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Here is an example of non trivial code that was created in a Test Driven DesignCheck it out.

I’m not kidding. Today I decided to send him an email about his CSLA framework. I appreciate the power and possibilities of custom business objects but always thought that DataTable / DataView objects had an advantage. I told him as much. Guess what? An hour later I received a reply from Rocky with the exact […]

ASP.NET databound controls are great. Put a grid on a page, add a couple of lines of code and voila you have a fully functional web app. Well, at least thats what MS Marketing would have you believe. In real world applications, developers often complain that the grid is complete overkill for a majority of […]

If you have been a business application programmer for longer than 5 years you may have noticed - especially in the Microsoft world of tools - that dynamic SQL statements have garnered somthing of a bad rap. I suppose much of this is due to the support material published by MS through its various channels […]

A performance test of using the onitemdatabound event

Dr. Peter points out in this short test that caching via the Cache object is only marginally better than the Application object as far as performance. Although cache does offer more control and flexibility. Article here.

The value of certifications… Should I be glad I never bothered with a single certification? Don’t know.

Leave it to Dino to come up with this wild issue. But if he didn’t blog abou it I’m sure a few people would pull their hair out. Shared Memory Provider and Async Commands

Extension Room :: Live HTTP HeadersSimilar to ieHeaders. The best part is that you can change them and replay the change right there

John has some advice about employee reviews.

Today what’s happening is that ASP.Net (Microsoft’s system for building Web applications) is replacing, it’s basically pushing J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) aside. We did a study at Ximian when we were trying to find customers for Mono. We found that people said that it was 25 percent more efficient to build in ASP.Net, because […]

John Kennedy has a couple of C# Express sample apps. See them here

This site has a cool way to deal with all the stupid newspaper sites that require a registration to read their content. BugMeNot.com

Scott Mitchell, one of my favorite writers, has a nice series on web services. He is just one of those guys that can express things in a way thats very easy to understand. I believe installment 8 or 9 discusses the WSE 2.0 toolkit and user authentication via userid / password.
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Saw a reference to this on Mike’s blog NxBRE is a open source rule engine.

Dr. Peter has some time on his hands - or so it seems. Do you suppose this sort of thing is useful for standalone mobile PC apps?

Visual Studio Debugger Breakpoint Helper Don’t know how long this will be up. Its a step through troubleshooter for brakpoint problems in VS

Slashdot | Incorporating Machine Learning into Firefox 2.0? Anyone want a GMail Account? Here is a way to win one. This should be interesting to see.

The VS7 Debugger doesn’t work. What can I do? Roy Osherove has a ton of useful information in his blog. This is one of the items I like to reference when the need arises.

Ray’s weblog ? Taking our new environment for a spin. Ray discusses the current state of MonoDevelop. Its still pretty darn sparse. I wonder if Borland will jump in and port one of its IDE’s over for Mono. How could they not?