re: Bill is my new best friend - Jason Mauss' Blog Cabin

Moshe Eshel said:

# March 11, 2004 5:43 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Hmm IM, tempting but there's just a certain je ne sais quoi about that name.. :-)

# March 11, 2004 5:56 PM

TrackBack said:

# March 11, 2004 6:32 PM

TrackBack said:

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# March 16, 2004 8:45 AM

Don said:

Hey John, good ideas hopefully someone will take note!

http://weblogs.asp.net/dbrowning/archive/2004/03/16/90438.aspx

# March 16, 2004 9:48 AM

Jeff Gonzalez said:

I always liked the saying, it takes 9 months to make a baby. 9 women can't make a baby in 1 month.

# March 16, 2004 12:27 PM

TrackBack said:

# March 16, 2004 12:48 PM

Damian said:

Hahahaha

I saw a C3PO in Sydney yesterday :)

# March 16, 2004 8:06 PM

Darron Jennings said:

I have mine... it matches my web address...

http://www.icodevb.net/images/icodevb.jpg

# March 16, 2004 9:05 PM

Sean Malloy said:

a guy in Melbourne has BAJEDI (Be a Jedi)

# March 16, 2004 9:22 PM

ron said:

I admit, I have been living in a cave since I was born. What does:

w8n405

mean?

thanks.

# March 16, 2004 9:41 PM

Jason Mauss said:

ron - I believe it's "waiting for 05" as in "waiting for SQL Server 2005 (yukon)"

# March 16, 2004 11:07 PM

TrackBack said:

# March 17, 2004 12:25 AM

TrackBack said:

# March 17, 2004 3:56 AM

TrackBack said:

You have been Taken Out! Thanks for the post.

# March 17, 2004 5:13 AM

Kent Tegels said:

Precisely. :)

# March 17, 2004 9:35 PM

foO said:

gotta luv RSS... else i'd never have known or found this ;)

thx for the plug, btw! for what it's worth, i think your webapp UI looks damn nice and i absolutely dig the icons. i swear, a nice set of icons can make the biggest difference in how something looks - not to mention how users respond and react to using it.

just my $0.02, but "two big thumbs up" on EVS, bud! >:D

# March 19, 2004 10:03 PM

Derek Ferguson said:

Fawcette owes me over $1500 for articles I wrote for them in 2002. I actually went the to their offices a couple of months ago and threw a bit of a temper tantrum to try to get them to pay, but only got $200 out of it. :-(

On the positive side, I have been Editor-in-Chief of the .NET Developer's Journal since January 2003 and I'm happy to announce that the content in our upcoming April issue was 100% chosen by the members of INETA via the voting site at http://www.ineta.org/inetachoice. As far as I'm aware, we're the only publication in the industry that does this -- so we would actually appear to have already done exactly what you are suggesting above. :-)

# March 21, 2004 5:15 PM

Jason Mauss said:

That's cool to hear Derek - I wish more magazines would choose their publication criteria like that or in a smiliar way. Who do you typically look for to write articles for .NET DJ? INETA Speakers/authors?

# March 21, 2004 7:04 PM

Jeff said:

Good... I'm not the only one! We might not "get it" for different reasons, but now that I read your perspective, it does kind of feel like a "look at me" effort while denying that it's "look at me" at all.

That's the funny thing about blogs. They (for now anyway) create exposure for people that you might not otherwise be exposed to. That must have some kind of effect on people.

But I'll leave it at that. I'm sure everyone has pure intentions at heart, but the execution of such intentions isn't always great.

# April 6, 2004 3:21 PM

adamw said:

Well, you persevered longer than I did. When the rendering fell to pieces on Firefox, I just closed it down. I stopped have patience with sites that requite me to switch my user agents some time ago.

Like you, I’ll give it another shot when it either works on my computer, or I hear an overwhelming amount of praise from people I trust.

# April 6, 2004 3:50 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fchannel9.msdn.com - They can't even get the Transitional HTML right.

It's just so typical of Microsoft - we're going to listen to you, as long as you say and do what we want you to. In this case only use IE and waste your time watching videos... But we're going to keep telling you it's not marketing so you have to believe it's not.

# April 6, 2004 4:19 PM

Robert Scoble said:

We tested it in Firefox and it worked here. We fixed several bugs we didn't catch today. You can email the entire development team (all five of us) at channel9@microsoft.com. Mozilla and Firefox are important to us and we are going to fix it so it works. Just report the bugs! Sorry for screwing it up.

# April 6, 2004 8:16 PM

TrackBack said:

Take Outs for 6 April 2004

# April 7, 2004 3:04 AM

Jerry Pisk said:

Robert, you just did the exact thing that's wrong with Microsoft. Just create a page that's valid HTML (you current version has 353 errors in it), and don't worry about specific browsers. I mean, which is the home page title, Channel 9 or Channel9 Forums?

# April 7, 2004 12:52 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Jerry - I think what you're seeing over at Channel 9 is that they built it using VS.NET and ASP.NET. Now, if they had written the HTML by hand...writing XHTML wouldn't be too difficult. But they've been biten by their own tool (VS.NET) that doesn't create valid X(HTML) to begin with. It's their own fault. Maybe now they'll see what we've been complaining about all this time.

# April 7, 2004 1:00 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

I'm stil finding it hard to believe that even VS.NET would put two <title> tags into the output. If it does then it needs some serious fixing (well, we all know it needs that), but that will not happen since we're all waiting for Whidbey and not using existing tools anymore, right? and if it doesn't then they have to write the HTML themselves (be it by hand, with a filter, master page, header control, whatever, the actual implementation is not that important) without knowing or caring what their code actually does, which again is typical for Microsoft. Maybe if I should shoot a video of myself reading this they'll listen and clean up their act ;)

# April 7, 2004 1:39 PM

Stefano Demiliani said:

A good idea but not too simple to maintain I think... a big work. Good luck! It's interesting...

# April 22, 2004 4:29 AM

Wim said:

Jason,

Interesting idea. I think you do need to scope it more. How realistic is it to want to cover everything?

Don't forget that a decent amount of good quality content covering a limited set of topics is better than a huge amount of low quality content covering too many topics.

Which brings me to another point - content. The site you have in mind will only be successful with good content. How are you going to get this, and also - how do you think you can keep growing this with so many topics to cover?

Lastly, you need to make sure that on launch, you already have decent content up on the site, otherwise people will check it out and not come back.

My couple of cents,
Wim

# April 22, 2004 6:13 AM

Datagrid Girl said:

Wow, are you going to develop all of the content yourself?

Just curious :)
Marcie

# April 22, 2004 10:26 AM

Jeff said:

What you're suggesting is a good idea, but it's also a herculean task. It has also been done before on other sites, just not organized well.

I launched http://www.uberasp.net a couple of months ago and as soon as I got knee deep in a paying project, my updating of it stopped. I feel like I've got something out there now that's just another URL of neglected junk.

Not saying you'll have the same problem, but sites like these are content intensive and not easy to keep up.

# April 22, 2004 10:29 AM

Chrisg said:

Good luck, some ideas for you
- get volunteers to provide the content - with the best will in the world steve doesnt write *all* the articles on aspalliance ;O)
- make it easy to manage and update, you want to put most of your energy into building content and community not editing html and fixing problems
- see if you can get an ISP/hoster on board - if it is successful your bandwidth requirement will be huge
- what about starting with one topic then growing to cover everything, ambition is great but you dont want to get disheartened by the magnitude of it
- to make it worth your while you need content, visitors, and reward. I am guessing your reward will be ads as well as praise (<g>) so consider what people are looking for, make your site search engine friendly and think about talking to steve about the aspalliance ad network

Slightly controversial point: If you have this much energy you could always write some of what you described for an existing site then when you have enough content take it with you? Speak to the site owners, might save you a lot of hassle ..

Chris

# April 22, 2004 11:51 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Dare Obasanjo has posted a lengthy response to this on his blog at http://25hoursaday.com/weblog/permalink.aspx?guid=3824dceb-82ac-4c2f-8642-992e753cf46d

# April 22, 2004 4:37 PM

DevHawk said:

FYI, it was me who said that you pass messages back and forth, not objects.

# April 22, 2004 4:55 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Thanks Harry, I couldn't remember and had already deleted the .wmv file of the show.

# April 22, 2004 5:21 PM

TrackBack said:

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# April 26, 2004 9:06 AM

TrackBack said:

Take Outs for 26 April 2004

# April 27, 2004 3:29 AM

TrackBack said:

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# April 28, 2004 6:11 AM

TrackBack said:

# April 28, 2004 8:41 AM

AndrewSeven said:

I think it was you, not your boss, who had the opportunity to make a script to do your job ;)

Edward DeBono has a good book called Opportunities
http://www.edwdebono.com/debono/oppo.htm

# April 28, 2004 9:08 AM

Matt H said:

I love the sound of that... I would love to create some more opportunities through experience as you say, it's an excellent idea.

