Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Thursday, December 10, 2009

DataBind

With nothing of particular note to bulk up this entry, I'm hoping to later collect all my knowledge on data binding into one post...

The Links...

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Lifehacker Roundup

And lastly, from the Network Lights site: http://www.itsamples.com/index.html - the best part? They provide source code for a lot of stuff.

Stuff it, instead of consecutive posts for this stuff, I'll just build up this week's...
And the fun continues on Thursday...

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Debugging Tools And Fun, Erm...

Some useful links if you're trying to find web dev debug tools:
Of course, deploying your DLLs in debug mode can help your logging, but release mode is going to provide at least 4x performance improvements. If you attach a profiler for checking memory usage or performance, you can leave your .pdb files up to get more information as these contain the .NET symbols used for inspecting the code. Please don't leave them there, as they are a serious security consideration - in short, if a hacker were to copy your pdb files from your server they've effectively stolen everything but the source code:
Here's some profilers that don't involve installing Visual Studio on a live server (always a bad idea):
There are, of course, sites out there for providing information about your site:
Of course, if you're intent on debugging in Firefox (www.firefox.com, of course) you should have:
Some tools for developing your code (essentially, my favourites, as there are tonnes, Microsoft's list notwithstanding (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300497.aspx)):
And a list of developer must-have's: