Git!

I mentioned in my last post about BBC’s Glow framework source code being hosted with Git/GitHub. Well Rob Conery the creator of the excellent ORM Subsonic has posted a blog post and video on how to get started with the Git version control system.

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BBC Glow JavaScript framework released.

Surprisingly the BBC have released an open source JavaScript library called Glow. The difference between this and other JavaScript libraries is that the BBC’s library looks like it supports older or ‘Level 2’ browsers. Source Code Documentation Demo’s On a side note the BBC are using Git and GitHub to host the source code. I really must have a play with Git as a source control provider.

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Today is jQuery day!

The more I use jQuery the more I like it but one thing that would really help is intellisense in Visual Studio. Well that is actually possible it seems after reading a really helpful post that explains how to actually make that happen. The same guy that wrote that post (who’s RSS feed has now been added to my every expanding Google Reader subscriptions list) has also written a cool post that explains how to...

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Scott Guthrie - ASP.NET MVC Special Event

I’m off to Microsoft in Reading on Friday to see the ASP.NET MVC session by Scott Guthrie. Fantastic stuff! Still 86 places available as well….

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ReSharper 4.1 Released

Jet Brains have a minor point release to one of my favourite productivity tools ReSharper. Since installing it I have noticed that my memory footprint for devenv.exe is much much smaller and the whole IDE and coding experience feels noticeably snappier with Visual Studio.NET 2008 SP1. Hopefully I will notice the same benefits when I next switch back to coding with Visual Studio.NET 2005. For further details on the release you can visit the release...

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