Hope that even people like me that are lacking the mojo of dev teams like those on asp.net forums and the like can still help out. It would probably count as "playtime"!

# April 28, 2004 10:01 AM

Joseph said:

"I noticed myself feeling burned out from spending every waking moment trying to improve my skills and create opportunities for myself." Amen to that...

I think this is a good idea.

# April 28, 2004 12:53 PM

Rob.Linton said:

Cool, thanks for the opportunity.

Let's build a full-featured (tbd), no-touch deploy, WinForms-based XML viewer-editor

Rob

# April 28, 2004 2:55 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Thanks for the idea Rob - I've posted it in a 'Project Ideas' message in the DevCampus orkut community forum along with one of my ideas.

# April 28, 2004 3:05 PM

Rob.Linton said:

Deployment/Maintenance Department

A very important discipline, I think...deploying and supporting multiple customer installations...I'm especially interested in "no-touch" deployment technologies and "no-touch" patch/update mechinisms.

# April 28, 2004 3:14 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Rob - do you think Deployment/Maintenance should be it's own department...or...a course under the Software Development Platforms department? It might be able to go either way...but I do want to keep the number of departments to as few as possible and then branch out the hierarchy from there.

# April 28, 2004 3:31 PM

stefandemetz said:

use the best practice analyzer at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B352EB1F-D3CA-44EE-893E-9E07339C1F22&displaylang=en

# April 29, 2004 12:04 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 29, 2004 1:48 PM

Kent Tegels said:

Applications would cover the use and reuse of off-the-shelf software like Biztalk, Visio, Access and so on. I don't know many wheels I've seen reinvented just because of "not invented here." Forcing applications awareness should reduce that.

# May 3, 2004 7:21 AM

Andrew - the case you make for singular table names is one I haven't thought of before (or encountered personally). It's a strong argument for singular table names. You've got me re-thinking my convention already!! Thanks!

Michael - another thing I just thought about regarding the need for junction tables

What if I had a table of "Users" and a table of "Teams"...Users could be a member of many different teams. All I want is a table that allows me to store which Users are members of which teams. How would you create that table and what would you name it?

# May 11, 2004 4:53 PM

TrackBack said:

# May 11, 2004 6:46 PM

Michael Dorfman said:

Jason-- Here are some quick responses:

You said, "The type of query I envisioned when talking about the _pk and _fk suffixes was something more like this

SELECT DoctorId_Pk, DoctorId_Fk FROM Doctors, Patients "

My question is: why would you want to write a query like that? Ignoring for the moment the lack of a WHERE clause (which causes your query to output a Cartesian Product), under what conditions would you want to see the DoctorID twice? The point that I was trying to make is that DoctorID represents the same piece of information regardless of which table it happens to be attached to. When would it be useful to get this information twice?

You then write: "I like to avoid needing and using aliases in my queries but, maybe that's just me." I think that might just be you-- aliases are useful and necessary. Suppose, for a moment, that DoctorID acts as a Foreign Key in more than one table. Not an unrealistic assumption, I'd say. You now have two columns in the database named DoctorID_FK (and one named DoctorID_PK). In the event of a three-way join, we'd still need to distinguish the two DoctorID_FK columns.

What I am arguing for, in short, is domain-based naming, to call things by the names the users refer to them. If done correctly, any declarative referential integrity constraints will then resemble business rules (and be easily parsed for errors) and the queries will resemble logical questions.

In this light, I'd be asking myself what are these Users *doing* on the Teams? For example, I might name it "Assignments" (if people are assigned to the team.) Of course, just having the name of the team and the name of the User is not much--it would be more useful if I knew what actions they were performing on the team: so maybe then I would call it "Tasks", and have (in addition to the UserID and the TeamID) TaskDescription, StartDate, EstimatedCompletionDate, CompletionDate, etc.

# May 12, 2004 2:59 AM

Igor Anic said:

Good work, here are some comments:
I must disagree with inconsistent use of underscore. If you are trying to create rules your overall conventions (for all database objects) could not be: "Try to use ... as little as possible", the rule must be: "Do not use...". Later you could make exception to the rule but with the good reason. Using underscores in naming constraints is a bad decision.
When naming database column I'm traying to follow object paradigm, table is representing an object and columns are properties of that object. For example if you have an object name File then the file name is usually represented by the property Name: File.Name. It is not named FileName or File_Name or something like that. So I strongly agree with not using table names in column names. I follow the same logic for id-s, for the column which is unique identifier of the object I use the name ID (not the FileID). When that column is the foreign key in another table then I name it FileID (would be great to name it File.ID to stick with the object paradigm, but most DBMS will have extra requirements for that).
Naming ID columns is realy important because we are using them joins so it is important that thay look intuitive.
I'm using:
... File inner join Directory on File.ID = Directory.FileID ...
it looks to me little better than:
... File inner join Directory on File.FileID = Directory.FileID ...
but this has a lot of repeating information's:
... File inner join Directory on File.FileId_Pk = Directory.FileId_Fk ...

