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Last night I watched Sidney Lumet’s “A Stranger Among Us” for the umpteenth time. I do not watch many movies more than once so this this one is unusual. It tells the story of a murder that took place among the Hasidic community in Queens/Brooklyn. If you are interested why Hasidic Jews dress and […]

Mike Gunderloy recently published a new book called “Developer to Designer”. Here is a link for it. Reading this book reminded me just how thankful I am for the people with whom I worked on my first few programming gigs. “Developer to Designer” deals with the ins and outs of user interface design, […]

A quick introduction to concepts and terminology about the connections feature within the ASP.NET Whidbey Web Parts Framework, followed by a discussion of building support for cross-page connections using the extensibility mechanisms, along with associated code to download and play with.
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I suppose knowing who the guys in the pictures were might have helped.

I had mentioned a few days ago that one of my Christmas presents was Ted Neward’s book “Effective Enterprise Java”. Having finished it, I can highly recommend it to any programmer Java centric or .Net centric. It doesn’t matter which camp you are in, the information presented applies equally well. I dohave […]

So it appears that in 2.0 one can post to the server, receiveve a return value into Javascript without causing a full postback cycle on the page. Scott has an example.
Scott on Writing

I like the note that Brad Abrams made regarding the common usage of code for calling Event Handlers. I had no idea this much publicized approach was not thread safe. Very interesting stuff.

I feel a certain affinity for Scott Hanselman. For starters his last name is very Germanic. We are both programmers (he is a much more talented one than I am), and our wifes are African American - although and please forgive the pun Scott - his wife is more African and mine more American. […]

Roy Osherove on SOA:
Rocky refers right now to the validation rules that are the first and most likely candidates for duplication across layers (because layers can’t trust each other). One way to find a solution would be to look elsewhere in the software world to see where such duplication might occur, and how […]

Hmmm someone had a little spelling problem at The ServerSide
Nonetheless, here is what was discussed in Dan Sullivans article:
In summary a CTE can be used to implement a hierarchical query. The SELECT statement before the UNION ALL is executed first and just once. The SELECT statement after the UNION ALL is executed […]

Calculate the number of days between two dates seems really simple, but there are some exceptions. The simplest idea is to substract two DateTime and get the number of days in the resulting TimeSpan. The method doesn’t work when the two dates are set with different year or the number of hour are less than […]

Frans opened a can of worms. Although I have to say that I’ve been pretty much expressing similar views - just not as nicely defined.
Yes there is SOA and yes in time it maybe something useful, but for the moment it is definetly being treated similar to the time whn the .NET moniker was […]

Almost missed the news that MyGeneration has hit release. Does anyone have experience with this thing? How do you like it?
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Christoph Nahr has some collection templates for Codesmith. I wonder if these are the same as the ones shipping with Codesmith itself, since Eric is pretty cool about adding third party templates to his tool.
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In the past three days I’ve been looking at Oracle as a datasource for a .NET application. Mainly I’m reviewing the design of a consulting company for my present employer. It appears that even though my company uses Oracle 8i, we would have to install 80+ MB of Oracle ODP 9.xxx to get the […]

Mike Gunderloy had a post of Saliks performance comparison. Very interesting results. It seems that Generics are wicked fast compared to the other 2 ways of building code.

The following is a repost of an article I originally published on my now defunkt Radio blog.
Warning - Religious content. May lead atheists to have second thoughts about the nature of our existence…
The following story discusses some key historical factors that I’ve learned in a presentation by Matt Lockhart, a UCLA grad student […]

So I’m just a bit geeky. One of my Christmas presents was Ted Neward’s “Enterprise Java” . I can recommend this book wholeheartedly to any .NET developer who needs to work on larger scale systems. And even if you don’t, its a wonderful read. One caveat, I imagine C# coders would have a […]

I’ve decided to go back to SharpReader after a circuitous detour using SauceReader and OmeaReader. While I appreciate what those two alternate tools try to accomplish I found Sauce very slow and Omea experienced a database failure that caused it to loose all of my RSS feeds. That really ticked me off. Coming back to […]

I want to thank Jeff Barr for taking time out of his Sunday to share some code with me that will hopefully enforce some comment spam control. He went beyond the call of duty of a good Internet neighbor by pretty much holding my hand through it all (figuratively speaking). Thank you Jeff. […]