I've added SVN - the free open source Source Code Control tool to the Current Top 10 List. 

Sadly, this means I've had to bump XpathMania to the "That Was Then..." list. 

I find myself doing a bit less XML lately, and I needed to bump something, so that got chosen.

So I've found that some people really are using this site and checking for updates!  OMG :)  I wasn't even monitoring the logs...

And, I'm doing a little talk at the "15 Minutes of Fame" edition of our local Philly.NET user group next week.  So...

I'm going to add a tool to the list.  But that means I have to bump one down.  So I needed to re-organize a bit since I didn't want to just delete the demoted tool's article.

Unfortunately, this means a little "link-rot" for the site.  I'll lose some Google Juice - but obviously I'm not in it for that anyway...  So I'm creating a bucket for the deprecated tools, and one for the current tools.

Enjoy!

I saved the two "big ones" for last.  I can't wait until tomorrow!

1) Interfaces Everywhere (my article)

2) NDepend (home link) - (my article)

See you at Code Camp!

I've added a writeup about CodeRush/Refactor.  (home link) - (my article)

While I've used probably all of the big Visual Studio Addins, I have to say that CodeRush is the most polished.  Certainly it's the prettiest :)  See what you think...

Enjoy!

This article shows off two great Debug Visualizers for Visual Studio, and provides many links to articles and other debug visualizers.

Covered in detail are:

1) Conchango Xml Visualizer (home link) - (my article)

2) Visual Studio 2005 Control Visualizer (home link) - (my article)


There are 10 links at the end to other debug visualizers and articles on creating your own.

Enjoy!

Tonight I've put up my "Blogs, News, and Links" page.  On this page I'll post introductions to sites that I think would be of interest to .NET developers.

For now, this includes two sites:

1) DotNetSlackers (home link) - (my article)
2) DZone (home link) - (my article)

Enjoy!

Two more items were added today, again in the tools category:

1. MbUnit (home link) - (my article)
2. TestDriven.NET (home link) - (my article)

I hope you enjoy the writeups!

The first three items have been added today - all of them in the tools category:

1. The Firefox Web Developer Toolbar (home link) - (my article)
2. XPathMania (home link) - (my article)
3. Gimp (home link) - (my article)


If I do two more tomorrow, then one more each day of the week, I'll have all ten ready for the Code Camp next Saturday!

I'm going to be giving a talk at the upcoming Philly.NET User Group soon, entitled

"Travis' Top Ten Tools, Tips, and Tricks."

I thought a site would be nice so that the attendees would have a handy place to gather their links after the talk.  Who knows?  I might even maintain this site going forward....

An even loftier goal would be to actually blog each of the ten items I plan to cover BEFORE the event.

I'm still trying to narrow down the list to 10 items I can cover in about 8 minutes each :)  My candidates so far include:

Tools:

MbUnit
TestDriven.NET
CodeSmith
CodeSmart
CodeRush/Refactor
XPathMania
NDepend
Firefox: Web DeveloperToolbar
PostSharp
Gimp

Tips:

Interfaces Everywhere
Stub Implementations
Custom Attributes

Websites:
    Blinklist

Blogs:
    DotNetSlackers
    DZone


Books:
    Coder To Developer
    Prefactoring
    Head First Design Patterns

Tricks:

Marker Interfaces
Custom Debugger Visualizers