A collection of useful links and resources for ASP.NET MVC developers, covering tools, tutorials, and lifecycle explanations.
A look at BBC's participation in Google Summer of Code 2008 and their notable open-source projects like Kamaelia and Dirac.
A reflection on the importance of client and coworker communication in web development to build respect for the technical process.
Explores a clever programming technique using uninitialized memory for efficient sparse set operations, turning linear-time tasks into constant-time.
Announcement and recap of the Microsoft TechDays 2008 conference in Belgium, focusing on Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET and Silverlight.
A 2008 blog post exploring TextGlow, a project combining Silverlight 2.0 and OpenXML to create a web-based Word 2007 document viewer.
Microsoft releases the source code for Singularity, a research OS written primarily in managed code, enabling new possibilities for OS development.
Explains the W3C Selectors API, comparing querySelector and querySelectorAll for efficient DOM traversal using CSS selectors in JavaScript.
PHPLinq 0.2.0 released, bringing .NET's LINQ query syntax to PHP for querying arrays, XML, and other data sources.
A web developer shares his excitement and plans for attending the SXSW Interactive conference, highlighting key tech panels on JavaScript, browsers, and design.
A developer details the painful process of using AppleScript and GUI automation to work around Microsoft Entourage's limited scripting support for rules and folders.
A developer's analysis of Mercurial's named branching feature, highlighting its benefits and significant drawbacks when used with hgweb.
A guide on configuring Mercurial's hg email command to send patches via a Gmail account using exim4 on Debian.
Explores advanced XPath techniques in JavaScript, focusing on compound location paths and predicates for precise DOM node selection.
A guide to creating incremental backups using rsync with --link-dest, discussing challenges with cross-platform file systems like VFAT.
A tutorial on implementing data-driven web testing in Visual Studio 2008, focusing on linking databases and validation rules.
Introduction to using XPath expressions in JavaScript for selecting nodes in XML/HTML documents, covering syntax and browser support.
A tutorial on implementing Data Driven Testing for unit tests in Visual Studio 2008, using a database as a data source.
A tutorial on using Visual Studio 2008's built-in performance profiling tool to identify and analyze a memory issue in C# code.
Explains how to use Scala's mixin composition to create AOP-style interceptor stacks for cross-cutting concerns like logging and transactions.
