Yesterday I had some problems with sleeping, so, I thought I should do something useful. I opened my browser and favourites and my Gmail box and started typing to my MCAD course group and my close friends. I think I should put that here - after removing some parts of course! ;-)
Lets start...
Remember all the hussel online about
AJAX stuff ? Maybe some of you have already got a book written about it. Some might have got into the whole
ATLAS ? thing. Now I come to give you some more stuff I think is really cool:
There's also some great
.NET and
C# FAQs (covering v1.1 and v2.0) on
Andy McMulla's web home (as he calls it himself). Well, I have to admit I don't know about this guy, even his blog seems not so full (after all, better than mine!), but, I read the FAQs and think you're really going to like them.
As
C# geeks, I'll forward you to the best places to get the insiders' .NET tips, tricks, optimizations using our beloved language of choice: The
"Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium" weblog maybe the first to start with. Eric is a great
Microsoft Developer, MSDN Mag. columnest, and, book author. In the blog you'll notice that he's also a bign Regex and WS/Remoting fan. He's also responsible for MSDN
Officiel C# FAQ. The next weblog is
"C# Tea Time" by another Eric, Eric Maino (that's the 2nd one if you haven't noticed yet!) is a great guy from the VC# team, he doesn't write a lot and his blog is kind of new, but he can tell you about the
C# events and chats by MSDN, and, he can tell you
what the Microsoft VS teams are doing right now after whidbey is over (don't worry, this is not the next version code-named ORcas, but, a mid milestone called "MQ").
My favourite on this is
Abhinaba Basu's weblog, our guy this time is from
Microsoft India Development Center (Yes, it seems that
Microsoft is doing some heavy work in India, it even has a
Channel9 tag for the many videos taken there). The guy is mostly focused on OOP and C#m what are the best practices that come from an OOP point of view and make the best use of
C# power (with many code snippets and so); he also taks about Team System (and MS Build - if I remember right). Another similar great posts come from another
Microsoft India Development Center guy
Sriram Krishnan's weblog with a bit less
C# posts (yet great ones) and quite inteseting other topics like database programming, earch engines, and more.
Another interesting cool talks (C#, .NET, SEO, and such in-blood topics) come from Jayson Knight
weblog and
website. Once more, don't know about they guy but his posts are so cool and useful, just like the other family man, Mike Pope, whose
weblog is one of the coolest, funniest, and very useful ones you may find online. He talks abut everything all the technical bla bla bla (language/framewrok/etc) things (including the web/ASP.NET/IIS issues), job oriented talks, and references more great resources whenever posible. another blog of those that really rock.
Hmm, let's give some real world talk. No one of you has moved to
ASP.NET 2.0 as a primary choice yet (Has any ?). So, I thought I should give you some help! MSDN has a
Step-By-Step Guide to Converting Web Projects from Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003 to Visual Studio 2005 of course including web projects. Keyvan Nayyeri has
some great .NET 2.0 links that should interest you (Don't know much about they guy except that he has
another blog that really rocks).
For those who played with VS2005 BETA2 (and maybe still stuck with it, like ME), you may need to be careful about the Visual Studio and .NET 2.0
Breaking Changes from Beta 2 to RTM published by TheServerSide.NET.
Now, as we all are into patterns and best practices, I won't speak a lot about MSDN
Patterns and Practices for VS 2005, but want to tel you about very nice patterns article on code project called "Design Your Soccer Engine, and Learn How To Apply Design Patterns (Observer, Decorator, Strategy and Builder Patterns)" (Soccer = football - for those who didn't know that before, and I'm one). The article is in 4 parts entirely divided into 2 pages (part
I,II ,
III,IV) and has all the needed declarative UML diagrams in Visio format. Some of you may consider that too basic, but, for myself I find them more than great. BTW, the code doesn't use generics or anything so, and, uses VS2003 solution files format, we can say it's for .NET 1.1.
Before I get to the end of this. Just thought some of you will like
an article on compression in .NET 2.0 (2.0? Again!!!) This is from
Nasir Ali Khan Weblog. Nasir is one of the best Pakistanis technical bloggers (Yes, there are quite some nice
Pakistanis bloggers!).
Hmm, I've to go now as I'm already toooo late for univ.
Most Regards,