http://net.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for .net en Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:12:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2745684 unknown@DZone.com Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea but Data as Service isn't a Bad Idea 
 Early this week I encountered the post "Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea" written by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz in DZone. 
 The title caught my eye and I read the post. I must say that there are a lot of things that I agree with the author and there are some things that I think should be considered again and will be explained in this post. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:12:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2745684.nethow-toMicrosoftriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2745424 unknown@DZone.com Few well known bitwise operation problem collection Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:19:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2745424.netMicrosoftProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2745338 unknown@DZone.com I’m writing a small app for a demonstration purpose. What I have is a domain model where I have a Customer, I also have CustomerRepository. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:45:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2745338.netframeworksProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2745128 unknown@DZone.com NEVER SIGN A NON-COMPETE CONTRACT! Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:11:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2745128.netajaxframeworksopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2744804 unknown@DZone.com Agile software development is an umbrella term for several software development methods (including Extreme Programming and Scrum) that were developed in the 1990s. These methods share a common philosophy which was described as values and principles in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. (My essay "The New Methodology" goes into this in more depth.)
 
 There was a connection between lean manufacturing and agile software from the beginning in that many of the developers of the various agile methods were influenced by the ideas of lean manufacturing. This connection was made more explicit by Mary and Tom Poppendieck. Mary had worked in a manufacturing plant that had adopted lean manufacturing and her husband Tom is an experienced software developer. They have written a couple of books on the application of Lean ideas in the software world. When people talk about Lean Software they are usually referring to the ideas in these books, although others have been making similar links. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:52:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2744804.netagilejavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2744724 unknown@DZone.com A question came up in the dashCommerce forums about SubSonic's ability to scale. I'd like to address this a bit as the link has been deleted and I don't appear to have the rights to comment on Chris Cyvas's blog. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:42:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2744724.netframeworksProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2744726 unknown@DZone.com My third installment in the Learning F# Series is coming out in the next day or two. While I was writing it, I had some time to reflect on why learning F# is so hard for an object-oriented programmer like me. So I decided to write some of those thoughts into the third installment. After reading it in context, though, I decided that my observations would be better stated as a separate article, outside of the tutorial altogether. If you are tracking my multi-part F# series, you don't have to read this to stay on track. But if you want to understand why F# and functional programming in general seems so hard to you, you may find this piece interesting. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:42:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2744726.netopinionother languagestrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2744558 unknown@DZone.com I decided that I wanted to give the YahooUI (YUI) framework/library a go recently. My first task was to get a few of my data listing pages on Dimecasts.net to use the DataTable Control from YUI. Having never used the library I was not sure what I was in for, but for once (ok, maybe a bit of an exaggeration) I was flooded with TOO much documentation. With a bit help from Chris Sutton I was able to get a pretty nice datatable up an running in a pretty short period of time. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:22:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2744558.netframeworksjavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2744507 unknown@DZone.com There are a couple of ways to get a split view in Visual Studio. Both are incredible time savers that I use daily. The first is one that most developers will be aware of, but the second seems to be one that many do not seem to know about. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:50:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2744507.nethow-totoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2743754 unknown@DZone.com Another very simple pattern builds on the foundation of the Safe-Unsafe Cache pattern. What is the easiest way to protect data from multi-threaded access and to incur the minimal performance cost while doing so? Making it read-only! Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:30:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2743754.netframeworkstrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2743467 unknown@DZone.com A year or so ago I wrote a post called Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it. Here’s the same kind of list for Microsoft’s Silverlight, based on the forthcoming Silverlight 2.0 rather than the current version. The items are not in any kind of order - they also reflect my interest in application development rather than design. It is not a definitive list, so there are many more points you could make - by all means comment - and it will be interesting to have another look a year from now when the real thing has been out for a while. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:01:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2743467.netframeworksopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2743063 unknown@DZone.com "ASP .net has no respect." Rick Strahl writes.
 
 Then, what has respect in web development? Java, Python, Php, ruby, ...?