Igor

# May 12, 2004 3:27 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Michael - first of all - thanks for the answers, this is exactly the kind of stuff I had hoped for - different opinions and points of view. You make a pretty convincing argument for your rules too, I should add.

I'm starting to come around to thinking that for primary key fields, just a plain and simple field named "Id" would work, assuming it is either a surrogate key or identity key and not a field that would hold a unique text value like for state abbreviations or something like that. Then, give foreign key fields a name by concatenating the name of the table they refer to + "Id"...which I think should be enough to identify the table it refers to the "Id" column of. What do you think?

BTW - I intentionally left the WHERE clause out of the SQL example I gave in my last comment just because I was trying to illustrate a point...not that the query would actually be very useful. But I hadn't thought about the case where more than one DoctorId_Fk field might be references, so what you said I think somewhat invalidates my point.

Anyway, for the "Users" and "Teams" example - this was actually part of a system I just designed. There are certain "jobs" that run on the server. When these jobs finish running, e-mail notifications need to be sent out to certain people. They wanted a way to group the people into "Teams" so that they could just choose a Team to receive the email notifications, instead of having to choose all of the users individually. No need for additional info really, nobody is doing anything or assigned anything - just needed a way to allow easier selection of a group of people.

# May 12, 2004 3:28 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Yeah, I am starting to agree with you on that Igor - about just naming the primary or surrogate key "Id". See my comments on the blog entry that points to this article.

# May 12, 2004 3:33 AM

Mike Woodhouse said:

My general experience is that *any* standard is better than none (or four different, incompatible ones applied to the same database, as I struggle with at the moment*) and a good standard is (obviously) better yet.

I actually found little to quibble at, other than not liking having "Ck" as suffix in column names and prefix in constraints when it expands to different meanings. I know the context is different, but my poor old brain doesn't always remember to context-switch like it used to... ;-)

Would it not be more transparent to use "Ch" (or similar) for check constraints?

Mike

* but it's OK, we're fixing that: a new, "definitive" standard has been proposed (let's get back to the "tbl" prefix, yay!) and we're going to apply that to all new work. We're going to leave the existing mess as it is. My cup runneth over.

# May 12, 2004 5:19 AM

Jeff Gonzalez said:

I have to say that standard hurts my eyes. We do things in a completely different manner, but I agree with Mike, any standard is better than one.

# May 14, 2004 3:58 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Jeff - what about it hurts your eyes? What kind of standard do you employ? I'm very open to feedback on ways to improve the conventions for this.

# May 14, 2004 3:59 PM

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# May 17, 2004 4:29 AM

Vlado said:

David Kassa said:

Sorry for the confusion, I meant Justin not Jason in my post above

# June 4, 2004 12:44 PM

justin said:

ps. the url in my comment above should have been:

http://www.unc.edu/~jwatt/writings/naming_conventions.html

# June 4, 2004 1:17 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Thanks for the comments both David and Justin - I'll look them over and see what I can take from them and add to the standard perhaps to be v1.2.

Your feedback is appreciated guys.

# June 4, 2004 1:23 PM

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# June 8, 2004 8:34 PM

Mancy said:

I need Invitation!
Thanks...
electricmancy@yahoo.com

# June 13, 2004 11:30 AM

Sonu Kapoor said:

Nice Jason! I won the other one :) Enjoy gmail.

# June 13, 2004 7:09 PM

Amen! said:

Amen, preach on! Makes me want to get out the cluebat every time.

# June 14, 2004 6:46 PM

Shannon J Hager said:

I hate that!!!!111

# June 14, 2004 7:42 PM

Jason Mauss said:

haha, Shannon - you forgot the "Shift + One" after your ones.

# June 14, 2004 7:44 PM

AT said:

Why are you asking this ??

Check out DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK (U+203C)
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/203C/index.htm

Or this cool one
SMALL EXCLAMATION MARK (U+FE57)
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/FE57/index.htm

Or complete list at
http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-23.html

# June 15, 2004 2:03 AM

Julie Lerman said:

well, all I can say is !!@#&!*(&!!&*@

# June 15, 2004 3:21 PM

Jason Mauss said:

does that mean you agree or disagree with me Julie?

