Development Notes, News and Ramblings
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 !
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 […]
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
While I haven’t used CSLA in a few years, I have always looked to Rocky and the code in his library as great examples of how to structure frameworks and how to use certain technologies. For example for ASP.NET 2.0 Rocky went ahead and worked on a custom DataSourceControl which was (to me) very trail-blazing. […]
Dare added together the some of his experiences. You would be surprised how many projects I’ve seen like this. I especially like the piece on Schedule Chicken. Its fantastic.
I think this list is almost as great as Spolsky’s top 10 check list for tools and process.
Link here…..
Codeproject article on serializing a custom class (Via Frans Bouma)
Another drop in the CSS Friendly Adapter Toolkit. Its a nice way of changing the html/css output for server controls.It brings their output more in line with current CSS practices.
Ryan Farley discusses RSS Feeds in IE and Vista. Both have built in FeedReader classes.
Scott […]
My collection of interesting links has been growing for weeks and I haven’t had the time to post them. So here they are in one massive list.
Daniel Zeiss is on rev 9 of his major Ajax framework comparison. Great stuff.
Today I installed ScrewTurn Wiki in 10 minutes (as opposed to an hour for […]
Thomas and Josh are stoked about the IoC pattern found in the Castle framework project. As a result of their excitement they’ve posted a nifty little example on The Joy of Code.
I have had IoC incorporated in our PathNet framework for over 2 years now. It is very useful - even though the naming […]
I’d like to invite you to keep an eye on Dr. Tools and Mr. Hacks. Look to it for some irreverent treatment of some of the more sacred cows of our industry. For example buzz words that confuse people. The inaugural post deals with one of the more sexy topics d’jour – Inversion of Control […]
“…Cool so when the President dies you can take his place ? “ – my daughter’s comments upon reading my title (VP) in an email signature line….
A very funny Wiki discussing programming.
Sahil Malik writes about web parts. (I still haven’t done anything with them yet)
Jeff Prosies has some nice tips on ASP.NET performance
Streamlined […]
Via Jason Haley – WebServiceStudio, a small utility program that can be used to test web services interactively. Might be fun to try out.
Poor Man’s Camtasia . Yes Software produces a screenshot animation tool that costs only $50..00 and can be used to produce software demo’s and training snippets.
AJAX and the market saturation of […]
A few weeks ago I blogged about my dissappointment with CodeSmith. At the time my buddy Dan suggested that it would be easy to write a replacement using Eclipse and a couple of other free tools available in the Java world. It appears that may not even be necessary. Today I came across TahoGen which […]
Today I came across Milan Negovan’s test of provider patterns and the time one might save in instantiating it from a cache.
Why even go there? The system I’ve worked with recently that utilized providers all over the place simply instantiated them via a singleton that loads when the app starts. ( I […]
OK just call me a linkaholic. I look at my blog as a reference tool as much as a soap box thatI can stand on and espouse my wisdom. So here are some more links - this time from Rob Caron.
Love it!
Link here
101 Samples, in both Visual Basic and C#, featuring many of the new features available with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0.
Lets hope the link doesnt get stale. Just as they did in VS 2003, here are some samples for VS 2005. Funny thing is I never used the 2003 ones. They […]
Roy Osherove discusses the uses of Enterprise Services (Transactions) in a database connected test scenario. The idea is that restoring even a small SQL Server db to a nown state before each test can take a loooong time. So…. transactions to the rescue. Nice idea. Read More
It appears that MS not only provided VS 2005 with a new “Object Datasource” - allowing me to bind controls to business objects, MS also has become more and more vocal about the need of using proper domain objects instead of datasets. Thats nice. After 3+ years of railing against datasets as the “cure-all of […]
So there I was perusing the Beta MSDN Documentation when I came across this little ditty.
MS has finally decided to give us a class that lets us deal with a connection string in terms of properties as opposed to a straight out string. So now you can do stuff like “builder.Password = someNewPassword”.
Wadda ya […]