My Favourite Tech Articles

13 May 2012

• Migrate from Basic to MVVM and MEF Composable Patterns for a Silverlight Application [Silverlight/WPF]
• LeeCampbell: Introduction to Rx Part 1 - Key types [rx/async]
• Diving deep with WinRT and await [rx/async]

11 May 2012

• Recording the git commit hash in your assembly with TeamCity | Richard Dingwall [configuration-management]
• How to make WPF behave as if MVVM is supported out of the box [Silverlight/WPF]

29 April 2012

• Weak Events in .Net, the easy way [.net]
• WPF Compatibility [Silverlight/WPF]
• WPF Threading Model [Silverlight/WPF]
• Plotting Circular Relationship Graphs with Silverlight [Silverlight/WPF]
• Is MapReduce going mainstream? [.net]

23 April 2012

• Design-time Data in Expression Blend 3 « Rob’s Tech Blog [Silverlight/WPF]
• Design-Time Attributes in the Silverlight Designer [Silverlight/WPF]
• Behaviors and Triggers in Silverlight [Silverlight/WPF]

20 April 2012

• d:DesignInstance, d:DesignData [Silverlight/WPF]

14 April 2012

• Reactive Extensions v2.0 Beta available now! [rx/async]
• KnockoutJS vs. Silverlight [Silverlight/WPF]
• INotifyPropertyChanged, The .NET 4.5 Way – Revisited [Silverlight/WPF]

30 March 2012

• Writing a complex custom configuration section - CodeProject® [.net]

22 March 2012

• IQueryable Can Kill Your Dog, Steal Your Wife, Kill Your Will To Live, etc. [.net]

17 March 2012

• More advanced attached property use: the Ramora pattern [Silverlight/WPF]
• The Nito.MVVM (WPF) Library: Commands [Silverlight/WPF]
• UIElement.Measure Method [Silverlight/WPF]
• How to: Launch the Debugger Automatically [.net]
• Changing Panels and DataTemplates with ItemsControls in WPF/Avalon [Silverlight/WPF]
• Attached properties - the basics [Silverlight/WPF]
• 6 Things I Bet You Didn't Know About Data Binding in WPF [Silverlight/WPF]

11 March 2012

• http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=208528 [rx/async]
• Understanding “Dispatcher” in WPF [Silverlight/WPF]

8 March 2012

• ItemsControl: A to Z « Dr. WPF [Silverlight/WPF]

6 March 2012

• Async Samples Silverlight [rx/async]
• (not yet) 101 Rx Samples - Reactive Framework (Rx) Wiki [rx/async]

4 March 2012

• XAML Syntax In Detail [Silverlight/WPF]
• XAML Overview (WPF) [Silverlight/WPF]
• Using the Builder Pattern in tests [architecture]
• Learning JavaScript Design Patterns [javascript]
• Rx, TPL, Async CTP–Oh My :-) [.net]
• Dependency Property Value Precedence [Silverlight/WPF]
• Composing Applications with Silverlight and Prism [Silverlight/WPF]
• JavaScript: Warts and workarounds [javascript]
• .NET Debugging Demos [debugging]

4 February 2012

• Using Git with Subversion [configuration-management]
• Trees in WPF [Silverlight/WPF]
• The Trello Tech Stack [web]
• WeakReference: GC knows the Best [.net]
• Resources for getting started with Backbone.js [web-development]
• PropertyDescriptor AddValueChanged Alternative [Silverlight/WPF]
• Compiled XAML = BAML not IL [Silverlight/WPF]
• Twelve Ways to Improve WPF Performance [Silverlight/WPF]

1 February 2012

• Debugging Native memory leaks with Debug Diag 1.1 [debugging]
• From jQuery to JavaScript [web]

28 January 2012

• .NET WeakReference: GC knows the Best [.net]

7 January 2012

• Git vs. Mercurial [configuration-management]

3 January 2012

• Structuring Unit Tests [.net]

31 December 2011

• Inversion of Control Containers - Things Every Senior .NET Developer Should Know, Part 3 [architecture]
• SOLID - Things Every Senior .NET Developer Should Know, Part 2 [architecture]
• Things Every Senior .NET Developer Should Know, Part 1 - Object-Oriented Programming [architecture]

