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What a fun book to read! The term Micro-ISV describes a small software organization, often with less than a handful of employees, that nonetheless is able thrive and prosper in an Internet driven market place. Examples of Micros are Sourcegear, Fogcreek Software and even Bob’s own company. That point brings me right to one aspect […]

James at Skilljam pointed this one out to me:
The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to:
– Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page.– Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques.– Selectively […]

I have a feeling that the adoption of VS 2005 will happen sooner than the conversion of so many databases in corporate America to SQL 2005. To that end here is a nice little article by Muhammad Mosa that describes SQL Cache Depencies with ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2000.
Personally I am concerned about the […]

Phil had some time on his hands and ended up making some very insightful comments about our profession and tools.
Its true, there are a number of non-MS tool that can be helpful – Trac was new one for me. Wiki-based project management and bugtracking that integrates with Subversion. Sounds very nifty.  Why does it seem […]

Not all Unit Testing of Web Applications needs to use Ruby / Watir. One of Scott’s buddies used a tool that I had blogged about some time ago. Interesting.
 
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Just some links for Michael Schwarz and Ajax.NET. I noticed there is now a Google Newsgroup for it. The QuickGuide may get your feet wet, but one of my own favorites is the Special Example, especially the caaching example.

Scott pointed to this tool. - a Watir recorder for Ruby by mjtnet. Wish I had the time to work with it. Link here

Daniel Zeiss – with such good German organization – compares 6y different Ajax frameworks. The part thats really an eye opener is just how slow and bloated Atlas really is.
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Different phases of a company’s growth require different infrastructure tools. When you work in a distributed setup with only a few people like Phil then perhaps a tool such as gotvmail would come in very handy. At some point your company may actually open a central office and have several people working at that central […]

Amir posted this sample on code projecct. Even though English is not his first language, Amir managed to describe the pertinent details of his chat appication. Good job!
TCP/IP Chat Application Using C# - The Code Project - C# Programming

Frans pointed out that one of his customers had written a book. I followed the link and stumbled across Lulu. Very interesting I must say. Books are printed on demand, the entire process is set for small runs. If it works, I like it a lot. Joseph Chancellor, the gentleman whom Frans blogged about mentions […]

The Immediate mode of the Command window is used for debugging purposes such as evaluating expressions, executing statements, printing variable values, and so forth. It allows you to enter expressions to be evaluated or executed by the development language during debugging. In some cases, you can change the value of variables. The Immediate mode now […]

Mike has a nice quick article on Developers.com about url remapping. As always, well written and useful.
In an ideal world, we’d design our Web applications perfectly the first time. Pages would be created in the proper folder and stay there. For that matter, end users would never care about the URLs of the pages […]

Cache Manager is an ASP.NET plug-in which can be added to any ASP.NET website with no code, no recompile, a single DLL, and a single entry in web.config. It allows web administrators to monitor and manage the ASP.NET Cache object for their ASP.NET applications.read more