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Visual Studio 2010 Keybinding Posters

Jake Hackl — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:52:54 +0000

Microsoft published keybinding (in other words shortcuts) for Visual Studio 2010 last week as ScottGu blogged about. I downloaded my letter-size low-res copy for C# and as I looked at it I chuckled a bit because I remembered when those keystrokes meant other things in the COM and VB6 days WHICH then made me think how Microsoft Office did such a great job of reusing its keybindings over the years. As a matter of fact when I use excel for data scrubbing or templating soem batch file or powershell commands Excel will basically tell me “Tsk, tsk; these days we don’t use that keybinding but for you I’ll still perform the functionality” To which I say, “Cool, why change”.

Download details: Visual Studio 2010 Keybinding Posters.

My personal reference point:

VS-KB-Brochure-CSharp-Letter

Post calls with REST and .NET

Jake Hackl — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:54:53 +0000

Have a client application that needed to post some referral sales data to a third-party via REST. I did this a long time ago and had to do a refresher course and these were two of the better posts I used for the final implementation. With all the .NET movement towards REST and yesterday’s post about Code-first development with Entity Framework 4 I have to admit that Microsoft is adapting the demand of developers (or the marketplace). There is still a vast gap until it catches up the speed of RoR in development but they are each distinct tools so that day may never come.

Those rest posts:

http://developer.yahoo.com/dotnet/howto-rest_cs.html

http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2009/02/14/posting-data-to-a-rest-service-using-c.aspx

InfoQ: Architecting TekPub – Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails

Jake Hackl — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:13:38 +0000

Everytime I read another post about the simplicity and affordability of moving to Rails I go hmm; this time I’m going HMMMMM!

InfoQ: Architecting TekPub – Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails.

IIS Compression in IIS6.0

Jake Hackl — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:57:32 +0000

One of my clients business is audio sales via cd-burning and downloading through retail kiosks as well as remote fulfillment via web orders (phew – say that four times fast). It is an interesting business that I’ve been working with for 4.5 years. Besides the content role I’ve had that included CDN management, transcoding, SAN management, audio ingestion, database strategies and what not I’ve recently inherited an ASP.NET site. The site is receiving more business support and our team is working to add features, do a redesign and I’m also doing little tweaks that will help spruce up its performance.

The first item on my list was to implement compression on the site. The web server hasn’t been upgraded to IIS7 yet and I’ve long forgotten how to use compression with IIS6. The best resource I found was Scott Forsyth’s post on it (IIS Compression in IIS6.0 – Scott Forsyth’s Blog – thanks Scott). One item I didn’t do on the first implementation was add js and css files into the static file list so I’ll be doing that as well.

Up next is introducing URL rerouting to deal with dynamic content. I just have a hunch that using domain.com/artist/beyonce will be better than domain.com/artist.aspx?artistguid=dkfjdsfkjf. That obviously relates to SEO and after the URL rerouting is in place we’ll go through the results of a IIS SEO Toolkit examination as well as combing through the YSlow results.

A redesign is coming as well and I wish I there was a reason to convert it to a MVC app but it just doesn’t seem prudent.