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The 1st anniversary of the blog (Part II): Results

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Now we’ll talk about my favorite part, about results. In general, we will walk through the decisions taken by me when I created the blog and discuss some future plans. Read more

The 1st anniversary of the blog (Part I): Statistics

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On this day, a year ago, I wrote the first post in this blog. Many changes were made during that time. Today I decided to talk about results and share plans for the future. Read more

The book review: Developing Microsoft SharePoint Applications Using Windows Azure

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In the O’Reilly Blogger Review program I decided to write a review of Developing Microsoft® SharePoint® Applications Using Windows Azure™ by Steve Fox. As the title hints, the book introduces the basics of the development of SharePoint solutions for Windows Azure operating system. Generally, I liked this book even though it has some drawbacks. Let’s talk about it in more detail.
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Boosting Stackoverflow.com

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If you are readers of my blog, then you know that I write a lot of ORMs. Naturally, I could not miss a post of Sam Saffron about developing by him own lightweight ORM called Dapper. For those who do not know Sam, I want to point out that he is one of the key developers of Stackoverflow. In addition, before he wrote the post it was known about Stackoverflow’s architecture that it was included the Linq-to-Sql. This is the main reason why I, like other developers, began to study the source code for Dapper. As it turned it a little, or rather just one file. Perusing it I thought whether it can be done even faster or not? Boost Sam’s code was not simply too high quality it was written. Results are in this post.
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MIXing impressions

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Last weeks were just crazy. One of significant events, of course, was the MIX 11. The conference, which is waiting for Windows developers around the world, because the Microsoft tells here about further development of tools and services. In this post I will share my impressions of what I saw, or rather watched (unfortunately, this year I could not get to go).

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What is your developer’s position?

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“I seek Senior Developer position” – something like this begins Objective section in most CVs. The point is not that a company is looking for a developer precisely on such position and that the developer appreciated not only themselves but also other developers of this company, when he wrote his CV. In today post we will describe how to make this assessment developers and recruiters.
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