Lately my manager here at The Center for Learning Innovation shared some eBook links and i have already finished reading some of them. Most of them regarding best software development practices and application performance. I found them very useful and thought you would also like them. I would highly recommend this books for developers who has just started object oriented design and want to adopt best practices in this field. No matter in which platform you work, it will definitely enrich your arsenal to fight against different development challenges. 

• Foundation of Programming - http://codebetter.com/media/p/179694.aspx
• Applying Design Patterns - http://amazedsaint.blogspot.com/2009/06/software-design-patterns-for-everyone.html
• SOLID Development Principles - http://www.lostechies.com/content/pablo_ebook.aspx
• 31 days of Refactoring - http://www.lostechies.com/media/p/27197/download.aspx

You are probably aware of the following eBooks from Microsoft, they are pretty big (to be honest, i have read only some chapters) but worth reading if you are working in .NET 

• Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ce40e4e1-9838-4c89-a197-a373b2a60df2&displaylang=en
• Microsoft Application Architecture Guide - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8A2E454D-F30E-4E72-B531-75384A0F1C47

Thanks to Refky, for sharing those with me and I hope you will like them.

 

Hello guys

It has been a long gap actually, i was so busy with some official tasks as well as with some unavoidable domestic duties, i could not actually manage to find some spare time to write or share anything.

Last few months at work, we were involved in some R&D  regarding Mobile Application Development and its feasibility about how it can be integrated with some of our services there. As part of this, i spent a lot of time learning Objective C for iPhone and later i was involved in a very interesting jQuery related project. I will try to share some of my very early finding about Objective C soon. Then i got some spare time and tried to figure out what the upcoming HTML 5 has to offer. As you know, there is not much to learn about  HTML5 and its sematics, as part of getting my hand dirty with HTML5, i thought to redesign this website using HTML5.

For those who is interested in HTML5, the following links can be very helpful.

• http://diveintohtml5.org/
• http://www.html5demos.com/
• http://html5doctor.com/

If you are a visual studio fan like me, you may want to figure out how to make intellisense work in visual studio for HTML 5.  Try this link then.

• http://www.devcurry.com/2010/10/html-5-intellisense-in-visual-studio.html

I hope it helps.

I have spent couple of hours today to get rid of this error while trying to run an application for debugging from Visual Studio 2008. As it turns out to be a unusual error to me, i though to write down the solution to this problem so that it can help others to save their precious time (probably to do some other exciting stuff!!!).

When i first saw this error, i cleaned the solution, restarted Visual Studio. I have even restarted my PC couple of times but with no avail. Then i google it and found some articles where the authors indicated that if there are any operations cause modification to the folder or file structure of the solution, it may happen. But it was not my case, as i was trying to run a simple console application without any pre or post build event.

Then as a trial, i have reset my visual studio settings and bang... it started working normally. Don't ask me anything what caused this problem, i have no idea what modified my visual studio settings but resetting the visual studio settings did the trick for me.