30 June 2009
How to make Firefox and Cassini fall in love again
I’ve been using Firefox as my default browser of choice long before i started with .net development. Even with latest IE8 developer tools and debugging support i still find Firefox/Firebug most flexible combination in client-side web development. But, one thing kept bothering me throughout whole time... Read More...
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27 June 2009
Code Camp 2009 follow-up
On June 13th, our .net user group has organized by far the biggest developer event in Macedonia – Code Camp 2009 . It was a real pleasure to see so many developers ( according to organizers around 130+ attendees) at one place, and all with strong reason – 5 out of 6 presenters were MVPs, some of them... Read More...
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31 March 2009
Visual Studio : How to work with different tab settings per project
I started working on a new project which has a "slightly" different environment settings than the usual coding standards in my company. Namely, we use insert spaces as coding guideline, while the new project uses keep tabs as option for indenting. Tabs/Indent size is the same as default - 4... Read More...
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31 December 2008
Best of 2008
An interesting year came to an end. I'm usually not a fond of a "top N" or "best of best" and other sort of lists, but there are some interesting key events that marked the year 2008 in my eyes and i want to share that view with you. So dear readers, here is my list of top 3 events... Read More...
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01 November 2008
DevReach 2008 - Two Thumbs Up!
I attended the conference for the first time this year - and I liked it! The conference : What impressed me the most was a noticeable shift toward Agile methodologies, in particular TDD . Although such intention was first promoted with VS 2005 Team System (MSF Agile Pack comes to my mind) this is the... Read More...
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28 September 2008
jQuery & Microsoft
I'm sure for most of you this is already old news - but for me this is The news of the day: Microsoft is going to make jQuery part of the official dev platform. jQuery will come with Visual Studio in the long term, and in the short term it'll ship with ASP.NET MVC . We'll also ship a version... Read More...
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18 September 2008
Registry read on 64 bit Vista
Couple of days ago i upgraded my desktop (actually changed it) from Vista Business 32 bit to 64 bit one. Except for the fact that it provides me more memory, i was happy to dive into the world of 64 bitness . One thing that got me aware that I'm on a new platform was a simple registry read from my... Read More...
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17 September 2008
Maintenance problems - svn to the rescue
The case : Maintaining web project that is in production for over a year. The problem : Blocking bug on production server The solution : Checkout of the latest release revision, bug fix, test and deploy. Problem solved! This looks like a really simple approach to solving maintenance problems. However... Read More...
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28 July 2008
The future of .net
Couple of days ago i listened to one of the more interesting and funnier podcast from .NET Rocks! - Future of .NET Panel at DevTeach Toronto . The tile is intriguing enough, the speakers are know to me from various sources and i feel nothing but respect for all of them. Highly recommended. The shows... Read More...
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08 July 2008
Jazoon '08 impressions
Update: You can see the keynotes for yourself now thanks to parleys . Just search for jazoon08 tag. Two weeks ago i attended Jazoon - Java conference in Zurich, Switzerland. Although the conference was all about Java and Java-related technologies it was really useful for me as a .net developer to be... Read More...
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14 June 2008
One of those [Dev]Days
Four days since the first developer days e.g. DevDays 2008 event happened, and i still don't see any reaction in our (small but growing) .net community. No blog post, forum opinion, nothing. One can get impression that event like this never happened . And i am, on the other hand, still under strong... Read More...
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04 June 2008
Read it
There are tons and tons of software development books out there, and each year this number is rapidly growing. It is clear that ordinary developer can hardly cope with such an excessive offer. With this in mind, the question is simple: "What should i read? Which title will give me the most comprehensive... Read More...
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28 April 2008
Blog concept
So i got me a blog. Nice. I was planning to do so for some time now, and the whole "avalanche" with .net user group helped this idea to come to its realization. Now that i'm here, i'm asking myself: What should i write about? Best practices (from my daily work) In our day to day work... Read More...
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