Josh Schwartzberg on Enterprise Development

Hiring! Tampa Bay Developer

dotjosh — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:24:00 GMT

Are you a highly motivated .NET code monkey developer in the Tampa Bay area with a passion for software and the ability to learn quickly?

if(not){return;}

Come join our top-notch team of developers who utilize the latest technologies (JQuery, NHibernate, CruiseControl, Nant, Resharper, etc.) to build the essential tools for the nation's largest and fastest-growing audiovisual firm.

The ideal candidate will have:

Minimum 2 years experience developing applications.
Minimum 1 year experience with C# in ASP.NET and/or Windows Forms.
Strong experience with MS SQL Server.
Solid skills and knowledge of HTML/DHTML, JavaScript and XML.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to learn quickly, as well as think and work independently.
Passion for learning new technology and implementation techniques

Apply now and come play with us

NHibernate querying without mapping inverse relationships

dotjosh — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:00:00 GMT

In my neverending quest to keep my domain minimal, I ran into a query that I wanted to perform with NHibernate that seems to be impossible without adding an additional property and hbm mapping definition.

Note: I still consider myself rather new to NHibernate, so this might have an obvious answer.

Let's say I have following two classes:
public class School : EntityBase
{
     public string Name { get; set; }
     public IList<Student> Students { get; set; }
}

public class Student : EntityBase
{
     public string Name { get; set; }
}

The School.hbm.xml file contains this in the body:
<bag name="Students">
<key column="SchoolId"/>
<one-to-many class="Student"/>
</bag>

The database representation of the above looks something like this:

Without making any changes to my classes/mappings, I can perform this SQL query to retrieve all Students who's name contains 'Powers' that belong to a school who's name contains 'Middle':
SELECT * FROM Students
WHERE
     Students.Name LIKE '%Powers%'
     AND
     Students.SchoolId IN (SELECT School.Id FROM Schools WHERE Schools.Name LIKE '%Middle%')

So - Here is the question, how can I do this in an HQL query without making any changes to my domain (which would be specifically adding a School property to the Student class and defining the relationship in the Student.hbm.xml file)?

Inheriting code (that smells)

dotjosh — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:23:00 GMT

Josh: I am excited to be furthering the development of your tremendously popular website. How may I gain access to the source control repository?
Customer: Give me a second... *You've got mail! - sourcecode.zip*

Wow, this isn't my ideal way of getting my hands dirty in a project. But, this will be easy to fix.

Opening this .NET 1.1 ASP.NET app, I find three projects and no solution file. Confused, I open the projects individually and realize there is a huge circular reference issue that was circumvented by compiling the projects seperately and then referencing their output assemblies. Yuck. There are also heaps of bugs in the code causing all sorts of unneeded memory usage that's causing the application to freeze and recycle several times a day. Finally, I'm told that all of the latest features created for the site have been causing problems everywhere else. I think it's time for a change.

After several weeks of unit tests, refactoring, SVN, and CC.NET configuration.

The site no longer crashes.
Features can be implemented faster and more effectively.
Source control provides a source history with much safer storage.
A new version of the site can be deployed with the click of a button.

There is still a lot of work to be done. But, I think this goes to show the power and reason for being agile.

Windows Live and Windows Media Center are becoming friends.

dotjosh — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:26:00 GMT

It appears that the new Windows Live services portal that Microsoft has been pushing has finally caught my eye. A new service that will allow me to communicate with Windows Media Center over the Internet. The interactions allow users to remotely record television shows, find programming information, and discover viewing preferences from buddies in their MSN Messenger social network.

Now they aren't saying yet if this service will allow for remote viewing, but lets hope we hear more about that soon. Kris Barton at Microsoft provided this screenshot of this sexy service in action.

Web Authoring Statistics from Google

dotjosh — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:20:00 GMT

Google has posted a very interesting analysis of the code/authoring techniques of over one billion documents here.
It seems much of the data they collected was pretty obvious (ex: the abundance of the "a" and "img" element). But, it's still an interesting read.

New Vista Website

dotjosh — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:12:00 GMT

I'm liking the new vista website design.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx

iPod Nano Picture

dotjosh — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:00:00 GMT

Wow this thing really is small. But, where is the headphone jack?

10 Free PC Games for download

dotjosh — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:24:00 GMT

CNet has a list of 10 PC Games available for free download.

America's Army: Special Forces
Battlecruiser 3000 A.D.
Grand Theft Auto & Grand Theft Auto 2
Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe
The Marathon Trilogy
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Starsiege: Tribes
Wild Metal Country
The Zork Trilogy

How to change the color of the BSOD

dotjosh — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:49:00 GMT

How to change the color of the BSOD

Insane Ukulele skills...

dotjosh — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 17:06:00 GMT

http://www.ukuleledisco.com/jakeconcert

Here's another one: http://movies.collegehumor.com/items/2005/06/collegehumor.159572.mov

I've never heard anyone play a ukulele like this... his name is Jake Shimabukuro jakeshimabukuro.com

Live 8 Performances

dotjosh — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:26:00 GMT

Here's a link to every Live 8 performance (Good quality too)

Free GMail - First come first serve

dotjosh — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:01:00 GMT

I've got 5 invites left on my GMail account. The first 5 people to send me a request message (please include your email address) will get one.

**UPDATE! I'm all out of Gmail Invites now sorry! When I get more invites, I'll make them available again!**

Perspective Sidewalk Art

dotjosh — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:10:00 GMT

Here's some pretty nicely done Perspective Sidewalk Art

Removing HTML Auto-ID-Population in Visual Studio .NET (2003)

dotjosh — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 19:01:00 GMT

I've searched the internet high and low for a solution to this problem.

My current occupation requires me to support the now legacy ASP 3.0 language. Naturally... my IDE of choice/usage is Visual Studio .NET 2003... it really does a great job of almost everything. The only major complaint I have is the auto-ID-population of many HTML elements (such as INPUT) when you do a copy and paste with these elements. I'm sure most of you have seen this major annoyance. I understand that every element SHOULD have a unique identifier, but I'd rather handle that on my own, not have VS.NET creating a text1, text2, text3 for me, when I just have to go back and change it.

How to reproduce:
just copy and paste this <input type=text> into visual studio.net 2003 on a page recognized by the IDE as an HTML page (You are going to have to use the PASTE AS HTML option).... and watch the auto ID creation begin.

I have seen posts from microsoft rep's saying they there is no way to disable this in the current versions. But with an Visual Studio .NET 2003 API, anything is possible.

So does anyone have a solution, script, crack, or prayer to disable the VS.NET HTML Auto-ID-Population setting?