# June 15, 2004 3:52 PM

Scott C Reynolds said:

I'm going to try to bring some people in...watch the blog.

# June 15, 2004 9:49 PM

TrackBack said:

# June 16, 2004 1:18 AM

SBC - Isn't the same trend of breaking backwards compatibility occuring in the platforms though?

# June 16, 2004 2:57 PM

TrackBack said:

# June 20, 2004 8:10 AM

Scott C Reynolds said:

Nice to see they didn't pick the low hanging fruit this time and opt for some kind of Windows joke.

# June 20, 2004 11:14 AM

Winona said:

the Photoshop course looks interesting. what kind of material are you looking for?

# June 21, 2004 12:57 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Hi Winona - I'm mostly looking for tutorials on how to use the most commonly used features of Photoshop as well as some basic fundamental explanations of what Photoshop is capable of (in general) and then lessons on how to do those types of things. It's really pretty wide open since there is an infinite amount of things you can do with Photoshop.

# June 21, 2004 2:36 AM

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# June 21, 2004 4:10 PM

Paul Bartlett said:

Nothing to do with the rest of the post, but my personal favourite of the family is the one mentioned in the mixed proverb:

- "Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows"

# June 22, 2004 7:50 AM

Scott C Reynolds said:

Awesome links. Thanks.

# June 22, 2004 11:16 AM

Patrik Dahlén said:

I would like an invitation. :)

patrik@pdc.se

# June 23, 2004 2:58 AM

Hakan said:

I would be glad to enter the orkut as an engineer member, i really want to know what actually it is...

hakantoz@yahoo.com

Thanks for your time...

Jason Mauss said:

Laurent,
So what do you do? Store the article content in XML files? Do you reference the XML files in the database somewhere?

# July 7, 2004 5:32 AM

Scott C Reynolds said:

XML could work here, if you have the storage for the files, but the database might be faster. Either way, just "using XML" doesn't really solve the problem, you still need to do something about the pagination.

What about setting a special pagebreak tag in the text, like %break% or something. When you read the data out, you chunk it between the tags, holding either the remainder of the article in memory, or a reference to which break you were on. Yes, parsing it this way could have a potential slowdown, but not so much I think that it would be all that noticeable.

# July 7, 2004 10:54 AM

Scott C Reynolds said:

and then I realized that I typed all that before reading the end of the last paragraph, where you said the exact same thing :)

# July 7, 2004 10:55 AM

Scott C Reynolds said:

So the other thing is, if you just want to do it dynamically, you sort of go with your first idea, which is set the number of characters on a page, or bytes, or whatever metric. Then, you start at that location and work your way forward or backward until you find a section or paragraph break, and decide which is the shortest distance. This would require a standard paragraph break sequence, could be newline newline or br br, and a standard tag for section header. but this way regardless of content changes you can manage the page breaks based on size and then take another step to ensure that you aren't cutting words or paragraphs.

I might have 15 more ideas after I finish my coffee.

# July 7, 2004 10:59 AM

Josh said:

Jason,

I agree that side projects are fun and very useful for trying out stuff that you might not get a chance to do at work. However, I believe that for beginners, it is hard to find projects that are fun, interesting and challenging, but not so challenging that it becomes frustrating. For example, a beginner might have this great idea to create an ASP.NET/C# data-driven Web site that contains lots of information, but have no idea how to get from here to there. For this group of people, the challenge is to create those little projects that can hold their interest while building on their skills from one project to the next.

# July 8, 2004 2:56 PM

melissa said:

duranmelisa@hotmail.com

i am an already yonja member. and i ve enjoyed it so much till now.

but i think i am ready for the orkut membership. please let me be one. thank you

# July 8, 2004 8:56 PM

bob horn said:

That's what you get for foolin around with VB6!! :-)

I would assume you wouldn't be if it wasn't for existing code or client requirements.

# July 12, 2004 6:30 PM

Duncan said:

Do you want to set the default printer for *all applications* on the machine?

To just set the default for your VB app use:-

Dim p as VB.Printer
For Each p In VB.Printers
If p.DeviceName = “ThePrinterIWantToBeTheDefault“ Then
Set Printer = p
End If
Next

# July 13, 2004 6:07 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Duncan,
Actually - I don't want to set the default printer for all applications - I need to set the default printer to one of any number of printers - depending on which printer was chosen for a certain document. The WSHNetwork object comes in handy.

