Pick of the Week: Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive
General
- Array, Collection, & IEnumerable<T> Usage Guidelines: Dave Kean has some good guidelines for using the different collection classes.
- The Azure Service Bus: Good content about one of the subtle, yet powerful, components of Azure – the Service Bus.
- Continuous Integration Builds – Do’s and Don'ts: Igor Brejc has some good guidelines for your continuous integration builds.
Web Development
- Intellisense for the Spark View Engine: Louis DeJardin shows off some delectable screenshots of intellisense for the Spark View Engine…totally…freaking…awesome!
- Some Thoughts on Oxite: Rob Conery writes about his impressions of Oxite, Microsoft’s sample ASP.NET MVC application.
- The Perfect Storm Botnet: In another awesome post, Rob Conery explains how some of the nastiest botnets in the wild use simple XSS attacks to claim their victims, and how an easy Html.Encode can help prevent them.
- ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery & Upcoming View Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate: Long title, but good content! Scott Guthrie shows off the new Design Gallery, as well as some very, very nice improvements to look forward to in the RC of ASP.NET MVC!