 
 Some skin-deep statistics first: What has the magnet for the job market? Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:29:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2743063.netphppythonProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2743023 unknown@DZone.com This article explains how to transfer values between the Parent page and a Pop-up window. The code has been tested against IE7 and Firefox. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:28:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2743023.netajaxhow-toweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2742837 unknown@DZone.com Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code. In this case the query run time went from 24 hours+ to 36 seconds!!! Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:26:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2742837.netdatabasehow-toopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2742732 unknown@DZone.com I was going to present an analogy using different types of cars, but more often than not, the analogy breaks down on some key point or carries some baggage that just doesn’t, and folks start picking apart the analogy and assuming it still applies to the real discussion. The only way to get a perfect analogy is to just talk about what you’re talking about :). So anyway… Lately, I’ve seen a lot of Flash vs. Silverlight posts on various sites. (To the person who thinks this is just about your post, it isn’t >). I usually do my best to stay out of those, because I think the “vs” story is too deep for any one person to accurately portray, but once in a while, I step in. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:56:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2742732.netflash-flexMicrosoftriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2742688 unknown@DZone.com Why exposing the database through a web-service (RESTful or otherwise) is wrong. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:41:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2742688.netjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2741961 unknown@DZone.com A class for creating different types of pagination link in Asp.Net Mvc. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:44:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2741961.netopen sourcetoolsweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2741828 unknown@DZone.com Garbage Collection sure is great, isn’t it? We don’t have to keep track of all the memory we’ve allocated and we don’t need to release that memory when it’s no longer needed. Because that is after all what the Garbage Collector does for us, without us having to worry about it. This is actually a widespread misconception among many .NET developers. It’s true that Garbage Collection makes memory management a lot easier, but we simply can’t rely on it all the time. There are most certainly some things you must always keep in mind when it comes to memory management in .NET. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:17:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2741828.netProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2741001 unknown@DZone.com ADC stands for AJAX Data Controls. It is one remarkable set of script data controls built with the Microsoft AJAX library. Emulting the enormously powerful and popular suite of ASP .net data controls such as gridview, datalist and repeater, ADC offers the same data binding capacity and representational forms. The set of ADC controls include four players: gridview, datalist, repeater and pager. While with "orthodox" (for lack of a better word) asp .net data controls, paging is set as part of of properties, with "maverick" ADC, pager is created as a control itself and is to used in conjunction with other controls: gridview, datalist and repeater. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:39:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2741001.netajaxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2740967 unknown@DZone.com For some reason, there are some people who write web sites with PHP, but put the ".aspx" extension at the end of their files. WHY??? Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:28:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2740967.netMicrosoftopinionphpProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2740207 unknown@DZone.com We are excited to announce the immediate availability of our advanced .NET logging, Java logging and Delphi logging tool SmartInspect 3.0. The new release makes SmartInspect even more suitable for debugging and monitoring high-performance production systems, for working with test systems and for end-user scenarios. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:01:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2740207.netannouncementjavatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2740187 unknown@DZone.com This is the first of number of posts to come on getting started with jQuery with no previous knowledge of the framework. Over the course, various jQuery Plug-Ins will be used and discussed along with gradual integration with traditional ASP.Net 2.0 web applications components (i.e. Master Pages, User Controls, and ASP.Net AJAX). Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:24:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2740187.netjavascriptweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2739856 unknown@DZone.com Folks were hassling me in the comments for not posting the picosecond that .NET 3.5 SP1 came out (or, as I like to call it, .NET 3.6 - although the bosses really don't like that).
