Items of Interest: 2006.04.03

Posted on April 3, 2006 at 14:02

5 Tips for Enjoying the Software Development Profession – Dennis Forbes outlines what he considers some essentials for professional developers. He includes explanations, conclusions, and the message for a manager (assuming that managers are interested in keeping their employees happy)
Upcoming ASP.NET Releases in April – Included on the list are goodies like a control pack for ATLAS (with source code), VS 2005 Web Application Project, CSS Code Adaptors (get to that CSS programatically through ASP.net!) and more Data Tutorials
ASP.NET Performance Case Study: Web Service calls taking forever – Tess runs through a real case where a web-service was hanging. Goes through the debugging steps, analysis and solution
SecurePasswordTextBox – A textbox that uses the SecureString class – Paul Glavich provides an ASP.net textbox control that implements the SecureString class
Standardista Table Sorting – Javascript that will sort a table without reloading a page. Very cool stuff, easy to implement. Check out the demo. (Link via Help.net)
A revisit to a tiny C# shortcut – Edgar does some research to follow up on an earlier post. It turns out that the fastest way to find out if a string is null or empty is string.Length > 0.
Some practice interview questions – From Mike Stall (the name says it all)
The State of Online Feedreaders – Frank from TechCrunch analyzes nine different online feedreaders, comparing features and overall usability.

Ellis Web