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Mea culpa Joel Spolsky for thinking that you are a windbag (or gust pocket). I’ve just finished reading “Joel on Software” by Apress ( my favorite publisher). The book is funny, and chockful of incredible insight and commentary. I even forgive you mentioning the fact that you worked at MS as many times as you […]
I am a very visual person, which means the more photographic a movie the more I like it. For example, I could watch the Godfather series forever. Its so well shot. Anyways, today I rented the original Chinese version of The House of Flying Daggers. Its a visual feast. Shot in an impossibly green bamboo […]
Hanselman shows his example of an HTTPHandler. Personally I love working with them - to them point that on days of lesser sanity I contemplate websites composed entirely of handlers and custom controls. All code, no declarative interface. And then I wake up….
Anyways, here is what he says:” …I’ve been writing HttpHandlers lately for […]
Via Mike Gunderloy - an online version of the O’Reilly book. Link here
In Europe, public transportation is so far ahead of the US its scary. For example the German equivalent of Amtrack provides a bike rental service that is completely location independant. Here are some details on how the system was secured. Fascinating (to me anyways).
“……Ever needed to get somewhere quick but you had no […]
Because I had a bit of a slow day I started to wonder what happens when you try to call a .NET assembly from classic asp. Found a link to someone who did it.
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Fred discusses the changes in Configuration Section Handlers in .NET 2.0.
“…In this post I will write something about the new section handler feature. I have written about the new way of creating section handler before. But this time I will focus on how to create a collection of adding child elements by using the […]
Tim Price has an example of filtering collections. Its a nice first cut but I think there are better ways to do it. And if I ever got my act together I might write one….
Nonetheless in the meantime Tim’s is an interesting starting point.
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Lo and behold an article on MSDN that very nicely verbalizes the stuff I’ve been grunting on about in my own way fro almost 3 years now. Way to go MSDN!
“…..The days of ADODB.RecordSet and the oft-forgotten MoveNext are gone, replaced by the powerful and flexible capabilities of Microsoft ADO.NET. Our new arsenal is […]
I have always had a rebellious streak in me. When I was a kid I refused to join the communist youth organizations of East Germany, and as an adult living in the US my rebellion comes in in odd blog posts here and there
Do you recall the Souther California strike of grocery […]
Many years ago Microsoft used to give out Solution Provider memberships like candy. Do a favor for MS and voila you were comped a membership. When I personally experienced that arrangement I began to doubt the veracity of some of the MS driven “status symbols” for lack of better words.
Some time passed […]
Well I hope that Ivan doesnt mind a wordplay on his name. In any case, he did post some interesting work with encryption. He says” I am seeing a lot of question people are asking on how to do encryption/decryption. To help those people I have written a simple class encorporating several encryption/decryption functions…”
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Pierre Greborio has an example based on Martin Fowlers pattern. I like it.
When I have to propagate errors from the domain object to the presentation I usually use exceptions. All errors bubble from bottom to up and then are ready to be published to the UI (managing the catch section). The Notification pattern can […]
A discussion of a control that tells the user the browser is set to block pop-ups
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Klaus Aschenbrenner is quantifying the speed that some operations gain by being moved into the db. I love ORM’s like LLBLGen but just as Klaus clearly saw, you can’t simply throw any old ORM at an app. LLBLGen happens to be able to deal with this. But sometimes it may take judicious tuning and […]
Pat helland is hiring on with Amazon. I’m still amazed about his blog post dealing with his wife’s passing. Guess it must feel a little bit like the whole world came unglued. No wonder he now lost 100Ibs. I wish him the best and hope he continues to publish papers at http://www.pathelland.com/
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Recognizing good programmers among job applicants is not easy. This article contains interview techniques, garnered from a recent summit on writing better code, that can help you can find the most qualified programmers for your project.
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A utility that can give you up to 10 monitors for a single box along with a nifty toolbar to manage the entire mess. Hmmm. Don’t you need a special display adapter for multiple monitors on 1 machine?
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In Los Angeles we have a radio station called Indie Radio 103.1
This station has seen its way clear to put on Steve Jones of Sex Pistols fame as an occassional DJ. Its one of the best shows on radio. Miles better than more commercial stations. Today he had the guys from Def Leppard […]