SEO Tips for Developers : Site Structure

Continuing in this series of tips for improving your search engine goodness, we’re going to take a look at some tips to designing the structure of your site so that it is friendly for our robot/spider friends. Easy to Read … Continue reading 

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SEO Tips for Developers : Page Speed

I have been paying a good amount of attention to Google search engines since I started at my current job almost 3 years ago. Working on a public web site has more of a need for creating a robot friendly, … Continue reading 

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Chris’ Year in Review 2009

Last year on this day, I wrote a review of 2008 and some goals for 2009. I had not yet started blogging for Los Techies yet, but that started at the beginning of the year. Looking back on those goals, … Continue reading 

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Pablo In Print

Because of things like feed readers, many of you reading this may not visit the LosTechies home page very often. I just wanted to share with you that Jason has posted some links to print articles and/or books that our … Continue reading 

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Practices of an Agile Developer

Before I was even finished reading “Practices of an Agile Developer” by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt, I realized that it was going to exceed my expectations. I consider a lot of the practices in which I’m engaged in daily … Continue reading 

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Will Git Drive Open Source Contribution

I know I’m not alone when I say that I’ve been hearing a lot more about Git lately. I have talked to others that have expressed interested in moving to Git and dropping use of Subversion. Now just to properly … Continue reading 

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Actually Querying with the Specification Pattern

In my previous post, I talked about using the specification pattern for querying collections. I didn’t actually show any code that does what I was talking about, I just showed the set-up and creation of specifications. The following is how … Continue reading 

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Using the Specification Pattern for Querying

The specification pattern is great for adhering to the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). The reason it can be so powerful is that it encapsulates one piece of logic, and nothing more. I’ve decided to come up with some code that … Continue reading 

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I’m A Lucky Programmer Too!

  A while ago, I read “Lucky to be a Programmer” and while it sums up my feelings exactly, I wanted to continue the conversation of some additional thoughts on this same topic. There’s a lot of reasons I consider myself … Continue reading 

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jQuery Validation and ASP.NET MVC Forms

  We have a standard that is part of our definition of done that includes adding client side validation to any page that contains a form. We always require server side validation, but I really like this standard since I’m all … Continue reading 

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