Category: friday links

1. Real World: Startup Lifecycle of a Windows Azure Role
2. Utilizing the Power of Startup Tasks in Your Windows Azure Web Role | Windows Azure Customer Advisory Team (CAT)
3. Android Development: Do You Know Your Options? » BuildMobile
4. Fluqi – Ease using jQuery UI with ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC
5. SquishIt – The Friendly ASP.NET JavaScript and CSS Squisher | CodeThinked
6. loads.in – test how fast a webpage loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide
7. 35 Highly Advanced Yet Simple To Use jQuery Plugins | Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
8. gMap – Google Maps Plugin For jQuery | Download
9. FullCalendar – Full-sized Calendar jQuery Plugin
10. 8 Powerful WordPress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should | Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
11. 10 Completely Free Wireframing and Mockup Tools
12. Scale of the Universe 2012 – OneMoreLevel.com
13. LayeringPrinciples
14. svenM: Access the clipboard from a visual studio macro
15. Using Async for File Access – C# Frequently Asked Questions – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
16. Microsoft Key Tools and Resources for Microsoft Developers – Developers, Developers Developers – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
17. Visual Studio 2010 UML Design Pattern Toolbox Items Extension – Microsoft Visual Studio UK Team – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
18. What is Microdata?
19. What are Microformats?
20. ASP.NET MVC DropDownList, MultiSelect and jQuery – Ricka on MVC and related Web Technologies – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
21. LosTechies | Se Habla Code
22. Lean Startup: Look Before You Leap — Visual Studio Magazine
23. Talking to Customers: What a Concept — Visual Studio Magazine
24. 4 ways to do Mail Merge using Google Apps Script – Google Apps Developer Blog
25. GUI Architectures
26. The Build Your Own CAB Series Table of Contents | Jeremy D. Miller
27. Romcyber | ScrapySharp in english
28. What Level Programmer Are You?
29. What are your favorite Nuget MVC packages » BuildStarted.com
30. Jang a server-side/client-side view engine for MVC and javascript » BuildStarted.com
31. Razor Engine v2.x » BuildStarted.com
32. Database Performance Transparency – SQLServerCentral
33. Productive Living
34. Constraints, expectations and real estate | Jimmy Bogard’s Blog
35. Linux 2.6.39-rc3 :

    << There really are only two acceptable
    models of development: "think and analyze" or "years and years of
    testing on thousands of machines". Those two really do work.>> Linus Torvalds

1. Interviewstreet – Facebook Programming Challenge
2. Ebooks: List of our free books – Microsoft Press – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
3. Javascript and CSS Minifying/Bundling with the Microsoft.Web.Optimization Nuget package – Canadian Developer Connection – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
4. Good JavaScript Habits for C# Developers | MIX11 | Channel 9
5. Customizing Error Messages in Asp.Net MVC
6. From Concept to Code in 6 hours: Shipping my first Windows Phone App – Scott Hanselman
7. 8 Things You Ought to Know If You Do Not Know Anything About Hiring A Software Developer | 8th Light
8. dust
9. It’s not about you
10. Mythical man month : 10 lines per developer day | Patrick Smacchia
11. The world’s first computer password? It was useless, too
12. Stephen Hawking’s New PC
13. The Hungry Programmer

1. YSlow “Grade A” website with ASP.NET MVC 4 In the trenches with .NET by Harvey Kandola
2. Rob Miles – C# Yellow Book
3. Anyone over the age of 35 should read this, as I copied this from a friends status .. « Gaasedal’s Weblog
4. Raphaël—JavaScript Library
5. tompipe.co.uk | Utilising MEF to self-register HTTP modules
6. Why Stack Exchange Isn’t in the Cloud – Server Fault Blog
7. So You Want to Get a Job in Information Technology? – Server Fault Blog
8. The top 20 HTML5 games | Feature | .net magazine
9. EF 4.3 Beta 1: Automatic Migrations Walkthrough – ADO.NET team blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
10. 20 Pieces of Programming Wisdom | danielmiessler.com
11. Need a workaround to use MVC2 view page or control to generate html without controller context : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Forums
12. The Morning Brew – Chris Alcock
13. So many interfaces, part two – Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
14. Schauderhaft » Tips for Testing Database Code
15. Code review made simple and affordable | Nitriq Code Analysis for .Net
16. PatternCraft | johnlindquist.com
17. JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit
18. How I Program Stuff – Randall Degges
19. Nancy – Lightweight Web Framework for .net
20. Providing an HTML5 Date Input control with Fallback
21. The Game Bakers – Money and the App Store: a few figures that might help an indie developer
22. The Hungry Programmer
23. Stephen Hawking’s New PC

Evolution – from programmer   to CEO

www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer.html

And Haskell

http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html

Hope you understand Haskell

And books for you:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/02/recommended-reading-for-developers.html

