Development Notes, News and Ramblings
Its been a few months since I played with RoR. Wish I had run across this article back then, it might have helped. Anyway, for some reason I keep wanting to go back and try it again. “Trust the force Luke…” – could be I’m just a little jaded with the current state of affairs […]
I’ve been using GMail for a couple of years now and lo and behold there are things I didnt know it could do. Lifehacker has an article on getting the most out of it. “Become a Gmail Master”
Alesandro Fulciniti proves that Italians do more than design fantastic cars and great fashions. His Nifty Corners […]
Anyone for a litte FireWatir (as in Fire Water) ?
Seems that someone has seen the light and produced a FireFox compatible implementation of Watir - the Ruby testing tool.
Thanks to James for sending me the link. Who says Microsoft shops can’t be on the cutting edge? We are using Ruby and Watir in an effort […]
Via Mike Gunderloy – a pointer to what looks to be a very complete trace utility. It can actually work with several different logging frameworks like Log4Net and the MS Enterrrise Instrumentation Framework.
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I’ve been hiring people for the past 3 years and over time have built a pretty nice set of technical interview questions. One of them deals with the concept of filtering a collection on the fly. Its a subject that has fascinated me for some time. Consequently I was pretty excited when I came across […]
In advance of his book Rocky has released the version 2.0 of CSLA on his site. I really need to spend some time with it and look at his custom object datasource implementation. He correctly pointed out that the object datasource that ships with ASP.NET 2.0 doesn’t understand some of the finer points of business […]
God help us. PayPal has one of the single crappiest API’s I’ve ever had to work with. Their entire business model is set up around mom and pop operations. I work with an application that generates THOUSANDS of PP payments per week. And do you know that I cannot talk to their tech support. Nope. […]
Wow this is one of the coolest posts I have seen in a long time. Its a collection of seemingly Microsoft insider and employee notes regarding the slipped date to ship Vista. It just goes to show that MS is not really the king of the hill that many people still think it to be. […]
I’ve mentioned that I am working on a code generator. Its quite a bit of fun. And I am purposefully going an “old-school” route by using System.CodeDom.Compiler.IndentedTextWriter to produce text. Yes I know this is NOT the most sexy way of doing things. If I were to follow the advice of people who have blazed […]
Ralph Westphal blogs about a quick way to import binary data files without the use of System.IO
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You gotta love a guy who compares programmers to musicians! Is that where the term “Rock Start Coder” came from? Christopher Duncan’s second edition of “The Career Programmer” has a subtitle. It reads: “The Career Programmer shows you how to master the non-coding skills that will take your project and your career to new heights”. […]
The Queensland (Australia) University of Technology is in the early stages of a project that would implement Ruby on the .NET CLR, Bertrand Le Roy writes here in his blog .
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I’ve been working on a poor man’s version of CodeSmith to produce DomainObjects for my framework as well as rudimentary CRUD procs for each selected table entity. In a sense this works like many other OR Mappers or Code Generators. You select a database and some tables and my ObjectBuilder goes to work churning out […]
Guess there is a lawsuit between Dave Winer and Roger Cadenhead. Its always sad when a great business friendhip / collaboration goes to pieces. Sort of reminds me of a divorce and of course the friends of eithe party will blame the other side. In this case that appears to be happening very publicly.
Clemens added a part 2 to his O/R Mapping posts. You know, it would be so easy to try and dismiss his points if he had not gone down the O/R road and had some considerable experience with it. So as it stands, I like O/R especially the way LLBLGen does it for example. I’m […]
Michael Schwarz is building an AJAX datagrid and came across a way to page data with SQL 2005. This reminds me that control vendors will have a field day with never ending updates to their products. Nice demo though.
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Oh man, I have waited years to be able to post this blog entry. I am finally in a position to release real pragmatic guidance on how to version your services based on your particular scenario. Just last week we kicked off a project that is part of a much larger effort (no, I haven’t […]
Last week I broke down and spent $19.00 for the PDF of “Getting Real” by 37signals. It seems to be almost as much of a best seller as Bon Walsh’s “Micro-ISV” although I think Bob spent a lot more time on his (and it shows).
“Getting Real” is a bit patronizing and full of platitudes. […]
Phil Haack has been doing some nice reading. A book called “Beyond Software Architecture“. Looks like something I need to get. At the moment I’m working on a review of “
Let me repeat for clarity THERE IS NO WORKLOAD GOVERNOR IN SQL SERVER EXPRESS EDITION.
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