Development Notes, News and Ramblings
Michelle Leroux Bustamante discusses a custom provider that gets resources information from a database. To me thats the ideal place to keep such items in web applications. Much better than resx files.
This looks very promising. I’d like to try it on something and see how well it turns out. Jeff says” … First off, what is the Snapshot pattern, and why would we use it? Put simply, a Snapshot is the concept of giving date/time context to an object, so that a current time period is […]
Ajaxian reports on the Lollygag .NET Ajax framework – some of the comments here recall shades of Stephen Walther’s pronouncement that client side AJAX won’t get much support from MS because it doesnt fit with the business model and could circumvent a lot of the server side technology supported by MS.
UPDATE – Turns out […]
A few weeks ago Markus Wolf, the man without a face, died. He was without a doubt one of the most accomplished individuals in his line of work, which was espionage.
A few days ago Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent, died of poisoning via a very exotic radio active element.
I am reminded that 25 years ago the East-German […]
After installing Vista, the OS will show you how well your machine stacks up on a scale of 1 to …. I don’t know. 5? 10? Who knows the point is that seeing a lower score on one of my boxes pretty much prompted me to run out and get a better graphics cards. This […]
You have to check this one out. Its hilarious.
Michelle has a slew of new technology links over here. WCF, ADO.Next, C# 3.0 etc. etc.
Someone at MSDN took the time tow rite a one pager about unit testing with FIT.
Jeff Atwood explains the difference between software engineering projects and other engineering efforts. It certainly struck a cord over here.
Dan Wahlin has a […]
I have to admit at this point I am probably the last person in .NET blogger land to point to the newly released Windows Powershell
Scott Guthrie had posted a small walk through of using IronPython in VS2005. IronPython is an implementation of the Python language in .NET. As an indicator of things to come, this […]
Lately I’ve been doing some research on the current state of affairs of Atlas versus other Ajax frameworks. With so many people clamoring for Ajax enabled web sites, I started to look around and ask some questions. Personally I thought all of it – all 125 +/– frameworks out there that do Ajax were immature […]
Its Thanksgiving and I got a chance to catch up on my Netflix selection.
“Merry Christmas” is a 2005 French / German / British production about a real life occurrence during WW1.
It is the story of how it came to be that an entire section of the Western Front entered into a spontaneous truce […]
Udi blogged at length about a “rumble” of some sort in which he had to debate the merits of Business Objects versus Datasets. I can’t believe that this sort of thing is still going on, Haven’t these guys learned? Datasets for the most part are good and well for small apps but anything of substance […]
James Hall, around the office affectionately known as Hosehead was competing in the Baja 1000 a few days ago. He had some great stories to tell about Mexican cops wanting to extort bribes, getting his truck broken into and towed, having his bike stolen and best of all in the middle of the race hitting a […]
Jason Haley points to a Modal Popup script that works on most browsers. Link here
Also Jason Haley had a note on debugging a performance problem with IIS Linke here..
Ned Batchelder discusses Subversion branching. Link here. And by the way almost 10 years ago someone else did a pretty good job descrbingb branches as well. Link […]
Web services are so easy to build in .NET, we sometimes forget that other platforms and languages do not necessarily make it equally easy. After looking over the statistics provided by Sitefinity in its survey of 5000 devs (see below) I started to think…….. PHP has a large share of the market and Ruby is […]
I have to admit that my post has nothing at all to do with the Dickens book “ A tale of two cities” from which the illustration has been borrowed. Yet I think there is some merit to this flight of creative association considering that the post does deal with a comparative account of two […]
Whenver I read surveys and samples I am reminded of Mark Twain’s quote “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.”I guess I’m a little jaded that way. I’m not trying to suggest the information of the quoted survey is wrong.
In a 2006 Sitefinity survey of 5000 web developers the following […]
It had to happen sooner or later.
Snoop is in some legal difficulties and in order to assist with the proper defense of this case, he decided to release a book.
There have been rumors that the book was actually ghost written by long time Snoop entourage member Bishop Magic Don Juan, but sources close to Bishop […]
It is not a coincidence that the title of today’s entry is the famous line from the movie “Field of Dreams”. A couple of days ago I had a conversation with a gentleman who was wondering how an ISP could provide web services and common interfaces that could then be utilized across the board by […]