Development Notes, News and Ramblings
This morning I received Ralf Westphal’s German newsletter in which he mentions PostSharp. Ralf is one of the smarter people in this business, so having him excited means there has to be something to this tool.
Very interesting stuff. According to its site, with PostSharp, you can develop custom attributes that change your code. It is a […]
Why do I keep thinking that Voice Recognition - especially the software pandered by Dragon Naturally Speaking - is anything other than unmitigated %&#@ ?
I have a long and painful history with Dragon Software. The general principle of Voice Recognition (VR) holds a lot of promise. Dictating to your computer, instead of typing, saves […]
Have you ever gotten into a situation where your customers development team uses tools that you know full well are not best of breed, but you go along with it and use them for their project because…. well they are the customer and pay the bills. I have precisely such a case. The customers […]
We are creating an SOA based application that is a little bit reminiscent of a CRM system. Its a rudimentary proto-type at the moment because the customer wants to go slow. That’s pretty nice. So the front end is an ASP.NET app and the back end is completely WCF services driven. This has been the […]
Or at least if you have a translator that does.
I have never put a lot of credence into the work of a “Systems Analyst”. Maybe because so many I have met weren’t really all that great. But my tune is about to change. On a current project for a major Japanese bank, we are […]
Larry O’Brien points to one of several cases in which developers have come across some of the more deficient aspects of RoR (and Ruby). He echoes the comments I have heard from a couple of other people, most notably my buddy Dan who pointed out that the way in which RoR is built is really quite […]
Thats very good news indeed. And while I have only heard about it this morning, I did find a nice post by Scott Hanselman on the subject. After MIX07 a lot of people made fun of this project and some posted actual concerns based on MS’s policy when it comes to publishing open source and […]
Just to add to the already sinking reputation of SEO as an activity that requires some sort of special skill or tool (which is doesnt), here is a comment I found in my blog today. Wonder if the guys paid a bunch of overseas clerical resources 20 cents an hour to post comment spam. The funny […]
DevExpress has a pretty cool demo page to show the capabilities of their new ASP.NET grid. I like the comparison with the other 2 leading grids side by side (sort of)
This is fun. Look at 10 samples and pick which one is real and which one is a phishing attempt. For the record, I had 3 wrong.
I am a little bit conflicted here. Personally I think agile can work under the right circumstances. But when you try to estimate a project in the real world and most of your customers want THE NUMBER, then the waterfall manifesto does hold some value. Not many companies have the culture necessary to do a […]
Dare has a really great post about similarities and differences in the RESTful approach taken by Google and MS Project Astoria. What strikes me most about this article is the fact that he describes a really nice layout and methodology for executing requests for data in all sorts of ways via the query string. Of […]
Laurence Moroney, who wrote some darn good books, has an introduction to Silverlight on MSDN. Good author. Should be a good article.
Evans Data, as reported by SD Times, suggested that Developers are trending away from Windows. Well, I know a couple who have become very serious about RoR. But somehow I think MS has the bigger purse strings and can survive a dip in favoritism.
According to various news reports, there appears to be a Chinese version of the new Harry Potter book in which Harry transfers from Hogwarts to a Chinese school of magic. Most news agencies report this under the heading of Intellectual Property Piracy or Copyright Infringement. Seeing these reports brought back memories of a series of […]
Karin Huber describes her Master Pages idea for WPF applications in an article on CodeProject. Why does that remind me so much of ASP.NET 1.1 home made master pages? Good article !
Linchi Shea reports that running stored procedures on SQL server without the Owner qualifier - as in dbo.xxx for example - can impact the performance of that server and database in drastic ways. Depending on which version of SQL Server you are running just adding an owner qualifier can get you anywhere from 5% to […]
I have to admit that I was skeptical when I first looked at Johanna Rothman’s book. Johanna has a successful blog dealing with general project management, as well as a couple of other books that deal with personnel aspects of our industry. And yes, I am probably a little jaded, but to me the best […]
NDepend is a unique code analysis tool. I believe that currently there is not one other product on the market that can can match its capabilities.
If you are anything like me, you hate having to read other peoples code. OK, maybe hate is putting it strongly. In as much as you have to get into […]