19 December 2011

• OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers [security]

11 December 2011

• SilverZine Resource - 20 useful Expression Blend tips & tricks [.net]

6 December 2011

• Configuring Visual Studio to Debug .NET Framework Source Code [.net]

2 November 2011

• Dynamic Proxy Tutorial [.net]

7 October 2011

• Console Application to discover Effective Named Pipe Path of a WCF net.pipe Endpoint [.net]
• Named Pipes in WCF are named but not by you (and how to find the actual windows object name) [.net]
• Under the Covers: Launching a ClickOnce Application [.net]

29 September 2011

• Back to Basics: 32-bit and 64-bit confusion around x86 and x64 and the .NET Framework and CLR [.net]

24 September 2011

• Script# [.net]

10 September 2011

• Thou Shalt Not Lie: git rebase, ammend, squash, and other lies [configuration-management]
• Fiddler In Action [web]

23 July 2011

• How to: Launch the Debugger Automatically [.net]
• Programming the Thread Pool in the .NET Framework [.net]
• Threading in C# - Free E-book [.net]

22 July 2011

• A successful Git branching model » nvie.com [configuration-management]

19 July 2011

• Linus's Clean Git Commit History Advice [configuration-management]
• A Rebase Workflow for Git | RandyFay.com [configuration-management]
• Avoiding Git Disasters: A Gory Story | RandyFay.com [configuration-management]

17 July 2011

• git: fetch and merge, don’t pull « Mark’s Blog [configuration-management]
• Git User’s Manual (for version 1.5.3 or newer) [configuration-management]

9 July 2011

• Code rant: The First Rule of Threading: You Don’t Need Threads! [.net]

6 July 2011

• Prefix or Posthack [web]

21 June 2011

• What is a Digital Signature? [security]

28 May 2011

• WCF: Duplex Operations and UI Threads - CodeProject [.net]
• When to avoid CQRS [architecture]
• DOT NET TRICKS: Internals to C# iterators [.net]

14 May 2011

• PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know [.net]

13 May 2011

• Why I Still Love CQRS [.net]

5 February 2011

• In The Brain of Udi Dahan: DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, NServiceBus [architecture]

15 December 2010

• Ten C# Keywords That You Shouldn’t Be Using [.net]

13 October 2010

• Mocks, Stubs and Fakes: it's a continuum [TDD]
• C# 4.0 - New C# Features in the .NET Framework 4 [.net]

23 September 2010

• Covariance and Contravariance FAQ [.net]

26 July 2010

• Stop the war between NUnit and MSTest : Make them friends [.net]
• Custom Exceptions: When should you create them? [.net]
• SOLID Principle Episodes [architecture]

27 May 2010

• .NET Design Patterns in C# and VB.NET - Gang of Four (GOF) [.net]

26 May 2010

• Design Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries [.net]

25 May 2010

• Don't Return List, return IEnumerable []

11 May 2010

• PageRank sculpting with NoFollow [web]

10 May 2010

• Prabir's Blog | Dependency Injection (DI) – Hello World with Ninject [.net]

5 May 2010

• Linq to Sql, Programming Against an Interface and the Repository Pattern [.net]

1 May 2010

• MongoDB vs. SQL Server 2008 Performance Showdown [nosql]

29 April 2010

• Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky []

28 April 2010

• HTML5 presentation [web]

25 April 2010

• The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB - Oh My! [nosql]

4 March 2010

• Web Forms vs ASP.NET MVC [.net/MVC]
• Blue Green Deployment [deployment]

23 February 2010

• 101 LINQ Samples [.net]

19 February 2010

• CSS Selectors [web]

8 February 2010

• Code Renaissance: WPF and Expression blend - a marriage of necessity [.net]

14 December 2009

• HTML 4.0 Entities for Symbols and Greek Letters [web]

11 December 2009

• ADSL PPPoA/PPPoE/MTU Sizes [networking]

6 December 2009

• CSS Assigning property values, Cascading, and Inheritance [web]

9 November 2009

• Good and Evil in the Garden of Stored Procedures [architecture]
• CodeProject: Dude, where's my business logic? [architecture]
• Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition [architecture]

22 October 2009

• RAM, Virtual Memory, Pagefile and all that stuff [operating-system]