Pick of the week: Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes
General
- Two Tips on Preparing for the Cloud: Scott Watermasysk shares two excellent tips on how to prepare for running in the cloud.
- Die, You Gravy Sucking Pig Dog: In addition to an entertaining title, Jeff Atwood takes a look at what explicitly disposing objects gives you.
- Using Adobe Flex in Visual Studio: Matt Wicks shows how to use Ensemble Tofino, a free plugin for Visual Studio, to build Adobe Flex applications.
- How to Calculate Network Utilization in .NET: Keyvan Nayyeri shares how calculate you network utilization.
- No More Excuses of Missing Indexes with Activity Monitor in SQL Server 2008: Bill Ramos shows how the Activity Monitor in SQL Server 2008 can suggest indexes based on usage.
- Avoid Object Initializers & the Using Statement: Oren Eini points out a bug (or apparently a ‘feature’ according to someone at Microsoft) in the C# compiler when you use object initializers on an IDisposable object created in a using block.
- Windows Azure – Breaking it Down: Justin Etheredge breaks down Windows Azure, which is actually composed of a number of different services.
- Understanding Azure Tools – The Real Starting Point: Bruno Terkaly provides one of the first start-to-finish tutorials on how to create and post an application to Azure (with screenshots!).
- An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows: Git is the new, sexy hotness in the DVCS world, and for those (millions) of us on Windows, here is a wonderful tutorial!
Web Development
- jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation: Congratulations to the jQuery team with this latest release! There’s some really good stuff in this release, including formal organization of the project. Be sure to check out the release notes for some outstanding performance numbers! One thing I’d like to highlight in the benchmarking is how horribly IE6 performs across the board – death to IE6!
- Asynchronously Download Content in Silverlight 2: A good article showing how to download various types of content efficiently using Silverlight.
- Ignoring Favicon.ico in ASP.NET MVC: Scott Watermasysk found an interesting edge case in ASP.NET MVC where the favicon could cause problems.
- Real World Apps in Days not Weeks: An entertaining post by Scott Hanselman about how using ASP.NET Data Services can save the day if your requirements fit. How much work does it save? According to Scott, ‘a metric ass-load’! :)
- Why ASP.NET Developers Should Care About Windows Azure: Stephen Walther highlights & explains some of the benefits of the Azure platform, especially in relation to ASP.NET developers.