# July 13, 2004 6:09 AM

Ryan Farley said:

Jason, classic tie-in from Office Space. That one had me rolling.

# July 14, 2004 2:24 PM

William Luu said:

Hi Jason, good tip. I might try to find that book.

I do agree with you though, Javascript isn't going away quickly.

The following site is also a good place for learning JavaScript and CSS: http://www.quirksmode.org

I'm currently doing some development work using ASP.NET/C#, and find myself having to jump back into a bit of JavaScript here and there.

# July 15, 2004 12:36 AM

Richard Callaby said:

I agree with you. This is really getting insane with the amount of effort we are wasting on arguing on who's technology is better or worse. Basically a language is a tool. Now some tools are better suited to specific tasks than others. Who would pound nails in with a bandsaw? Not many. But you could and destroy the bandsaw in the process but it would get the job done. I have a more detailed explaination of how I feel on these idiotic endevours on my blog at
http://blog.richard-callaby.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=d135611d-8c50-43e1-a25e-a88a3b8d4f8f
This is ofcourse just my 2 cents on the matter.

# July 19, 2004 10:42 AM

hashi said:

heh... i once did a contract with aol ... and was stuck with it for a year

# July 24, 2004 12:31 PM

tony summerfelt said:

on win2k it requires .net...100meg email client isn't quite what i had in mind

# July 25, 2004 5:02 PM

ClarkDBA said:

While each of these naming suggestions have their plusses and minuses, when starting a new project, any naming convention is better than none at all. While agree on some of these and disagree on a few others, the main point one should consider is this - be consistent! Doing things the same way over and over is important throughout the project.

# July 27, 2004 2:56 PM

jhonny said:

my aol si so slow what i do bout it

# July 29, 2004 2:26 AM

Sally said:

Im am only 8 and i Want a Job i want to get paid and i want it Fast

# July 30, 2004 10:19 AM

Maisha said:

I am only 8 and i want a job i want to get paid and i want it fast

# July 30, 2004 10:23 AM

Neil Burnett said:

Just a couple of comments from my own experiences:

Often in the life of a database, I need to split a table into several tables. Reasons could be normalising an un-normalised table, adding multilingual capability or simply adding a one-to-one table with an attribute that only some of the rows can have.

This means I would rename the tables appropriately, but create a view with the original table name so that any existing applications will still work until I get around to implementing the new functionality.

The relational model is big on the separation of logical and physical data. An intention is that the underlying physical representation of the data can change without breaking applications. Any naming convention that has the inclusion of physical information about an object will therefore contravene the spirit of the model. It - the convention - will also be broken in the not unusual cases I mention above.

This also applies to adding descriptive information to column names. It would be better to use a short version of the domain name if possible, but I haven't worked that part through yet.

Having said all that, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. My own conventions are in a state of chaos - that's why I am reading yours:-)

# August 1, 2004 6:01 AM

Jon Galloway said:

I've been using the Enkoder for a while: http://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoderform/

It's the same kind of idea as you're describing, but it takes the extra step of encoding the e-mail address.

# August 6, 2004 1:52 AM

Mark said:

I would say it's almost a neccessity to prefix views in some way. From my own experience I was debugging someone else's code and it turned out the developer was trying to update a view which had been named without a prefix and looked like a genuine table name!

Now, just to be awkward, I have read in some security articles concerning web based applications that, as an added precaution, in case the database is compromised, tables containing sensitive data should not be named with what they represent e.g. customer account information should not be named CustomerAccount but given some boring name (PaintDrying perhaps?). This will make the SQL less readable, and, of course, you can't rely on security through obscurity, but it's something to consider.

However, I will be adopting the majority of these conventions for my company in the near future. Thanks.

# August 6, 2004 7:36 AM

TrackBack said:

# August 6, 2004 5:13 PM

Doug Reilly said:

Personally, Essential ASP.NET (choose your language preference) and Code Complete 2ed (though this is a tough choice over Coder to Developer, another book I am quite fond of).

# August 19, 2004 1:07 PM

Dennis said:

If you want to really stretch your mind: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Only programming book I've ever seen that I would describe as profound.

# August 19, 2004 1:48 PM

Scott said:

Domain Driven Design - Eric Evans.

Why? Martin Fowler recommends it. I've got it, very architect driven book. Good.

Code by Charles Petzold.

I've got Essential ASP.NET in C# by F. Onion. Great book.

