Development Notes, News and Ramblings
I just got word that NxTV, my customer in Woodland Hills, received its HTNG certification. That’s fantastic news because the entire service and certification test structure was built in quite fast. Considering all that goes into the Single Guest Itinerary piece of HTNG, I am very happy what we were able to accomplish with a […]
Here is an SEO Snake-Oil trick I came across a few months back. The CEO of an ISP proudly explained that his team routinely adds hidden css script elements that reside off the visible area of a page and contain references to his own company. That way, whenever a customer purchases a site from […]
In 2003/2004 I worked on a Learning Management System for CyberU Inc. One of the areas I dealt with was a speciality web based competency reporting system for Washington Mutual. Let me tell you, it was pretty exciting when I got a call saying ” The President of WAMU is doing his eval and he […]
Remember when XML was supposed to be the lingua franca that allowed businesses to speak the same language? Well, it turns out that XML - and web services - are a lot like the various dialects in Germany (where I grew up).
Germany has a great many regional dialects that are all based in […]
I just don’t have the time to blog about all the various bits and pieces of information I come across that deal with the MS Entity Framework - and how it is potentially a problem. But Roger Jennings does. Roger’s blog contains a wonderfully broad range of posts that really go into some detail on […]
Just a test note from Windows Live Writer Beta
Roger Jennings has a nice summary and various links to a great article by Ian Cooper that looks at LINQ from the point of view of DDD, TDD and PI.
Roger notes another voice in the chorus that reiterates we need support for more db’s than simply the ones by MS. He says “….He then goes […]
Recently I needed to convert an MS Word Document to a PDF file. Faced with that task I had three choices
- Print the doc, go to my local Kinkos and scan it into PDF (don’t laugh, I’ve done that)
- Search the Internet for the possible existence of a PDF print driver for MS Word 2007
- […]
I believe that the surge in various open source projects , as well as certain commercial ones, that provide proper ORM tools to the .NET development community may pose a bit of an issue for MS. You see, the data access structure that MS has espoused for the past 10+ years was usually based on […]
Andrew Savikas over at O’Reilly has a short note on the bankruptcy of Amp’d Mobile. I guess I could start a collection of blog posts about companies with promising revenue models that where so badly mismanaged that they either made themselves irrelevant, curtailed their ability to compete or just really put themselves out of business. […]
Ola Blini has a very interesting post about John Lam’s work on a MS version of Ruby. The most important part of it - to me - is the point that MS employees are not allowed to use Open Source projects in any way when developing new code. Hence John is not allowed to even […]
Sam Gentile has a lengthy post about a recent essay called RubyMicrosoft by none other than Martin Fowler. Both items are excellent reads. Sam underscores the chasm that exists between certain elements of the MS Development community. Although I do want to add one point - I have used Dependency Injection and ORM for almost […]
Roger Jennings has a list of recommendations posted in response to a call by MS for people to participate in a design Q/A session at Tech Ed. I have nothing to say. For once.