Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Code profiling and documentation made easy

Code profiling and documentation made easy: "Use the essential Sandcastle XML reference wallchart to effortlessly generate all your .NET code documentation."
Michael Sorens has written a remarkable guide to taming this remarkable tool, containing detailed walk-throughs, and helpful tips, as well as information on automation and troubleshooting. Even better, he's condensed the essential guide to Sandcastle (and Sandcastle Help File Builder) XML documentation comments into a fantastically detailed wallchart, which is yours to download.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Tools

These are great times for front-end developers. After months of exaggerated excitement about HTML5 and CSS3, the web design community now starts coming up with CSS techniques that actually put newly available technologies to practical use instead of abusing them for pure aesthetic purposes. We see fewer “pure CSS images” and more advanced, clever CSS techniques that can actually improve the Web browsing experience of users. And that’s a good thing!

In this post we present recently released CSS techniques, tutorials and tools for you to use and enhance your workflow, thus improving your skills. Please don’t hesitate to comment on this post and let us know how exactly you are using them in your workflow. However, please avoid link dropping, but share your insights and your experience instead. Also, notice that some techniques are not only CSS-based, but use JavaScript, or JavaScript-libraries as well.

The article: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/12/50-new-useful-css-techniques-tutorials-and-tools/

Faster Web Pages Using CSS/JavaScript Minification and Consolidation: ASP Alliance

Faster Web Pages Using CSS/JavaScript Minification and Consolidation: ASP Alliance

Abstract
About 70-90% of the time spent waiting for a page on the average web site is actually due to the number of HTTP requests required for images, JavaScript, and CSS files! A key step in improving load times is reducing the number of these requests. Another is reducing the amount of information that has to be transmitted. This article explains how to minify and consolidate CSS and JavaScript files.

4 .NET 4.0 Libraries You *Should* Know Better – MEF, Reactive, Tasks and Dynamic : Amazedsaint's .net journal

4 .NET 4.0 Libraries You *Should* Know Better – MEF, Reactive, Tasks and Dynamic : Amazedsaint's .net journal

In this post, I’ll consolidate few posts on four .NET libraries/frameworks, that’ll help you write better apps

7 Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programmers and Architects : Amazedsaint's .net journal

7 Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programmers and Architects : Amazedsaint's .net journal

Thursday, October 7, 2010