When you think about building a startup in your spare time, one of the biggest barriers to that, particularly if you're a .NET developer is that you're going to have to spend a lot of money to …
The Top 5 Best Visual Studio 2012 Features
I love Visual Studio releases. I remember when 2005 came out when I was in college, and while everyone else was writing their projects in C++, I was using C# and VS 2005. I asked my professor if I …
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Why You Should Build Your Website Using Static .html Files
If you've got a website, then chances are it's built using a CMS. You know, Wordpress, Orchard, Joomla, DotNetNuke. Why wouldn't you? They let you manage all your content on nice admin screens and …
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Automating Daily Status Reports with Project Server and Team Foundation Server
In the past, I've had managers who have asked me for a daily status report of all of the items I've worked on during the day...every single one. They essentially said if it's not documented that it …
ShoelaceMVC, My Newest Open Source Project – ASP.NET MVC 3 Starter Project for Building Fast AND Production Quality Webapps.
I recently came to the conclusion that I needed a MUCH better starter project for building ASP.NET MVC applications. You see, I'm not a designer. I just don't have those skills. I can make things …
Will XNA be available in Windows 8 Metro Apps?
One of the big things I've seen flying around Twitter lately is the question of whether or not XNA is being depricated or faded off into the sunset or whatever. I can understand how if you base your …
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