Code Complete by Steve McConnellis, in my opinion (and many others), the best book ever about the art and discipline of coding. Basically, it's just the bible of how to design and build quality...
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This comment to my moan about thisis VERY cool:
I think I've solved your problem! I've successfully developed a Mozilla wrapper for Microsoft's HTC files. It is encapsulated in a single XBL binding,...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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I do have a tendency to get involved in pointless arguments in the ASP.NET Forums...a good example is this one, arguing about the performance of 'foreach' versus 'for'...any opinions from here - the...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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I've been giving some more thought to the ViewState stuff I mentioned earlier. It actually brings up something which I find most annoying about ASP.NET - and this is not a political point! Why exactly...
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Nice sample and methodology from Robert Downey (obvious joke omitted), shows some really interesting (to me at least) insights into the workings of ViewState (you may be noticing a pattern here :-))
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I'm working...hmm...thought I'd mention a very odd bug I came across yesterday at
work - which had me puzzled for about a day and a half...
I had written an application (the Portal I've mentioned...
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Very useful...http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/
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ASP.NET has a problem with file downloads...basically if you use Response.WriteFile(fileName),
the entire file is buffered in memory before its' downloaded - this is NOT good for
scalability. To get...
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Hmm...got a new swish 3G mobile phone, the NEC
e606, got a pretty good deal - works out cheaper than my old phone with a GPRS
package - but with 10 times tha bandwidth and no restrictions on VPN ports...
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This discussion on Slashdothas
finally made my mind up. I have been a reader of Slashdot for a number of years,
I believe I started reading it in the first month it existed. I'm even one of...
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