1. Find & Purchase Data Subscriptions | Windows Azure Marketplace
2. Would A Ponzi By Any Other Name Smell As Bad? | ZeroHedge
3. Troy Hunt: ASP.NET session hijacking with Google and ELMAH
4. Troy Hunt: Free eBook: OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers
5. StructureMap and ASP.NET MVC 3 – Getting Started
6. CuBox
7. Unit Testing Myths and Practices
8. This Photograph Is Not Free
9. Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
10. Programming Isn’t Fun Any More
11. Matt Wrock’s Blog | Microsoft blogging platform gains 33% performance boost after adopting RequestReduce
12. Matt Wrock’s Blog | Adopt RequestReduce and see immediate Yslow and Google Page Speed score improvements not to mention a faster site!
13. The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code – Joel on Software
14. Developer declares ‘I am done with the Freemium Business Model’ | ITworld
15. University accuses Oracle of extortion, lies, ‘rigged’ demo in lawsuit | The Industry Standard – InfoWorld
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17. NuGet Package of the Week #10 – New Mobile View Engines for ASP.NET MVC 3, spec-compatible with ASP.NET MVC 4 – Scott Hanselman
18. The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives – Forbes
19. Everything for free, always: how Facebook ads show us the sad state of the Internet
20. Eight Different Ways to Transfer Data from One Page to Another Page
21. Stop using AutoMapper in your Data Access Code | Blog | DevTrends
22. Visual Representation of SQL Joins – CodeProject®
23. I, Interface – CodeProject®
24. MVC Techniques with JQuery, JSON, Knockout and C# – CodeProject®
25. The 11 Best Science Books of 2011 | Brain Pickings
26. Alexander Beletsky’s Development Blog: Using ASP.NET MVC Validation Mechanism without ASP.NET MVC
27. Amazon.com: The Flinch eBook: Julien Smith: Kindle Store
28. Best Practices for Handling Transient Conditions in SQL Azure Client Applications | Windows Azure Customer Advisory Team (CAT)
29. jQuery UI Development & Planning Wiki / Template-Comparison
30. ASP.NET MVC 3 and the @helper syntax within Razor – ScottGu’s Blog
31. High-Performance ASP.NET Caching — Visual Studio Magazine
32. Free Databases in the Window Azure Marketplace — Visual Studio Magazine
33. Duck Programming
34. Writing an automatic debugger in 15 minutes (yes, a debugger!) « TripleEmcoder
35. Creating Bookmarklets for Fun and Profit | Think Vitamin
36. Math doesn’t suck, you do.
37. – tatiyants.com
38. A geek with a hat » Why programmers work at night
39. ASP.NET MVC + Selenium + IISExpress
40. SQL Azure Performance and Elasticity Guide – TechNet Articles – Home – TechNet Wiki
41. 6 Books Every Programmer Should Own
42. 10 Websites On How To Be A Better Programmer
43. A Professor explained Marketing to MBA students « Pulkit Arora
44. 91 Ways to become the Coolest Developer in the World « Pulkit Arora
45. Orchard Project
46. Extensions – Ninject
47. Chapter 1 – Welcome to the Library
48. Microsoft in 2011: How 13 Big Developments Shaped the Tech Giant
49. HTML EMAIL BOILERPLATE v 0.5 updated 11/5
50. Conditional Filters in ASP.NET MVC 3
51. ASP.NET MVC Diagnostics Using NuGet
52. Conversion from type ‘Object’ to type ‘String’ is not valid. : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Forums
53. How I Lost, Regained and then Turned Down an MVP Award – .NET & Funky Fresh – Devlicio.us – Just the Tasty Bits
54. Projects | code.nasa.gov
55. Progressively enable the mobile web with ASP.NET MVC 4, HTML5, and jQuery Mobile | BUILD2011 | Channel 9
56. Code First Migrations: Beta 1 ‘With-Magic’ Walkthrough (Automatic Migrations) – ADO.NET team blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
57. Code First Migrations: Beta 1 Released – ADO.NET team blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
58. Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012 – Dorie Clark – Harvard Business Review
59. Signs that you are a bad programmer (Bad Programmers)
60. This is why I don’t give you a job – Andor Jakab
61. A Shiny New Me • HTML5 Boilerplate In Visual Studio 2010
62. 9GAG – Can live with them can’t f**k without them

1. Dan Ariely: How to Pay People – Businessweek
2. Matt Wrock’s Blog | Unit Testing ASP.Net Http Handlers and a discussion of Auto Mocking and the Testable pattern
3. Simple Producer Consumer With Tasks And .NET 4
4. QUnit layout for JavaScript testing in ASP.net MVC3
5. Using QUnit with Razor Layouts
6. Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
7. HTML5 Forms with ASP.NET MVC and MvcContrib.FluentHtml | User InExperience
8. Licensing and Maintenance Terms – PostSharp
9. Really silly things to do with C# expression trees | Ryan Rauh’s Blog
10. Csajoknak! Egy ruha, tízféleképp | Nemkutya.com
11. Home: The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site
12. Nadeem Afana’s blog · ASP.NET MVC 3 Internationalization
13. Amazon.com: The Flinch eBook: Julien Smith: Kindle Store
14. 5 ways to view documents online without signing up | Tech Tips
15. Writing an automatic debugger in 15 minutes (yes, a debugger!) « TripleEmcoder
16. Some guidelines for a first time MVC developer : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Forums
17. Dumping Objects Using Expression Trees – Paulo Morgado
18. InfoQ: Domain Driven Design Quickly

