General Development In DotNet

"Basically, I've been aware for a while that some people use the terms currying and partial function application somewhat interchangably, when they shouldn't. It's one of those topics (like monads) which I feel I understand to some extent, and I've decided that the best way of making sure I understand it is to try to write about it. If it helps the topic become more accessible to other developers, so much the better."

"A new release of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is available on Feb 6th. We expect that its 8 new code samples covering typical programming scenarios in Windows Azure, Directory Services, Hyper-V, TFS, WDK, and Windows SDK would ease your development work."

(Better than the official TopShelf documentation) "I am creating windows services using Topshelf for a while and I forget how "hard" (not that hard but harder) it was to create a windows service without Topshelf."

Great way to access private properties on an object at runtime.

"Kanban is becoming very popular for a lot of great reasons. However, the more people who try it means the more people who will do it completely wrong then blame Kanban for their mistakes and project failures. Like countless tools before it Kanban will suffer the blame of many for their own mistakes. Here are a few ways my teams and I have attempted to give Kanban a bad name, hopefully these examples will keep you from falling into similar traps."

"No matter what kind of software you write, no matter what size company you work for, you probably have to provide estimates to someone. They may want to know how long the effort will take or how much it will cost. But no matter how you slice it, estimation is critical skill and essential to the success of any software development effort of any size or consequence."

"When ASP.NET receives a request for a page, it grabs a thread from a thread pool and assigns that request to the thread. A normal, or synchronous, page holds onto the thread for the duration of the request, preventing the thread from being used to process other requests. If a synchronous request becomes I/O bound-for example, if it calls out to a remote Web service or queries a remote database and waits for the call to come back-then the thread assigned to the request is stuck doing nothing until the call returns. That impedes scalability because the thread pool has a finite number of threads available. If all request-processing threads are blocked waiting for I/O operations to complete, additional requests get queued up waiting for threads to be free. At best, throughput decreases because requests wait longer to be processed. At worst, the queue fills up and ASP.NET fails subsequent requests with 503 "Server Unavailable" errors."

Very handy quick references!

"Here is a sample code that returns the current trust level, assuming this code (or the calling code up the stack), is not loaded from GAC:"

"If a directory within an ASP.net website is deleted while the site is running, this causes the whole site to reboot, loosing any session data and logging out users."

" This is a blog post I've been meaning to do for a while, and I've recently noticed some info on the web about checkpoints which is a little misleading, so I want to do a quick post to explain how checkpoints work as far as log records are concerned. "

"This is an informational document. Although technical in nature, it attempts to make the concepts involved understandable and applicable in real-world situations. Because of this, some aspects of the material are simplified or omitted, for the sake of clarity. If you are interested in the minutia of the subject, please explore the References and Further Information at the end."

"Programmers take certain features for granted - sequential programming for instance, writing down an algorithm that does one thing after the other. RelatedVendorContent State of Agile Development Survey Results & Summary Architecting the Ultimate Service Security Control Point 2010 Open Source Integrity Report: Defect Scan of 291 Key Projects Including Android Kernel DataPower: Messaging, ESB, Cloud, Security as an Appliance The Agile Tester However, if you're writing code in Javascript that uses blocking I/O or other long running operations, sequential coding is out of the question because blocking the only thread in the system is a very bad idea. The solution is to implement algorithms using asynchronous callbacks, ie. spread out sequential code over multiple callbacks."

"Douglas Crockford is Yahoo!'s JavaScript architect and a member of the committee designing future versions of the world's most popular programming language. Over first three months of 2010, Douglas delivered his acclaimed series of lectures on the history of JavaScript, its features, and its use. Links to video, transcripts, and photos from each of the events follows:"

"Everyone seems to think that they are writing OO after all they are using OO languages such as Java, Python or Ruby. But if you exam the code it is often procedural in nature."

"Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. "

"A demo of AD Gallery - Coffeescripter.com"

"Raphael JS is a lightweight and super-sexy JavaScript framework that allows you to draw vector graphics in your browser! In this tutorial, I will introduce you to some basic drawing functionality, take a look at animation, provide DOM access and finally finish off by creating a cool widget for your site…"

" These are icons I drew for my personal needs. They are all in vector and drawn on this page with Raphaël (don't forget to zoom the page). I was thinking that they could be useful for other people and, although the design quality of icons is average, I am releasing them here under MIT licence. "

"We have identified a vulnerability in the Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) used to issue digital certificates for secure websites. As a proof of concept we executed a practical attack scenario and successfully created a rogue Certification Authority (CA) certificate trusted by all common web browsers. This certificate allows us to impersonate any website on the Internet, including banking and e-commerce sites secured using the HTTPS protocol."