Pick of the week: HTML Validation – Does It Matter?

General

• DVCS and DAGS, Part 1: Eric Sink illustrates an underlying difference between typical version control systems like SVN & Vault and distributed version control systems like Git & Mercurial.
• Fast Late-Bound Invocation with Expressions Trees: Nate Kohari shows how you can use expressions trees instead of reflection-based invocation to speed up dynamic method calls.
• Dynamic Delegates with Expression Trees: Rick Strahl follows up Nate’s post on late-bound invocation with some intriguing benchmarks.

Web Development

• 43,439 Reasons to Use append() Correctly: Josh Powell demonstrates how misusing the .append() function in jQuery can dramatically affect performance.
• Using Silverlight for Workflow Creation: Tim Heuer takes a look at some very neat Silverlight tools for building workflows.
• ASP.NET MVC Domain Driven Design: Nathan Stott begins a series of posts that will walk us through using domain driven design patterns in ASP.NET MVC.
• 3 Quick Steps for a Painless Upgrade to jQuery 1.3: Karl Swedberg highlights the most prominent issues that people are experiencing when they upgrade to jQuery 1.3.
• Silverlight Guidance – Whitepapers on SEO, Security, & Media: Tim Heuer directs us to some valuable Silverlight resources.