript libraries and CSS resources:

jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
Ext JS 2.0 Ext JS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications.
Dynamic Drive's new CSS library! Here you'll find original, practical CSS codes and examples such as CSS menus to give your site a visual boast.

Combine this with the good server side scripting technology like ASP.NET, PHP, Ruby on Rails and others and you may get very close to perfect harmony and nice warm Zen like feeling about design and performance of your web application. ;-)

LINQ

vlad — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:40:12 +0200

Link to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers
http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2008/02/28/link-to-everything-a-list-of-linq-providers.aspx

LINQPad lets you interactively query SQL databases in a modern query language: LINQ. Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio!
http://www.linqpad.net/

Visual LINQ Query Builder http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vlinq/

Creating Custom Cache Dependency

vlad — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:36:01 +0200

http://www.dotnetbips.com/articles/864c5b09-3e46-48b7-b4e8-f80d0db6c57c.aspx

Versioning Controlled Build

vlad — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:27:46 +0200

Versioning Controlled Build