Best practice for software development

Almost more than 3 years since i’ve been part of projects run by Agile, i had the chance to participate it in different roles and places in the whole project lifecycle, starting from Developer passing by being an Technical Lead, Business Analyst, Team leader, and finally a Project Manager. It was absolutely a long journey with good, bad...

Java Web Application Frameworks

A comparison of the most popular Java Web application frameworks: Refer to this link for more detail: www.googlevolume....

Visual Studio Themes

Spice up your IDE… whatever your motivation - nostalgia or just the desire to be different. Visual Studio has the handy feature of allowing you to export all of it’s settings to an XML (.vssettings) file. This allows you to export font, color and text editor settings. I have scoured the internet looking for examples of visual studio settings...

T4 Templates

T4 Templates (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) is a code generation engine in Visual Studio.David Hayden (from Patterns and Practices) show how use T4 Templates.T4 Editor is a fully integrated into IDE, offering you support for colorization of the different T4 template parts.Resources: refact.blogspot....

Patterns & practices for Web Services

Microsoft has published Web Service Software Factory, it is designed to help you quickly and consistently construct Web services. Tools, patterns source code and guidelines.Designing ASMX and WCF messages and service interfaces.Applying exception shielding and exception handling.Designing business entities in the domain model.Translating...

Performance comparisons LinQ to SQL

CodeProject article comparing performance using ADO and LINQ technologi...

NArrange

NArrange is a tool that organize your .net classes.Some features highlight features :Reduces the amount of time developers spend arranging members within code files.Helps enforce coding style standardsGroup similar code members into predefined region blocksReduces the amount of time spent searching for specific members in a code fileNArrange...

Clone Detective

Clone Detective is a add-in for Visual Studio. This pluggin allow you localize duplicate code in your projects.Duplicate code is the number one reason for refact your code.See Clone Detective in action.Resources: refact.blogspot....

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) version 4 is published.MEF is a library to build extensible applications (Plugin Pattern).Provides a standard way for the host application to expose itself and consume external extensions.Offers a set of discovery approaches for your application to locate and load available extensions.Allows tagging...

15 Opensource Blog Tool and Publishing Platform

1. Wordpress WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. Needless to say that it is the most popular among all publishing platforms available. 2. Serendipity Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives...

Creating your own site's search Engine

Setting up you search page for your web application is as easy as having a DB table where you retrieve data from by a simple query. I will illustrate the steps of setting up the configurations needed in this post, and will write another one for detailed stuff in custom search page. So lets start. Setting up your Search Index start>run>...