Wagnerblog

My collection of interesting links has been growing for weeks and I haven’t had the time to post them. So here they are in one massive list.

Daniel Zeiss is on rev 9 of his major Ajax framework comparison. Great stuff.
Today I installed ScrewTurn Wiki in 10 minutes (as opposed to an hour for [...]

Thomas and Josh are stoked about the IoC pattern found in the Castle framework project. As a result of their excitement they’ve posted a nifty little example on The Joy of Code.
I have had IoC incorporated in our PathNet framework for over 2 years now. It is very useful – even though the naming [...]

I’d like to invite you to keep an eye on Dr. Tools and Mr. Hacks. Look to it for some irreverent treatment of some of the more sacred cows of our industry. For example buzz words that confuse people. The inaugural post deals with one of the more sexy topics d’jour – Inversion of Control [...]

“…Cool so when the President dies you can take his place ? “  – my daughter’s comments upon reading my title (VP) in an email signature line….

A very funny Wiki discussing programming.
Sahil Malik writes about web parts. (I still haven’t done anything with them yet)
Jeff Prosies has some nice tips on ASP.NET performance
Streamlined [...]

Via Jason Haley – WebServiceStudio, a small utility program that can be used to test web services interactively. Might be fun to try out.
Poor Man’s Camtasia . Yes Software produces a screenshot animation tool that costs only $50..00 and can be used to produce software demo’s and training snippets.
AJAX and the market saturation of [...]

A few weeks ago I blogged about my dissappointment with CodeSmith. At the time my buddy Dan suggested that it would be easy to write a replacement using Eclipse and a couple of other free tools available in the Java world. It appears that may not even be necessary. Today I came across TahoGen which [...]

Today I came across Milan Negovan’s test of provider patterns and the time one might save in instantiating it from a cache.
Why even go there? The system I’ve worked with recently that utilized providers all over the place simply instantiated them via a singleton that loads when the app starts. ( I love [...]

OK just call me a linkaholic. I look at my blog as a reference tool as much as a soap box thatI can stand on and espouse my wisdom. So here are some more links – this time from Rob Caron.
Love it!
Link here

101 Samples, in both Visual Basic and C#, featuring many of the new features available with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0.
Lets hope the link doesnt get stale. Just as they did in VS 2003, here are some samples for VS 2005. Funny thing is I never used the 2003 ones. They kinda [...]

Roy Osherove discusses the uses of Enterprise Services (Transactions) in a database connected test scenario. The idea is that restoring even a small SQL Server db to a nown state before each test can take a loooong time. So…. transactions to the rescue. Nice idea. Read More