 
 First, the obvious stuff. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:43:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2739856.netframeworksProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2739857 unknown@DZone.com A paper by Thibaud Lopez Schneider shows that we can transform a function written with conventional control structures and synchronous function calls into a set of callback functions that work in an asychronous environment, such as an RIA that uses XHR. Longer-term, tools may evolved that will automate this process, to simplify the development of correct asynchronous applications. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:20:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2739857.netjavajavascriptriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2739725 unknown@DZone.com A short screencasts on how to do XML Data Manipulation with XLinq Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:51:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2739725.nethow-toMicrosoftxmlProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2739663 unknown@DZone.com A better way to create a single instance application Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:52:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2739663.nethow-toMicrosoftopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2739622 unknown@DZone.com GC flavors are a static performance optimization for the .NET garbage collector. Under various circumstances, applications can opt-in (before runtime) to a runtime mode that affects the GC’s behavior to better suit the specific application in question. For a succinct yet complete description of GC flavors, Maoni’s blog is a great source of information. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:12:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2739622.netframeworksMicrosoftProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2739312 unknown@DZone.com A tutorial explaining how to use MSHTML in the .NET framework to create a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
 (Visual Studio - C#) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:55:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2739312.netcss-htmlhow-toweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2739271 unknown@DZone.com Visual Studio 2008 SP1 introduces significant new functionality as ADO.NET expands and evolves to change the way that we program against data. Between the Visual Studio 200 SP1 beta and RTM , there are a number of fixes and even a few new things to be found. What's in ADO.NET? Check out the list below for what's new in the Entity Framework and Entity Designer. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:57:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2739271.netframeworksMicrosofttoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2739108 unknown@DZone.com Based on her experience in being in the programme committee at several IT conferences, Aino Vonge Corry takes a guess on the upcoming trends in the IT field as well as she comments on some of the trends from previous years. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:53:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2739108.netjavaother languagestrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2738943 unknown@DZone.com PowerShell provides the += operator to add one hash table to another hash table. By default this operation will result in an error, if both hash tables have at least one key that is common in both collections. In some cases you may want to have a more granular control. For example, you don't want to get an error, if not only the key, but also the value is common in both collections. On top of this somebody might want to allow an overwrite, if the key and the value are going to be identical as result of the merge. This could be useful, if the hash table is used as template for replacing strings. Updating the master table by adding a key value pair that refers to the same string would mean to exclude this particular replacement pair from the replacement transactions. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:39:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2738943.netother languagestoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2738845 unknown@DZone.com which one is the best? decide after reading this article. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:23:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2738845.netopen sourcephpstandardsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2738311 unknown@DZone.com In the past year I have been passionately fighting what Simon Peyton Jones calls "the effects monster", although often it feels like I am fighting windmils instead. No useful programs can be written without effects, but effects turn bad when they are observable from within the program itself. Instead we should strive for encapsulating effects such that they become harmless first class pure values, but more on that in the future. In this first installment in a longer series on the perils of side-effects, we will look at one of the most beautiful examples of observable effects, namely closures and variable capture in imperative languages. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:11:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2738311.netother languagesresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2738312 unknown@DZone.com Irony is a new-generation .NET compiler construction kit. It utilizes the full potential of c# 2.0 and .NET Framework to implement a completely new and streamlined technology of compiler construction.
 Unlike most existing yacc/lex-style solutions Irony does not employ any scanner or parser code generation from grammar specifications written in a specialized meta-language. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:11:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2738312.nettoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2737419 unknown@DZone.com One thing that is notably missing from ASP.NET MVC is a good way to handle forms and their validation. To resolve this issue, I started on a simple forms framework this weekend. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:45:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2737419.netframeworksProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2737421 unknown@DZone.com Great news folks, it looks like the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 has finally released, although IMHO it's more of a Feature Pack (since new features have been added as well). You'll see some greate new features like The ADO.NET Entity Framework and some new ASP.NET Extensions. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:45:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2737421.netframeworksMicrosoftWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2737425 unknown@DZone.com SubSonic is a .NET ORM (object relational mapping) tool with plenty of extras. In the ORM market, it can be compared to other tool such as Linq and NHibernate. I chose SubSonic over NHibernate, because of the ease of configuration or Linq, because I am still programming for .NET 2.0. That being said, there are three different ways to generate your data access layer using SubSonic Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:34:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2737425.netframeworkshow-toxmlProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2737297 unknown@DZone.com In this writing, I have tried to sum up some important links and points related to the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) release. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:14:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2737297.netannouncementMicrosofttoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2737182 unknown@DZone.com Discusses whether Content Management Systems area actually a good choice. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:24:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2737182.netjavaopinionphpProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2737150 unknown@DZone.com As C# has evolved over the past few years, there’s more and more to remember. You’ll find this reference card useful whatever type of C# project you’re working on, and whichever version of C# you’re using. It covers many topics, from the basics of string escape sequences to the brave new world of query expressions and LINQ in C# 3.
