Its the time of year again (for us in the US) to stuff ourselves even more than usual. I love turkey and all the other traditional Thanksgiving foods. Its a day where I tend to lose all self control.
I'm thankful for the following things (.NET related):
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The program I use the most by far. I use it in nearly every new project I start. It has saved me an incredible amount of time over the last year. Its all about finding ways of being more productive and eliminating CRUD. I spent too many years coding SQL right into my pages. Bad times. I can't say too many good things about SubSonic. Its worth using now just to be ready for when its included in some later version of dotnet.
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The site and the open source software. I've been visiting DotNetKicks.com for most of this last year and I consider it to the leading resource for everything dotnet. I love the site and I love the open source software powering it. I liked it so much that I started my own site, ConservativeKicks.com, with it. It was a pain to get going, but it was well worth it. It also uses SubSonic so its easy as pie to deal with on the backend.
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I use this software for this blog. It was very simple to setup and get going. It has all the features I need and it just works. I suggest giving it a try if you're looking for a good blogging engine. It doesn't use SubSonic, but I'm not looking for an application that I'll need to customize too much. I just want to hit start and write. BlogEngine.NET does that very well.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Be safe and have fun. See you all after the holiday.