Advanced ASP.NET MVC

Learn how to extend the ASP.NET MVC framework with dependency injection, view engines, action filters, and more. We’ll see how to apply Test Driven Development and write unit tests with mock objects.

The WTFs of a non-relational design in a relational database

Here are some facts about the Vision system:

• The data model comprised a single table named DATA.
• The DATA table had 240+ columns.

this application was something new, and that the way it stored data and metadata in the database would revolutionize computing

You are in a world of hurt. It takes six months to train a new maintenance person and a database consultant," waving at me, "says that the simplest of reports can only be created with the greatest difficulty using the most low-level reporting tools." He stood up, walked to the white board, picked up a pen, and wrote:

"RUN LIKE HELL!"

http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/opinion-pieces/bad-carma/

NDC 2009 Videos

Mark Nijhof has created a list of presentations from the Norwegian Developers Conference 2009, that featured some of the best speakers around in the field of software development.

Here are some selected presentations. For the full list, see Mark's blog.

Tim Huckaby
Jump into Windows Presentation Foundation! ...and Become Immediately Effective

Scott Hanselman
The Haacked and Hanselman Show

Ted Neward
Why the Next Five Years Will Be About Languages

Ayende Rahien
Building Scalable Systems

Michael Feathers
Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design

Jonas Follesø
MVVM Patterns for Silverlight and WPF applications

Udi Dahan
Intentions and Interfaces - Making Patterns Complete

Phil Haack
Black Belt Ninja Tips ASP.NET MVC

Robert C. Martin
Clean Code: Functions

Jeremy D. Miller

Lessons Learned from a Long Lived Codebase

Rafal Lukawiecki
Architectual use of Business Intelligence in Application Design

Peter Provost
The Butterfly Effect

Roy Osherove
Understanding Test Driven Development

Jimmy Nilsson
Is Domain-Driven Design more than Entities and Repositories?

Kevlin Henney
Sustainable Software Architecture

Sql Antipatterns

Presentation by Bill Karwin (from the MySQL Conference & Expo)

Sql Antipatterns Strike Back

View more documents from Bill Karwin.

Geotargeting With Google Webmaster Tools

Use Webmaster Tools to set geotargeting if it's not given by the TLD. E.g www.europe-for-australians.com.

Writing for the Web

Get rid of half the words on each page,
then get rid of half of what’s left
– Krug’s third law of usability

"Happy Talk Must Die" - Steve Krug, "Don't Let Me Think"

Some good resources for writing on the web and copywriting:

Charlie Morris http://wdvl.internet.com/Internet/Writing/
Jacob Nielsen http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/
Daniel Will-Harris http://www.efuse.com/Design/web_writing_basics.html

Copyblogger, Copywriting 101: http://www.copyblogger.com/copywriting-101/

Also see William Strunk, Jr. (Classic from 1918 http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk5.html

Content with your content - Copywriting for websites

View more documents from Anne Macindoe.

Video interviews with Uncle Bob aka Robert C. Martin

Software guru Robert C. Martin has some really interesting views on being a software professional and TDD: A developer that is not testing his code is like a doctor that doesn't wash his hands before examining the patient.

http://www.programutvikling.no/podkast