Nov 07 2011

Cool Learning Sites

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It's been a while since I posted, but I recently learned about a couple cool sites dedicated to technical training that I wanted to hang onto to look at later

http://teamtreehouse.com/
  • This site covers
    • Web Design
    • Web Development
    • iOS development
 
http://www.codecademy.com/
  • This site covers
    • Programming basics
    • The DOM and JQuery
    • Javascript functions
    • Javascript basics

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Jul 28 2010

nothingbutdotnet Follow up

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Developer Habits: http://blog.jpboodhoo.com/GettingStartedLearningSomeNewDeveloperHabits.aspx

BDD - Behavior Driven Development
Machine.Specs
RhinoMocks

Automate where possible

Code to Contracts
- Responsibility Assignments
- Dependency Injection

Generics
Lambda Expressions
Delegates

Design Patterns

Code Katas
- http://codekata.pragprog.com/
- http://codekata.pragprog.com/2007/01/code_kata_backg.html

Motivational videos: http://www.ted.com/
- http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html

Book list: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A3I87PTP778EZ0
- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
- Pragmatic Programming

- Object Thinking (good to get your head into objects from procedural coding)
- CLR via C#

 

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Apr 21 2010

Mercurial Links

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Download Mercurial (this is an all-in-one download - everything you need to get started) 
http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/download/index.html

Guide to Branching in Mercurial
http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-mercurial/

 

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Mar 26 2010

Online .NET IDE

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Thanks to Jesse, my co-worker, for pointing this slick tool out to me.

You have got to see this...

http://www.coderun.com/ide 

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Jan 25 2010

CSS3 example

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The following effect was done exclusively with CSS. View using a webkit browser (Chrome/Safari)

http://www.zurb.com/playground/css3-polaroids

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Nov 16 2009

ASP.NET MVC information

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http://www.asp.net/mvc/

NerdDinner MVC Tutorial

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Nov 12 2009

Article on Flattening WSDL to Improve Interoperability

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http://blogs.thinktecture.com/cweyer/archive/2007/05/10/414840.aspx

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Nov 06 2009

Tools for setting up SSL in IIS on your developer PC

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http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WCF/7stepsWCF.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/fai/archive/2009/04/17/granting-permission-to-certificate.aspx

FindPrivateKey
Load Balancing with WCF
Command for creating a cert: 
makecert.exe -sr LocalMachine -ss My -a sha1 -n CN=MyServerCert -sky exchange –pe

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Oct 29 2009

Configuring Visual Studio to Debug .NET Framework Source Code

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Here are the setup instructions for debugging into the framework for VS2008 and .NET 3.5.

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Oct 26 2009

Building RESTful Web Services with WCF

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 Articles:

Blogs and other items of interest:

WCF Starter Kit
WCF REST: The WCF REST Starter Kit is a set of .Net Framework classes and Visual Studio features and templates that enable users to create and access REST-style Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services. These services are based on the WCF web programming model available in .Net 3.5 SP1. The starter kit also contains the full source code for all features, detailed code samples, and unit tests.

Miscelaneous WCF

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