Development Notes, News and Ramblings
Huw Collingbourne at SapphireSteel.com has created a very cool Camtasia video that shows him building a weblog using Ruby inside of Visual Studio 2005. I am especially impressed with the usage of the VS add in technology . Its one thing to have a little color coding of Ruby syntax but Huw goes way further than than. From […]
It is my firm believe that the C# / .NET development community lags behind the maturity level of the Java development community. How could it not, Java has been around a lot longer. Consequently there is a fascinating time-lag when it comes to certain subjects. Just about the time when many Java luminaries are complaining about the lack of […]
Been a little busy writing a unified master system that handles financial transactions across several payment providers for about 25 million users.
Scott Hanselman, being ever so compulsive, wrote a Watir / Ruby script that simulates numerous steps necessary to get to a breakpoint in a specific page several levels into an application. This is actually […]
I’d like to invite you to keep an eye on Dr. Tools and Mr. Hacks. Look to it for some irreverent treatment of some of the more sacred cows of our industry. For example buzz words that confuse people. The inaugural post deals with one of the more sexy topics d’jour – Inversion of Control […]
“…Cool so when the President dies you can take his place ? “ – my daughter’s comments upon reading my title (VP) in an email signature line….
A very funny Wiki discussing programming.
Sahil Malik writes about web parts. (I still haven’t done anything with them yet)
Jeff Prosies has some nice tips on ASP.NET performance
Streamlined […]
Almost a month a ago I wrote a post describing the difficulties surrounding my purchase of CodeRush.At that time I certainly didn’t think there would be a sequel. But here we are, less than a month later and I came across an even worse case of e-commerce blunder. It gets a little boring to point out other company’s short comings (unless […]
It’s one thing to work with a single web application that needs customization, but it is an entirely different animal when you have to work with multiple sites that are all hosted on the same IIS configuration. As developers we are not very often exposed to the problems inherit to multi-site boxes. Dealing with config […]
How about a free – as in beer – mp3 streaming server. What every dev team needs!
Someone had too much time on their hands and created this wacky flowchart of Armageddon
Red Hat seems to be in a patent lawsuit over Hibernate. .
Ever need to call a web service from HTML? Here is an article […]
Phil recently posted about object databases and, as it is frequently the case on his blog, the comments section included some great feedback. Among the replies was a note from Daniel who pointed to db4o.
Db4o is a relatively newcomer to the object database scene and as a company has an interesting business model. If you want […]