Remember to hug a developer today ! General DateTime vs. DateTimeOffset In .NET 3.5 : In part one of his two part series on working with dates & times in .NET 3.5, Dan Rigsby takes a look at the new DateTimeOffset structure. TimeZone vs. TimeZoneInfo In .NET 3.5 : In part two, Dan takes a look at...

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General Red Gate Buys Reflector : Lutz Roeder's Reflector - the best free .NET development tool of all time - has been purchased by Red Gate Software. They say that it will remain free...let's all hope that it does. Web Development jQuery Animation Jump : Ever notice that subtle jump at the end of your...

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General The Tortoise And The Hare : Tim Barcz has a must-read post comparing enterprise development to the fable of the tortoise and the hare. As someone who's been dealing with this sort of cycle for the last few years, I couldn't agree more. Diligent developers should be striving to be the tortoise...

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Probably the biggest news of the week is that SQL Server 2008 RTM'd this week, and is already available on MSDN. A word of warning...if you have Visual Studio 2008 installed, you're better off waiting until Monday when SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 ships. General The Onion Architecture Part 3 : In this...

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General The Onion Architecture Part 1 : Jeffrey Palermo proposes a new architectural pattern that is based on how components are coupled to each other. The Onion Architecture Part 2 : Jeffrey Palermo continues his presentation of the Onion Architecture with a practical example. How To Review NHibernate...

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This week is the TDD edition of the web nuggets. This week I've been getting my feet wet with some practical TDD...and loving it! A number of the links this week were a big help in pointing me in the right direction. Test Driven Development Getting Started With TDD : Steve Smith writes about getting...

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General Lessons That I Learned From Waegis : Keyvan Nayyeri shares the lessons he learned from launching Waegis , a spam filter for web sites. Don't Mix Using Statements And Lambda Expressions : Jared Parsons explains why you do not want to mix using statements with lambda expressions. Nullable<T>...

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General Kill Your Users Table : Rob Conery isn't afraid to ask the tough questions - do we really need to store users' data? With services like OpenID , where the user has complete control over their data and what they present to a site, it's certainly an intriguing idea! Conventions-Based Binding Using...

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Happy 4th of July! General First Impressions of Rhino Mocks 3.5 Beta : Derik Whittaker takes a look at the beta of Rhino Mocks 3.5. One of the major new features is that the syntax has been updated to take advantage of the new language features in .NET 3.5. Configuring Eclipse on Windows to Use With...

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How many times have you been connected to a remote computer via RDP, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del, just to be greeted by the Windows Security popup on your local computer. Unless you are using an RDP client that supports sending the Ctrl-Alt-Del to the remote computer, you're out of luck...or are you? As it turns...

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