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Recently I was asked “ What technology do you recommend Linq or NHibernate” ?  My knee jerk reaction was “ It depends – potentially neither”. But that’s not good enough as an answer. The feeling that I owed a better explanation led me to this post.
Let’s start with some basics. Object Relational Modeling has been [...]

This morning I stumbled across some discussion of using C# to build IPhone apps. You may know already that ordinarily IPhone apps are built using Apple’s Objective-C , which is pretty ancient and lacks some useful features like automatic memory management for example. Objective C came out as part of NextStep which was a company [...]

I have been slogging my way through the MS MVC architecture. There are some good parts and some really hard to get used to parts. Some stuff just has me completely puzzled. For example when your used to setting an autopostback property on a drop down control, the need to have to hand code some [...]

As a programmer / consultant I always work on improving my skills. Except for the past year or so. I coasted a little bit. Consequently I am faced with two technologies that I need to study up. MS MVC and Silverlight. My personal feeling is that Silverlight will grow into the larger market over [...]

Wow, I really have been leading a pretty sheltered life as a consultant. There is a toolset I have used for a number of years that has predictably delivered results. When it comes to projects where you deliver or you dont eat its pretty important that your tools work. Along the way I was fortunate [...]

After returning from a wonderful vacation, its back to business. We are currently working on an interesting WCF project in which I actually get to dogfood our service implementation. At least thats the plan. Working with a distributed team, Jeff one of my guys,  is located in Northern California. He happens to be responsible for huge [...]

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 [...]

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 !

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 [...]

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 [...]