Daily Links - 28/9/2007

.NET framework cleanup tool

Essential Developer Productivity Tools List

"Block length does not match with its complement." in DeflateStream
(specific to pdf decompression)

The Mythical Business Layer
An excellent article on over-engineered software

How to update controls using background worker

Compression and Decompression of Files using Visual Basic 2005
included is some useful information in the differences between DeflateStream & GZipStream

Why Fixed Price, Scope Bids are incompatible with Software Development

XMLPad 3
Free XML Editor Tool ++

Daily Links - 25/9/2007

Quaere: LINQ Arrives for Java

BDD, TDD, and the other Double D's

11 Visual Studio 2005 IDE tips and tricks to make you a more productive developer

Hard Questions about architects

7 ways to hire smarter programmers

Open Source .NET Application Generator
Brief overview open source code generation tools

Daily Links - 21/9/2007

The internet has been a bit short on quality links of late :|
Here are a few from the previous few days:

Best Practice for improving .NET performance and scalability

Understanding UML Use Case Modeling

Dependency Injection using Generics

Running Queries On Multi-Core Processors with PLINQ

Scott Guthrie on .NET futures

Daily Links - 18/9/2007

27 Tips for Building a Kick-Ass Blog

30 Essential Pieces and Free (and Open) Software for Windows

SUPERGUIDE: The Open Source Challenge. How to replace Windows completely with Ubuntu.

How to implement scrum in 10 easy steps

CopyTo(T target)
copy object properties to another object of a different type

ASP.NET AJAX Web Service: Common Issues

Compress ASP.NET AJAX Web Service response to save bandwidth

Daily Links - 14/9/2007

Creating your first ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Application

Scrum: Agile Software Development for Project Management

Writing custom .NET trace listeners
An old article, but still handy.

Another classic dilbert

Daily Links - 13/9/2007

Firebug Tutorial - Logging, Profiling and Commandline

Windows Live Writer
Desktop application for editing and posting to your blog

Foxit Reader
replacement for adobe acrobat reader (pdf reader) Apparently much faster

ImgBurn
"ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!"

The Lamborghini Reventon

Daily Links - 12/9/2007

Installing Ubuntu From A Windows System With Wubi
No repartitioning of the hard-drive necessary.

Introduction to Spring IDE 2.0
Spring plug-in for Eclipse

Design vs Coding - How much is too much?
Blog entry from JP Boodhoo about when to use UML diagramming and how it fits in to the TDD/Agile paradigm.

Easily test custom controls inside Visual Studio
...without launching the entire application

How to: Suppress FxCop messages in code

Daily Links - 11/9/2007

What's new in .NET Framework 3.5

Selling your own software vs working for the man (WFTM)

Create strong-named assemblies - the easy way
some more on Strong Naming
I'm yet to be convinced of the value of strong-naming your assemblies, since it's a bit of a hassle, and easily hacked - if anyone has convincing arguments for strong-naming, please comment

Daily Links - 10/9/2007

Gaphor - Free UML modeling tool
Supports UML 2.0 standard

Overview - ASP.NET 3.5

Is JSON just for AJAX?

10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications

One Shell Command to delete all svn hidden folders

Determining when last a Stored Proc has been altered (SQL Server)

comparison of M$ Ajax and Gaia Web Widgets Framework
This article specifically compares data across the wire for an AJAX operation.

Free windows forms component library - Krypton Toolkit
Seems to have a number of office UI laf components. Does seem to be a bit of a plug for their commercial components though.

Making Windows Forms thread safe
Link 1
Link 2
In order to make windows forms have a responsive UI when implementing process code, you need to execute the code on a separate thread. These articles deal with updating the UI from a different thread.

The .NET answer to Google's GWT - Open source AJAX framework extending WinForms over ASP.NET
Not really comparable to GWT - since GWT operates with client-side javascript, and
VWG is server-side Ajax, but anyway - that's what the title says.
VWG seems to implement a different kind of Ajax to the other Ajax framework implementations - server-side Ajax for web UI
Check out an article on it here
...and here's an article on creating your first VWG application

Daily Links - 7/9/2007

Continuous Integration For .NET 2.0 Development Environments: Downloadable Booklet

Top 10 Tips on Version Control for Small Agile Software Teams

JavaScript Tutorial - using setTimeout & setInterval

Simple Tutorial on How to set up Subversion
Subversion is an alternative open-source source control software
Visual Studio plugins that support SVN include Ankh and VisualSVN

Why Write Test Code?

Beautify your Blog's Code Samples with These Syntax Highlighters

XML Notepad
View an XML file in treeview / value format (no tags to confuse layman users)
Also handy for creating template xml files

DataBinding an Enum with Descriptions
Handy article on binding Enums as datasource to controls. Includes .NET 3.5 extension method use

101 Tools for conversion
List of conversion tools to convert files from one format to another (media / documents / images etc.)

Daily Links - 6/9/2007

Programmer or Developer?
An article on the difference between the two.

Evolutionary Software Architecture
follow-up to previous linked post Do we need Software architects?

LinQPad
Query databases / objects etc with LinQ instead of SQL syntax

CodeSmith
Template-driven code generator (supports any language)

Merging .NET assemblies using ILMerge
Gilma - GUI for ILMerge Application
- this should come in handy for XCopy deployment ie: merge all your dependancies into the exe assembly

Daily Links - 5/9/2007

Ajax application development for Java developers:
GWT Designer: GUI creator that supports GWT (Google Web Toolkit)
Alternatively, check out YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library)
Check out examples here

Disadvantages if Agile Software Development

Silverlight video training nuggets

ASP.NET Listview - CSS friendly

ASP.NET Charting with NPlot
A free charting library for ASP.NET

Using Data Compression in .NET 2.0

MemoryStream Compression using SharpZipLib

.NET Encryption Simplified

Software Development flowchart (Joke)

Daily Links - 4/9/2007

Service Orientated Architecture is your ticket to hell

ADO.NET Entity Framework
M$ proprietary OR Mapping
Download
Some articles
Link 1
Link 2

Behavior Driven Development
Behavior Unit Test Tool
NBehave: A BDD Tool

Interface vs Abstract class

Fast, Scalable, and Secure Session State Management for Your Web Applications

Daily Links - 3/9/2007

A completely subjective comparison of Ajax libraries for ASP.NET

Comparison of Java & .NET Generics

A healthy discussion on the role of software architects - do we really need them?

20 Tips to improve ASP.NET Application Performance

Use of the PayPal payment system in ASP.NET

Overriding ToString() for easier debugging