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I follow RSS feeds religiously and also at times do research on some of the work or problems I encounter. Often I get asked where I get my info so I decided to post some of the links I found recently that are truly informative and helps with various problems, or just great information to know about. The current list of links that I find valuable are: ASP.Net State Management ASP.Net Ajax Client Callbacks A Beginners Guide to LINQ to SQL within ASP.Net (VS 2008 & C#) Starter Database Schemas Does...
During Tech-Ed various speakers and guests of the event are invited to participate in video interviews regarding various technologies and subjects related to the event or the IT industry. These videos are then uploaded to the MSDN library for free download. This year some of the more well know community members and MVP's where involved in some very interesting interviews and they are now available on the Tech-Ed Online website. Currently videos are available featuring Thea Burger , Ernst Kuschke...
Jeff Attwood and Joel Spolsky started a new initiative called stackoverflow.com . The conceptual idea is for developers to record a question and upload it to the site, and have someone record the answer and respond to these questions. Jeff and Joel will also be recording a weekly phone call between them on various development topics. Both of them quite deeply describe the birth of the idea on their blogs, with Jeff blogging about it here about a week ago and more recently Joel on his blog here ....
I will be the first to admit that I am a bit late catching on to the whole Subversion and CruiseControl.Net revolution. In the past my project managers rarely found any value in these tools, and I will admit it is still rare to find a project manager who does. After being introduced to CVS a few months back I started investigating various development tools, not only to improve productivity but also to learn. The first product I started looking at in earnest was Subversion. About 3 months ago I installed...
In the last 2 month I have completed 2 project using AJAX . Both project required integration into external systems, the one into AccPac , and the other into Oasis, a sample management system based on FirebirdSQL and TCP/IP communication with a third party service. Both project were written in C# and ASP.Net 2.0. I have been suitable impressed with the power of AJAX and the various ways it can be implemented into a website. Website interfaces are finally becoming as powerful as their Windows counterparts...
SA Developer has recently run a few events in JHB and the Western Cape around LINQ. Unfortunately the KZN audience is not ready for a talk on LINQ, however personally I am extremely interested in it. I found a set of brilliant articles on DotNetSlackers explaining LINQ in detail. It's currently in 3 parts and the first starts here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!