General
- Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers: Kevin Pang has an extremely accurate list of developers' top annoyances.
- Handling Passwords: A great article for both the beginner and expert about securing passwords.
- SQL Server 2008 - Introduction To The Merge Statement: Pinalkumar Dave introduces us to the MERGE statement in SQL Server 2008 which can combine separate INSERT, UPDATE, & DELETE statements.
Web Development
- Protecting Your Cookies: Jeff Atwood takes a look at one of the easiest ways to secure your cookies - mark them as HttpOnly.
- ASP.NET Preview 5 Form Posting Scenarios: Scott Guthrie takes a closer look at the new form posting abilities in the latest drop of ASP.NET MVC.
- How To Use The ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder: Melvyn Harbour shows how to use the new ModelBinder in ASP.NET MVC to bind incoming data to your object parameters.
- Partial Rendering & View Engines in ASP.NET MVC: Brad Wilson takes a look at the partial rendering capabilities of ASP.NET MVC.
- Watch Out For Date Kind In JSON Deserialization: Rick Strahl has some good advice when dealing with dates in JSON.
- Developer Tools In Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2: It's still no Firebug, but there's some incremental improvements to IE's development tools.
Software
- Google Chrome: Undoubtedly the biggest bomb this week was Google releasing Chrome, the long-fabled GBrowser.
- ASP.NET MVC Preview 5: Phil Haack announces the latest drop of ASP.NET MVC.
- ReSharper 4.1: Finally...a patch release!
