Greg Robinson's Blog

Code Monkey

gregarobinson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:06:00 GMT

Code Monkey like tab and mountain dew

Mike has a new home

gregarobinson — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:42:00 GMT

Mike Gunderloy has a new home now

VB6 to .NET

gregarobinson — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:02:00 GMT

Beth Massi did a nice webcast on migrating from VB6 to .NET. Beth does a nice job letting us VBers know about the new thinks coming and how to use them. Keep an eye on her blog.

To WPF or not

gregarobinson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:23:00 GMT

WPF is one of those latest and greatest things I need to dig into...yeah, I know, we all have the same 24 hours in a day.

Here is a nice post on chosing between WPF or WinForms. Wow, it feels like yesterday that we just started using WinForms and now we are saying "consider something else". Time files in this industry.

.NET 2.0 SP1 shipped

gregarobinson — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:22:00 GMT

In case you missed it. .NET 2.0 SP1 shipped recently. This one caused some issues for us, which took us a day or two to resolve. Hopefully there are some things in there that help us.

We are on VS 2008

gregarobinson — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:03:00 GMT

We made the conversion to VS 2008 in our current Release code base today. I'll keep you posted on how it goes. We are hoping to pick up some speed.

You Ain't Gonna Need It

gregarobinson — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:46:00 GMT

Here is an interesting post on over engineering.

A great post on problem solving

gregarobinson — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:18:00 GMT

I Want Some More wrote a great article on how to solve problems

Visual Studio 2008 has been released

gregarobinson — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:54:00 GMT

It's official

VB.NET, the silent majority

gregarobinson — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:41:00 GMT

Paul Vick is once again supporting us VB.NET developers. Seems VB.NET is the language of choice after all.

Why projects fail and thoughts on how to have a successful project

gregarobinson — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:24:00 GMT

A great read from Joel. I think his observations are right on.

Not a web developer, you could be

gregarobinson — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:41:00 GMT

ASP.NET Soup To Nuts Webcast Series

An Interesting Read on Management versus Development

gregarobinson — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:43:00 GMT

This is something I think about often, glad to see others do to. I enjoy management but often wish I was back in the trenches architecting, designing and developing.

Getting SQL Joins

gregarobinson — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:50:00 GMT

I always have to stop and think about a SQL Join before using one. Call me dumb or maybe I just don't get it. It's a block for me.

This blogger explains them well visually. I will keep this link in my favorites!

Writing programming books

gregarobinson — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:28:00 GMT

Petzold writes an interesting blog on authoring programming books.

I agree 100% with him, you do not do it for the money. I co-authored a book once and did not receive a dime, not one dime, for my efforts. In fact, I get paid more to do a technical book reviews for Addison Wesley then I did to author this one. Oh well. I am not complaining as I enjoyed the experience.