Development Notes, News and Ramblings
My daughter is the worlds foremost 13 year old authority on Orcas.
This weekend she got to spend a day at Seaworld and participate in the “Trainer for a day” program. Its something that she literally has planned to do since she was 7 years old. (13 is the lowest age allowed). So she was […]
Microsoft centric developers aka “Softies” (like myself) have very little exposure to MVC and Action Frameworks. In reading “Rails for Java Developers” I see again and again how RoR is built in many ways like Struts and Spring and how ActiveRecord resolves many of the same issues that Hibernate addresses. So I can only imagine […]
If you ever had to do a search across all subdirectories of a local repository to find all.svn files, here is a nifty convenience by Jon Galloway:
The Subversion source control client maintains your local state in hidden folders named .svn inside your project, which can be a problem if you want to copy or […]
Mike says:
IT culture is one of those things that is difficult to quantify but easy to feel. So much of what we do crosses multiple disciplines, and it is easy to think our workplaces are as nuanced and multi-dimensional as we are.
My sorry state of affairs is that I am a citizen of number […]
ASP.NET ViewState Helper is an application designed to help all web developers, but has specific features to aid ASP.NET developers track ViewState issues. In real-time you can see your web pages being analyzed while you browse to them using Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. As you can see in this Screen Shot, ASP.NET ViewState Helper […]
I’m browsing through Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland’s recent book “Rails for Java Developers” , published by the Pragmatic Programmers. The mere fact that there are more and more Java centric Ruby and RoR books out there tells you something. And while my main language is C#, there are enough similarities with Java to make it interesting to read. “Rails for Java […]
In another instance of “How not to sell your product on the Internet” (here is part one dealing with CodeRush) , I wanted to highlight ActiveState Software. This is just plain funny to me. Notice the file extension of aspx in the url, and then notice the logo of “Powered by ActivePerl” in the bottom […]
Yesterday I mentioned the abysmal development experience of Ruby using Notepad as the editor. Of course I am a little spoiled by VS 2005. But I also pointed to Ruby In Steel. And for $190 per individual license I can get intellisense and a debugger running in VS 2005 and working with Ruby / RoR […]
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I am reading “Founders at Work” – Stories of startups early days – a collection of interviews with the founders of ArsDigita, Blogger, Marimba, 37Signals, Lycos, Flick, SixApart, PayPal and many more, written by Jessica Livingston and published by Apress.
It is part educational, part entertaining and part infuriating […]
So after assorted video card issues when running Vista (and all I have is a plain old ATI Radeon 600), things seemed to have calmed a little until I made the mistake of turning on Aero. After enabling Aero the machine completely locked up about 3–5 minutes into a session. Typically it required a hard […]
In the years since the storage engine was re-architected (SQL Server 7.0+) there’s been constant debate on how to appropriately choose the clustered index for your tables. I’ve generally recommended an ever-increasing key to use as a clustered index and many find that counterintuitive. The primary reason people feel it’s counterintuitive is that it creates […]
Mats had an epiphany over SOA…….
For years I have been very skeptic of the whole SOA thing. But suddenly someone was making sense. It may even be the case that I’ve finally begun to grasp the deal.
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Where does Scott find this stuff. The link below goes to a really creative and wonderful video about the evolution of the Web. Its the best definition of Web 2.0 I’ve ever seen .
Check it out.
Don discusses rates. Its a great article. I’d like to add that somehow the influx of Indian Offshore corps competing for the same business in the US has lowered the hourly rate many people in the US get. Secondly, in the case of the W2 consultant, several companies I’ve hired people from in the past […]
Rockford Lhotka frequently has some nice perspectives on his blog, which can only arise when a guy has spent years and years in the industry. I personally have not heard that Workflow is any competition for OO. Probably because Dan and I use a workflow system that Dan adapted from the Java world and that […]
Mike Gunderloy recently used that term on his new blog. And it struck me how appropriate this was. Programming by Search Engine – should we call it PBSE? —– is something that I myself have resorted to and also something that I’ve seen most programmers I’ve worked with do. It sort of ties together with […]
Via Larkware — Similar to an earlier post discussing the low usage of Ajax heavy sites. I wish we had some hard numbers to put an end to all the hype. I realize Ajax is exciting but its not all that some would have you believe. Personally I think it should be used discreetly and sparingly […]
This is really very useful in larger sites. Now I only wonder if having a SiteMap provider can increase SEO. It even includes a nice little example of SQL 2005 cache dependency
The one drawback to site navigation is that XmlSiteMapProvider is the one and only site map provider included in the box with ASP.NET 2.0, […]
As mentioned elsewhere it looks as though Jim Gray is lost at sea. There don’t seem to be any news items or updates available on this. Its very sad. I remember briefly meeting Jim during the SQL Server 7 release tour. He is one of the most respected people in our industry.
Link here.
This comes in very handy when trying to figure out why IE acts differently and what if anything can be done about it. Its just a nice reference page to have around.
Link here.