# August 19, 2004 3:45 PM

Geoff Appleby said:

Public Class Foo

Private mBar As String
Private mFnord As String

Public Sub New()
'initialisation code
End Sub

Public Sub New(ByVal bar As String)
Me.New()
mBar = bar
End Sub

Public Sub New(ByVal bar As String, ByVal fnord As String)
Me.New(bar)
mFnord = fnord
End Sub
End Class

The same as calling any other function, so long as you pass a set of parameters that match a known signature, it will call the right overload.

But the specific thing you were after was the 'Me.New()' calls.

# August 23, 2004 12:13 AM

Geoff Appleby said:

Sorry for the lack of formatting...

# August 23, 2004 12:13 AM

Derick Bailey said:

I agree with Geoff. I do this a lot - sure makes it easier to overload constructors.

# August 23, 2004 10:09 AM

Joakim said:

A nice feature of the way VB.Net is doing it is that you can decide when to call the other constructor. One of few things I like better with VB.Net!

# August 23, 2004 2:33 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Yeah Joakim, I agree. VB.NET's way seems more flexible than C#'s. I actually thought just calling Me.New might be the way to do it - but wasn't sure. I thought maybe there was a special syntax for it the way there is in C#.

# August 23, 2004 2:35 PM

kenny said:

vars out of scope after GO

# August 27, 2004 1:38 PM

Darron said:

What if the row with Id = @PositionId doesn't exist....

you won't get an exception, just a rowcount of zero rows affected.

# August 27, 2004 1:39 PM

Jason Mauss said:

kenny got the real issue - which will keep it from compiling.

'GO' separates batches so, after

SET NOCOUNT ON
GO

SQL Server interprets the rest as a separate batch, with @PositionValue and @PositionId not being declared anywhere.

# August 27, 2004 1:44 PM

Darron said:

Yeah, I saw that just after I posted. Too bad you can't edit a comment.

# August 27, 2004 1:54 PM

Alex Papadimoulis said:

Your primary key isn't named PK_Col_Int_Identity_Id!

# August 28, 2004 8:55 PM

Karl said:

A text locale variable is implictly created and assigned the value of true/false...neither having a text variable nor assigning to it is legal....and your udf has to end with a select...

# August 30, 2004 7:50 PM

Karl said:

bah..local

# August 30, 2004 7:50 PM

Karl said:

sob, has to end with a return...i give up...

# August 30, 2004 8:15 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Karl - I think you alluded to the right answer in your first response. You can't assign to a text variable which you're doing implicitly by

RETURN 'False'

and

RETURN 'True'

You also caught the fact that your udf has to end with the 'RETURN' statement.

good job.

# August 30, 2004 8:18 PM

Darrell said:

Are you relatively new to unit testing? I've been debating whether to buy the Pragmatic Unit Testing book because I'm afraid it would be a little too basic. Any thoughts?

# August 30, 2004 9:13 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

There's also another problem - your function (if it managed to return the text value) would return 'True' if you passed it NULL, which is probably not exactly what you would expect.

# August 30, 2004 10:24 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Hi Darrell,
I would say yes, I'm pretty new to unit testing. I'd read over the concepts before but never done any real hands-on unit testing. I've found the Pragmatic Unit Testing book not only to be a good introduction to unit testing but, also a good kick-start on using NUnit and how to conceptually approach developing unit tests for your code. In other words, it provides some brain-teaser type exercises and practices so that you actually come away thinking more like a unit tester, rather than just a coder/developer.

# August 30, 2004 10:53 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Here is - (including Jerry's good catch of the possibility of NULL being passed in) -what I would modify the original T-SQL to:

CREATE FUNCTION GetBooleanTextFromInt (@num1 int)
RETURNS char(5)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @ReturnText char(5)
IF (@num1 = 0)
BEGIN
SET @ReturnText = 'False'
END
ELSE
IF @num1 IS NULL
BEGIN
SET @ReturnText = 'False'
END
ELSE
If @num1 <> 0
SET @ReturnText = 'True'
RETURN @ReturnText
END

# August 30, 2004 11:09 PM

Darrell said:

Cool, maybe I'll check it out! Thanks for the rundown. :)

# August 31, 2004 10:15 AM

Darrell said:

Code Complete 2, if it is anything like the first (I own it, but haven't read it) will be great.

I wasn't big on Coding Slave. I borrowed it from a friend and read it in a couple of nights, but I'm just not seeing the impact that all these other people are. Maybe I'm missing something.

DDD as Scott mentioned is great. If you haven't read Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Fowler, definitely pick that up too!