 
 Features include String Literals, Delegates, Declaring Events, Generics, Extension Methods, Query Expressions (C# 3), Hot Tips and more. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:42:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2737150.netProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2736815 unknown@DZone.com An internal Microsoft document viewed by SD Times cautions that "revamp growth" of .NET's libraries and a lack of coordination among concepts threaten to undermine the framework, making it less approachable for developers. Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:38:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2736815.netMicrosoftProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2736694 unknown@DZone.com Basic ORM mapper that generates objects with basic CRUD operations, sql scripts, and c# code based off tables in SQL Server 2000/2005 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:27:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2736694.netProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2736627 unknown@DZone.com I’m currently subscribed to 110 feeds and everyday the number of unread posts is going up. It seems like i just can’t catch up anymore. Of all those unread posts, a lot will be very interesting, but there will also be quite a few that won’t interest me that much. So i’m going to cut back on the number of feeds i’m subscribed to, and i’m going to rely on some fantastic links blogs to point me to the best posts. After all, these guys already spend their time and effort going through a whole lot of posts, why shouldn’t i reuse that? Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:12:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2736627.netopiniontoolstrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2736629 unknown@DZone.com A guide to writing a compiler in .NET for beginners, using Irony. Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:12:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2736629.netframeworkstoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2736354 unknown@DZone.com Digging around the Fluent NHibernate code base, and finding some hidden gems. Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:32:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2736354.netframeworksopen sourcereviewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2736336 unknown@DZone.com The article discusses 27 tips and tricks that you can use while using the GridView control. The tips and tricks have been divided in 3 parts. Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:14:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2736336.netajaxhow-toweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2735772 unknown@DZone.com An interactive Python interpreter that runs in the browser, using Silverlight 2 and IronPython. Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:36:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2735772.netpythonProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2735043 unknown@DZone.com You may have heard of Tail Recursion before, in fact, you may have even written tail recursive functions before without even knowing it. Even so, why should you care? Safety. Functional programming relies on recursive functions heavily since imperative looping structures are frowned upon. However, recursion chews up a valuable and limited resource – the stack – and can lead to an unrecoverable type of CLR error: the dreaded StackOverflow. Tail Recursion however is a form of recursion that doesn’t use any stack space, and thus is a way to use recursion safely. Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:15:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2735043.nethow-toProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2734965 unknown@DZone.com Since forever, geeks who take themselves seriously have loved to brag such things as, "I use Notepad to edit web pages". Carrying this over to actual programming, "I never click into the designer when editing my ASPX", or "I never design a database using designer tools, I always design it all using raw T-SQL," or "I always update my SVN from the command line". (Someone in a local tech user group bears the post signature, "Real men use Notepad.") 
 
 Puhleeze. I'm not impressed, and frankly I think anyone who brags like this should get a swift kick in the pants. Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:46:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2734965.netdatabaseopiniontoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2734850 unknown@DZone.com A lot of people think ALT.NET is about using NHibernate, Castle Windsor, StructureMap, Resharper, Rhino Mocks, MonoRail, or whatever tool or library you can think of. It’s really not about that. From altdotnet.org: We are a self-organizing, ad-hoc community of developers bound by a desire to improve ourselves, challenge assumptions, and help each other pursue excellence in the practice of software development. Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:20:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2734850.netmethodologytoolstrendsProgramming