Posts for: 31 December, 2009

Brown, Green, Refactor

ISerializable, December 31, 2009

Having seen enough crappy unit tests to last me a lifetime, I think there should be a parallel to the old red-green-refactor (from TDD) its evil twin brother should be Brown-Green-Refactor wherin y...

ASP.NET MVC Do I Really Need It?

Peter Brombergs UnBlog, December 31, 2009

As a professional software developer, particularly of the Microsoft flavor, you get bombarded with new stuff. If you do not instill in yourself a certain discipline, you are sure to be brought down by...

Win A Microsoft Surface Table

Radical Development, December 31, 2009

I recall when Microsoft Surface was first unveiled and I must admit I would love to have one of these sitting in my home? If you feel the same way then now is your chance to win one! The Microsoft Sur...

Tutorial: Expression Web and WordPress a Match Made in Coding Heaven

MSDN: ASP.NET, December 31, 2009

Web designers are faced with two major challenges: to create a great-looking and highly functional Web site and to fill that site with useful content so that people visit. Learn how WordPress represen...

Windows Azure Platform Training Course

MSDN: ASP.NET, December 31, 2009

Learn how to build applications that use Windows Azure and SQL Azure in this self-paced course of videos, samples and hands-on labs....

Simple 5 steps to run your first Azure program

The Code Project Latest Articles, December 31, 2009

Simple 5 steps to run your first Azure program...

Ultimate automatic stylesheet combining, minification and .less integration

Wayne Brantley, December 31, 2009

Combine your stylesheet css files into one file to improve site performance. We all know this rule, but how do we go about doing this? We could automate this in our build script, but then that means w...

Software Apprenticeship

ISerializable, December 31, 2009

Wow, maybe indeed it is time for a book about apprenticeship in software. I think the software craftsmanship initiative is long overdue, but it wont be complete without the idea of proper leadership, ...

Polling Video A Viable sub-second alternative?

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 31, 2009

  An interesting suggestion was made with regard to my intended use of embedded heartbeat markers.  Mike Loynd (WL) referred me to this fascinating article by John Deutscher (PM for IIS ...

SQLAuthority News 1200th Post An Important Milestone

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, December 31, 2009

Today is the last day of 2009 and this is my 1200th post! This year had been a wonderful year for me. I was actively involved with the community, and there were a lot of occasions where I could work ...



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