Development Notes, News and Ramblings
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
If you have followed the posts from MIX07 you know about this already. If you haven’t…. here is the link.
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Tags: Ruby, DLR
We’ve collected great feedback from you in these early releases, the most significant being that we need better tools to aid in defining a data model and mapping that model to the database. Although we have tools for generating a direct mapping to the storage schema, the real power of the ADO.NET Entity Framework comes […]
After Larry O’Brien declared his allegiance to REST, here are a couple more people who have solidly been in the SOAP world for the past few years but seem to have had various forms of epiphanies. Dino talks about the usage of REST in ASP.NET AJAX Extensions and Tim Ewald seems to have had some good […]
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. […]
Stephen has a very interesting article that describes the technology used by his company and how BizTalk Services ties in to provide some pretty amazing capabilities.
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Tags: BizTalk+Services
Udi has an interesting post about the notion of an Anemic Domain Model Anti-Pattern. He does point out that Datasets frequently go hand in hand with that pattern. So far so good – I am in total agreement. But somewhere along the lines Udi references Fowler, who (unless I’m misreading his point) pretty much doesn’t […]
OK that was lame. Seems that Udi Dahan managed to send me a little traffic to two of my blogs with one of his posts. Nice. Haven’t you found that nothing raises cross blog traffic quite as much as a spirited set of well placed posts over a topic of perceived disagreement?
I am not […]
Frans has a bang-up article on yet another problem with LINQ. Its more fuel for the flames of discontent (so to speak). I’ve already pointed out that from a very pragmatic standpoint LINQ is a PITA. Frans adds to that some detailed under the hood observations of why this thing is such a failure in […]
SD Times reports : “…Evans Data today released statistics that showed MySQL usage growing among developers over the past two years. The results of this two-year survey showed that 40 percent of American developers are using databases in their work, and among those, 25 percent more are using MySQL than were two years ago. A […]
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…..
Speaking of LINQ, Caber Computing offers a beta for a product called SqlTac which hopes to do several interesting things. First it attempts to provide a graphical representation of the “soundness” or efficiency of your db. Secondly it allows you to cretae versioned set of scripts plus a test database containing – you guessed it […]
Jeffrey Palermo pointed out that MS (ScottGu) maybe coming out with an MVC implementation in ASP.NET. I welcome the idea. At the same time I am very curious how they will solve the routing table that is so handily managed by RoR for example.
In the case of our PathNET implementation , we actually used a […]
Louis Davidson at simple-talk has an article by the same name. I’ve pulled the following section from it, because I am currently faced with EXACTLY this problem. One of our Architecture Astronauts thought it would be good to store differing types of data in one table.
One of the hardest things in our industry is […]
This time I want to write about team / management structure and how it may affect the quality of your end product.
Recently I commented on the book “Founders at Work”. Specifically the interview with the founder of ArsDigita. Some time has passed, but even now I find myself rerunning a couple of lines of […]
Microsoft centric developers aka “Softies” (like myself) have very little exposure to MVC and Action Frameworks. In reading “Rails for Java Developers” I see again and again how RoR is built in many ways like Struts and Spring and how ActiveRecord resolves many of the same issues that Hibernate addresses. So I can only imagine […]
In another instance of “How not to sell your product on the Internet” (here is part one dealing with CodeRush) , I wanted to highlight ActiveState Software. This is just plain funny to me. Notice the file extension of aspx in the url, and then notice the logo of “Powered by ActivePerl” in the bottom […]
Did I get your attention? Good!
I am reading “Founders at Work” – Stories of startups early days – a collection of interviews with the founders of ArsDigita, Blogger, Marimba, 37Signals, Lycos, Flick, SixApart, PayPal and many more, written by Jessica Livingston and published by Apress.
It is part educational, part entertaining and part infuriating […]
This is really very useful in larger sites. Now I only wonder if having a SiteMap provider can increase SEO. It even includes a nice little example of SQL 2005 cache dependency
The one drawback to site navigation is that XmlSiteMapProvider is the one and only site map provider included in the box with ASP.NET 2.0, […]
As seen on Larkware.com – Trace Tool 8, a new version of the C#, Java and Delphi Tracer Utility.
Link here.