Daily Links - 23/11/2007

What is the MVC noise all about, anyway?
Pt 1
Pt 2
Pt 3

New Compression Features in SQL Server 2008

Snippet Editor for Visual Studio 2005/2008

Linux install for newbies
"Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 7.10 that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other distributions"

Optimise SQL Server queries with these advanced tuning techniques

DLinq (Linq to SQL) Performance

Cruise Control.NET and VS 2008 web projects

SVN Server
"everything you need to install, configure and manage Subversion server for your team on Windows platform."

Reducing Server Load and Network Traffic in REST/Ajax Architectures

Exploring one of M$ AJAX's often overlooked features

Daily Links - 21/11/2007

InterSystem's Cache
"high-performance object database that runs SQL five times faster than relational databases"
It's got free (single user) download, so check it out.
Anyone have experience in using Cache? Leave a comment.

15 -hot- tools that made me a coding Paris Hilton.

Yet (E)Another Tab Interface Implementation (YETII)
"simple, yet functional tab interface implementation"
Javascript tab interface

Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions
Visual Studio 2008 Express All-In-One DVD image file

AJAX Control Toolkit
AJAX Control Toolkit Samples

SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition (for Mobile Devices)
"1.7MB free redistributable runtime engine for SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition"
Downlaods

JavaScript TimePicker
Nifty clock interface with drag functionality on hour and minute hands

Daily Links - 11/10/2007

Layered Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Dependency Inversion

Database Performance Optimization - Denormalization using MySQL Triggers

Caching in ASP.NET while making sure that cache data is synch'ed with the database - in 3.5 minutes

Google Gears
"open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality"
"Gears provides three key features:
* A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
* A database, to store and access data from within the browser
* A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background"

Speed Up Your Site! 8 ASP.NET Performance Tips

43 Exceptionally useful AJAX Applications

Daily Links - 08/10/2007

Silverlight links

GOA Winforms for Silverlight and Flash development
Winforms controls for Silverlight development

SQL Server: Notify user of long running process
...also handy for keeping long processes alive in .NET

Cool UI Templating Technique to use with ASP.NET AJAX for non-UpdatePanel scenarios

More than 100 on-line web 2.0 generators

Super easy SQL Server 2005 Database Schema change auditing

Scott Guthrie announces ASP.NET MVC framework at Alt.Net Conf

How to debug web applications using Firebug

Working with DataReaders
Overview article on using DataReader for efficient data access.

ScaleOut Software (3rd party software)
Distributed caching for server farms

tangible FREE modeling tools for Visual Studio.NET
"With tangible modelling tools you can directly create Use Case Diagrams, Component Diagrams, State Charts, Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Persistent Object Models."
I would like to have seen sequence diagram integration

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 - 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 - 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 - 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

Daily Links - 28/8/2007

Java is doomed to failure

Lightweight Google GeoCoder with Java

Where are all the cool startups that run on ASP.NET?

ASP.NET AJAX:
How do you know all of your ajax calls have completed?

Visual Studio Code Snippet Editor - Snippy

Daily Links - 23/8/2007

Latest ASP.NET AJAX Articles

Martin Fowler's Bliki
If you haven't heard of Martin Fowler, and you're a software developer, you're loosing out. Start here and here

.NET Gmail API
Handy open-source library for automated Gmail integration from .NET

...and for those who have been on large ambitious projects:

Daily Links - 22/8/2007

Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development

60 AJAX developer resources and tutorials

MbUnit + NUnitForms = MbUnitForms

...and finally something I think most of you have seen, but since I seem to be reminded of it on a daily basis, I thought I'd post it: