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Have you ever asked, "Can the same techniques and tools be applied when debugging Silverlight and .NET applications?" The answer is "absolutely"—with just a few caveats. Mario Hewardt, author of Advanced .NET Debugging, shows you how to leverage the information in his book to debug Silverlight applications.

Cause-effect diagrams are a simple and pragmatic way of doing root cause analysis. Henrik Kniberg shows you how cause-effect diagrams work, so you can put them to use in your own context.

Distribunaut is a framework agnostic port of the mack-distributed package. In this chapter from his book, Distributed Programming with Ruby, Mark Bates shows you how to install and use it.

In celebration of the 15th Anniversary of Design Patterns, we continue to share the thoughts of leaders in the field. This week, John Crupi and Russ Olsen offer their thoughts on Design Patterns.

John Crupi on the 15th Anniversary of Design Patterns
Russ Olsen on the 15th Anniversary of Design Patterns

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Jim Mischel introduces the idea of Source Control Management, explains why you should use it and what kinds of things you should put under management.

In this week's Heading for Deprecation: export, Exception Specification and register, Danny Kalev discusses the fate of these three features and the reasons for deprecating them.

Steven Haines continues his Wicket example this week by starting to build a real-world application using Wicket. In this example he demonstrates how to markup different HTML elements with Wicket tag attributes to populate them with dynamic content, how to define and manage links, and how to repeat HTML content using the ListView component.

Buck Woody is big on database design tools, but he prefers free options to the one included inside SSMS. He thinks he's found a pretty good fee tool, though, and this week he gives a full rundown of DBDesignerFork and how he's using it.

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By Luca Bolognese