Month: August, 2005

Wow this will sound weird but here it is: I’m having problems with Mormon run tech businesses

31 August, 2005 (20:13) | General | No comments

There you have it. I’ve said it.
There used to be a time when Mormon run tech businesses were a model of how to do it right. Anybody remember why Wordperfect had more than 80% of the market? Free tech support! That used to be a novel concept back in the day. Well times have […]

The Code Project - Introducing TaHoGen - An Open Source Implementation of a CodeSmith-Style Code Generation Engine

31 August, 2005 (05:48) | .NET Tools, .NET Code Related | No comments

A few weeks ago I blogged about my dissappointment with CodeSmith. At the time my buddy Dan suggested that it would be easy to write a replacement using Eclipse and a couple of other free tools available in the Java world. It appears that may not even be necessary. Today I came across TahoGen which […]

Rob Caron’s Reading List

31 August, 2005 (05:37) | General, .NET | No comments

You know how some folks have their favorite tools up on a blog. Rob seems to have added a list of links to good reading subjects. And since I just looooove a bunch of links, here is a link as well as the list in its entirety below.
Don’t know if copying an entire entry like […]

Quova - a license to print money

26 August, 2005 (19:04) | General, .NET | No comments

Some ideas are just so simple and so cool it makes me wish I had them first. Quova is one of them.
I will be implementing their IP lookup server on our webfarm to check approximately 40,000 daily requests. Primarily we are planning to use Quova for compliance purposes. Meaning that users who create a login […]

More than one way to do this

16 August, 2005 (16:38) | .NET Code Related | 1 comment

Today I came across Milan Negovan’s test of provider patterns and the time one might save in instantiating it from a cache.
Why even go there? The system I’ve worked with recently that utilized providers all over the place simply instantiated them via a singleton that loads when the app starts. ( I […]

Rob Caron’s Blog - A Team System Nexus : Suggested Reading - 2005-07-31

14 August, 2005 (09:26) | .NET Code Related | No comments

OK just call me a linkaholic. I look at my blog as a reference tool as much as a soap box thatI can stand on and espouse my wisdom. So here are some more links - this time from Rob Caron.
Love it!
Link here

101 Samples for Visual Studio 2005

14 August, 2005 (09:20) | .NET Code Related | No comments

101 Samples, in both Visual Basic and C#, featuring many of the new features available with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0.
Lets hope the link doesnt get stale. Just as they did in VS 2003, here are some samples for VS 2005. Funny thing is I never used the 2003 ones. They […]