Didn't see your [Dapper] reply before I submitted mine. I use Dapper as well, for the primary reason that you mentioned, it's insanely fast!

Dapper [by Stackoverflow guy(s)]. I love it. Small, straight to the point. I only need it for executing stored procedures, and/or getting results back via stored procedures.

I second the Git and BitBucket recommendation. I use it for all of my personal projects. You can access it from any computer, and you can also make code changes directly from your browser (I do this while I'm at work and need to make a quick bug fix). I know there's a bit of a learning curve with Git command line, so look for some GUI options like GitExtensions, or something like that.

Dapper is considerably faster than EF. And I also believe that it was written BY Stackoverflow. GitHub - StackExchange/dapper-dot-net: Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net[^]

I'm currently using nHibernate with FluentNHibernate. I like it, for easy queries from tables. Having said that, I'm trying to get rid of it and switch to Dapper. My website has gotten way to complex for nHibernate queries. I have to do anywhere from 3 to 30 SEPARATE calls to the database just to get all of the data for my view model. That's AWFUL, and one of the huge downsides to non-asynchronous ORM's. At my work, we use an ORM-lite, similar to Dapper. It is AWESOME! You write all of the stored procedures to access all database information, it's fully asynchronous, AKA FAST! I recommend something like Dapper.

iOS app called NextDoor ?

At work, TFS for our C# code. SVN for our iOS/Phonegap code. At home Git via BitBucket. Previous job we used Git with JIRA. I'll say this, Git (although can be difficult for some when using command-line only version) paired with JIRA was phenomenal. I love JIRA, so easy to use, and easy on the eye. We used Jenkins for our build process. I'm not a fan of TFS/TF build process.

Could someone list of couple of places for ones that are reputable? I was looking at Namecheap.com the other day, still trying to figure out one for a decent price, but that I wouldn't have any complications with at the same time.

Hi Michael, I'd be very curious if you could expand a little bit on your reply. I'm the architect of the application at my business (inherited the architecture, which is in desperate need of re-architecting because of performance concerns). We have over 2000 stored procedures that implement ALOT of business logic. On the webservice side, we are running 25 application servers, with the 3 threads per server to try and handle the load. According to SQL Server (Quest Performance Analysis), it's handling everything just fine, but the response time in general of the application is very poor. Right now, our only way to try and improve the performance is by adding more application servers into the pool.

I've been using MSE for a few years now and I believe it works well. I, too, do NOT like to pay for things, so the freebies is always the route that I will take. I'll admit, even though I'm a developer, I'm a "beginner" when it comes to AV protection etc. So here's my question for you all. I've been running MSE for a few years, while also running Avast. It "appears" as though they are both running, but are they? Are they basically doing the exact same thing? What are people's preferences between the 2 products. What are the necessary [free] products to keep a computer running clean? I use MSE, Avast, SpyBot, used to run Sygate Personal Firewall, but not anymore. Malware Bytes, what are the other products that are also "essential" to have running on a machine?

Yes, the gated check-ins are what we are excited for when we move to TFS (and that's the only thing in my eyes right now).

The company I work for is using CC.NET along with NAnt. It seems to work for us but we have a few little things that don't work anymore, and it's very hard to debug some of the code to figure out why it's not working. (Mainly the "style" task in NAnt used for the XslTransform process of configuration files). We have around 200 projects in our source control that are all built for a single application (that is both web-based and WinForm based accessing webservices). It took a LONG time to get the entire process built and working (over 6 months). I'm guessing it's because of of the multiple environments and different configurations for each environment, build type, and project. Our plan is to migrate over to TFS, which I'm a little scared of...just because the conversion will take along time. Someone above mentioned a "webdashboard" for CC.NET, I'd be curious to here about that.