1. 7stacks | Alastria Software
2. WebSequenceDiagrams.com – Draw and Edit Sequence Diagrams in seconds
3. Custom remote Validation in MVC 3 : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Forums
4. jQuery Time Entry with Time Navigation Keys – Rick Strahl’s Web Log
5. MSDN Blogs
6. Article Viewer
7. AutoCollage 2008
8. Framework Design Guidelines Digest v2 – Krzysztof Cwalina – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
9. Portable Library Tools – Visual Studio Gallery
10. Kodu – Microsoft Research
11. Moodle.org: Download standard packages
12. First, Understand Your Screen « James Pearce
13. Tyranny of the Tools
14. 9GAG – How to Teach Yourself Programming
15. Don’t Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
16. The World According to LINQ – ACM Queue
17. Dropdownlist with check boxes or multi-select (mvc3/jquery)? : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Forums
18. Chosen – a JavaScript plugin for jQuery and Prototype – makes select boxes better
19. FUCK PASSWORDS – Blog – December 2011 – veekun: fuzzy notepad
20. 9GAG – Trust me, I’m an engineer
21. Custom Basic Authentication for RESTful services – Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax)
22. InterKnowlogy Blogs » Blog Archive » ASP.NET Universal Providers
23. Custom Basic Authentication for IIS
24. Geek Sheet: Bare-metal backup and recovery | ZDNet

1. Razor View Engine in MVC 3
2. Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining « Uncrunched
3. Navigating OData and WCF Data Services – CodeGuru
4. The right tool for the job | Growin’ up
5. 10 things to love about Windows 8 | TechRepublic
6. Open Source.NET — Visual Studio Magazine
7. ASP.NET Wire Format for Model Binding to Arrays, Lists, Collections, Dictionaries – Scott Hanselman
8. 9 Things That Motivate Employees More Than Money | Inc.com
9. Easier Is Better Than Better – Smashing Magazine
10. Asynchronous Programming – Pause and Play with Await
11. Asynchronous Programming – Easier Asynchronous Programming with the New Visual Studio Async CTP
12. Asynchronous Programming – Async Performance: Understanding the Costs of Async and Await
13. ASP.NET: Prevent IIS 7.5 from overriding custom error pages with IIS default error pages | Jan Jonas’ blog
14. T4 Templates: A Quick-Start Guide for ASP.NET MVC Developers – Web Development Tools @ Microsoft – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
15. Free eBook – Razor View Engine in MVC 3 – Greg’s Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day
16. Expression Tree Serialization – Home
17. Why Many Developers Hate ASP.NET… and Why They’re Wrong | Nettuts+
18. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2011UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx

1. FOODS
2. LINQ Between Operator – Stack Overflow
3. Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager – GeekWire
4. Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – Tournament-Database
5. Chess This Is Sparta!!
6. Five Absolutely Essential Utilities that make Windows better – Scott Hanselman
7. MongoDB vs. RDBMS Schema Design
8. How Mature Is Your Continuous Integration? « James Betteley’s Devops Ramblings
9. UK unemployment: Meet the British bosses who say ‘give us foreign workers every time’ | Mail Online
10. Attempting to solve the INotifyPropertyChanged problem – simoncropp’s posterous
11. SQL Server 2012 RC News – Nick MacKechnie – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
12. SirSQL.net – Blog – Your "Five Nines" Means Nothing To Me
13. You Guys Are Millionaires Right? | Shifty Jelly’s blog of mystery

1. Introduction to PRISM – Online Training Course for .NET Developers
2. Free Databases in the Window Azure Marketplace — Visual Studio Magazine
3. Download: {0} – Microsoft Download Center – Download Details – Windows Azure Platform Training Kit
4. The Secret to Success at Work: Stop Working | Psychology Today
5. Author Guidelines – SQLServerCentral
6. How can I display the result of a View in a popup window? : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Forums
7. Razor, Nested Layouts and Redefined Sections – Marcin On ASP.NET – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
8. Convert text into PDF using ASP.NET and C# – CodeProject
9. How to handle errors in ASP.NET MVC | jgauffin's coding den
10. Rands In Repose: How Can I Help You?
11. WhatsNewNET45-en.png (PNG Image, 4448×3145 pixels) – Scaled (26%)
12. jgauffin's coding den – Thoughts and ideas about architecture and programming (in c#/.net) | jgauffin's coding den
13. Quote by Marilyn Monroe: "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I ma…"
14. Being IN in LINQ to SQL – Or How I learned to Love Contains (aka Getting Linq to SQL to generate a T-SQL WHERE clause that includes an IN) – Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day
15. Everything SQL Server Compact: SQL Compact 3rd party tools
16. unfinished work – I Believe In The Internet – The Content Industry Doesn't
17. .NET Framework Libraries
18. Founder's Blog – Jitbit: "90% of your users are idiots"
19. Founder's Blog – Jitbit: Go Get A Cofounder [Mistakes I Made #5]
20. Using T4 to generate Configuration classes
21. Using T4 to Auto Generate web.config Files | Fryer Blog