Development Notes, News and Ramblings
DocToHelp, in its recent print ads running in Visual Studio Magazine, has taken the courageous and laudable step to include an image of Winslow T. Carstensen, the oldest known .NET programmer in the world.
“Speedy T.” as Mr. Carstensen is known to friends on the ASP Forums has graciously agreed to take part in this […]
Whilst attempting to upgrade CodeRush to the current release (2.2.2) the Installer would hang and display the very useful message “Internal Error 2739″. At first I searched the CodeRush knowledge base but was not able find anything. Maybe it was my search technique….. Google to the rescue. Simply entering the error number brought me to […]
* IISAdmin.NET by Mark Belles and Gabe Wishnie allows you to create multiple websites under Win XP.
* Lindsay Donagh explains how to convert a physical computer to a virtual machine (using VM Ware of course)
* Torrent Director - 900 top torrent sites on the web
* Alessandro Fulciniti Nifty Corners Cube - css / javascript layout […]
When you live in Hollywood you frequently come across people who don’t work in the movie industry themselves but have friends and family members that do. Consequently everybody here is an expert. Well most everybody. Ergo it is no surprise that I have a favorite screen writer. His name is Eric Roth. If you have […]
This week I have been working with NxTV, the premier supplier of in room entertainment for hotels. The product sold by NxTV is essentially a small computer that is attached to the hotel tv set. Customers can order movies or internet access on it. The set top box talks to a couple of servers and […]
OK that was goofy. But it shouldn’t distract from Goijko’s post describing his experience of using Selenium and Fitnesse together to run some very nice functional tests of web sites. To me this is a great example because software testing can be a bit of a chore. Sure unit tests are nice, but how often […]
Red Gate Software has an open beta for the next version of its flagship product. This new version has improvements such as
* Synching to and from scripts, for version control
* UI improvements for managing comparison projects
* Various other UI improvements
If you are interested in beta testing, contact me and I will put you in touch […]
Who can blame the guy. He has a product that supports a bunch of different database servers. So consequently he is very familiar with his subject matter.
He says: “…Scientists should stick with science. What they invent and discover should be moved to the real world by engineers, not by scientists as well. Because, if […]
For pointing out the following:
“….A tip o’ the hat to Ayande Rahien for having the guts to point out today that the stuff that comes out of Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices (P&P) group is mostly over-abstracted, over-architected crap. He said it nicer than that, and he rightly pointed out that it’s not that the […]
eWeek reports on the reorg at MS that has all server platform and dev teams reporting to the Microsoft Business Division under Jeff Raikes : “Simply stated: There is no Linux equivalent to Microsoft Office. It’s what enterprises use and manage, and most businesses’ crown jewels of information are contained in Microsoft file formats. As […]
Some time ago I posted a quick review of “Release It” . Having read the book twice, I want to add a couple more comments.
First of all, while it is indeed a Java centric book the topics being discussed are general enough that a lot of it can apply to .NET and secondly, I just […]
The following are paraphrased conversations that actually took place. This is not made up. If you find yourself part of conversations like this, it maybe time to look for other opportunities. As much as we developers like to discuss software anti-patterns and quality issues, there are so many other aspects of running a software business […]
I see a Silverlight shining - very funny.
Adobe has a really nice color scheme generator called Kuler.
Aaron Skonnard discusses WCF Endpoints and Addresses.
And finally the following excerpt from The Architecture Journal published by Microsoft (Vol11) - I wonder if the authors are under contract with the Defense Dept to provide new ways of torture […]
Here is a slide show that explains the pains and optimizations that Twitter went through. With all the cute names for libs and apps I feel like I fell into the Kindergardent class of Ruby. Seriously.
Here is an odd situation I came across today. This probably wont happen to many other people because it is so specific to certain network settings. But if it happens to you, maybe I can save you the 4 hours I spent on hold today with MS SQL Server PSS… whilst paying $250 for the […]
dnrTV has a very nice episode full of information on using Debug.Writeline and Trace Statements to help debug applications. I continue to be blown away occassionally by the depth of Scotts knowledge.
Watch the show here
This is so hilarious. I absolutely love it.
[Remember WinFS? Remember we spent thousands of years of developer effort and billions of dollars, and delayed Vista by years… and ended up canning the whole thing. Well the only thing we salvaged from the whole sorry fiasco, was something called the ADO.Net Entity Framework. It allows […]
The Microsoft Codename “Astoria” Overview document shows how data is addressed and represented by Astoria data services. In order to address data with Astoria data services the following addressing scheme is used: http://host/vdir//{{<[predicate]>}. For instance the URI http://myserver/data.svc/Customers points to a resource, which contains all customer instances. A single customer might be referenced by the […]
A place to find all sorts of recorded sessions from Microsoft MIX07.
Alessandro Gallo has a nice short description of the a work-around solution to cross domain AJAX calls. He uses a local web service as a proxy on his domain which connects to the service that could normally not be reached via Ajax>
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Tags: AJAX, Web+Services