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General

• What Makes a Good Unit Test: Mark Needham has some good pointers on making your unit tests shine.
• The Problem With Logging: Jeff Atwood shows how easy it is to abuse logging and what the repercussions are of doing so.
• Fluent NHibernate’s AutoPersistenceModel: Chris van de Steeg shows how to use Fluent NHibernate to generate your persistence mappings automagically!

Web Development

• The Fat Controller: Ian Cooper shares his experiences and thoughts about how to help your controllers maintain a healthy weight.
• ASP.NET MVC Beta Obscurity: Scott Hanselman dives into the ASP.NET MVC source code to reveal a subtle behavior that is probably not so uncommon to run across.
• Have You Ever Wondered Why CodePlex is So Slow?: Dave Ward takes a close look at a specific feature of CodePlex that is slowing the site down, despite what appears to have an easy fix.
• Using jQuery with ASP.NET – Part 2: Rick Strahl has posted the second part of his jQuery and ASP.NET series. This installment focuses on making ajax callbacks to the server.
• Silverlight Install Experience Best Practices: Tim Heuer highlights how Netflix put a considerable amount of thought and effort into the install experience for their streaming service.