# August 31, 2004 10:20 AM

Jim Arnold said:

Mocks aren't just for imitating 'expensive' resources like databases or file-systems. They allow you to test the actual interactions an object has with other objects (as opposed to state-based testing, which just checks the result of those interactions). Additionally, unit tests become more targeted, as you tend to focus on the behaviour of one class at a time rather than a 'cluster' of related classes. I would recommend www.mockobjects.com or nmock.org for some examples.

Jim

# August 31, 2004 2:48 PM

Paul Schaeflein said:

October's MSDN Magazine has an article discussing mock objects.

# August 31, 2004 3:25 PM

Frans Bouma said:

mockobjects are there to fully utilize TDD: you test your design with mock objects before you implement it, which is the best way to approach it.

After the unit tests with the mock objects work, you know your design is ok, and you can replace the mock objects one by one with your real code, always falling back on the unit tests to see if you're doing your job properly. After all the mock objects are replaced with your real code and your tests still work, you're done. :)

# August 31, 2004 3:31 PM

TrackBack said:

# November 9, 2004 12:30 AM

i/Noodle said:

Heheheh very funny and well written:)
I've certainly had to deal with these types. SuperFalseTechnologyTruthsBelieverMan is usually the one I end up wanting to attack mid-meeting. Not sure of the best name for them, but ScheduleAnotherMeetingMan is one I've had to deal with too - you've just spent an hour going through the details of some obscure requirement which is only to be applied when venus is in alignment with orion or something, and everyone finally agrees about it, and then SAMM says 'ok great, lets arrange another meeting next week to discuss it'. Aaaaaarrrggh. No, lets agree NOW... I only have 1 year of my life to devote to this project, it would be nice to document the requirements at least a week before the project completion date.
i/Noodle.

http://intravenous.info

# November 9, 2004 7:47 AM

TrackBack said:

# November 9, 2004 3:31 PM

Pete said:

What about ObscureScenarioman (OSM). OSM is able to introduce scenarios that are critical to the success of the projct, and, if catered for, will also save the world from famine, but have the probability of occurring close to that of the invasion of earth by alien green mutant flamingos.

He can often be heard saying "but have you thought of", or "but it wont work if..", or "I still think we need to cater for...."

OSM is satisfied if his requirements mean an additional 30% of code/time/sweat/thinking - anything else and "you havent really thought it through"

# November 9, 2004 8:50 PM

Bill said:

What a Cool Post! I think i know all of those dudes.

# November 10, 2004 1:50 AM

As one technical professional to another, I think I could see to it that some of the code made its way to you - as an academic excercise only, of course. :) hit me up at chris at chornbe dot come with an email address to get it to you.

It's kind of light on docs. It's a small team (read as: me and one other guy) supporting it, but I've got about 8 billion dollars worth of customer money being processed on it.

So, it's got some exposure in house.

# December 13, 2004 11:27 PM

Mark said:

So maybe just change it to "CEarth", and get the other geeks off your back :)

# December 14, 2004 12:15 AM

# January 9, 2005 9:17 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 11, 2005 7:28 AM

chornbe said:

Your timing is interesting.

I've never had so introspective a day (career-wise) as today. It all started at 4:30am this morning as I was awakened by my pager. You see, I'm a staff developer for a large-capital investment company and the billions of dollars in our funds mandate that I should be on-call 24/7 for emergencies.

For what they pay me, I can answer the occasional emergency page. But I digress...

After rubbing my eyes clear and reading the pager this morning, I discovered that one of my processes couldn't find its input file. Something upstream broke. I logged onto my company's webmail to check what I could from any emails flying about the ether. I found a message timestamped 7:57pm last night from one of my co-workers. It explained that his 5:30pm job failed and that we (the rest of the team) should try looking at what broke; he had jury duty today.

Ok, fair enough. So, I (and other team members) spent the day cleaning up afte rthe mess caused by a SysAdmin not properly (read as: at all) moving cron files and certain scripts to a replacement server put in place yesterday. Thru' all the hassles, angst, anger, worry and pressure, I found myself coming back to a few questions.

1) If he knew of the problem last night, why didn't he proactively alert someone.

2) If the sysadmins had done their job correctly, would today have been the oh-so-desired "quiet day" of myth and lore?

3) If we in the team were better cross-trained on each others' projects, would we have recovered more quickly?

4) Why am I still working here when this type of lunacy is becoming the norm? (that one's easy - the money - I'm a sellout, it seems)

5) If I'm "just a programmer" as the sysadmins keep telling me, then why would I have probably not made this same mistake (no, I'm not perfect - I'd have not made this mistake - That's confidence, not cockiness)

(sigh)

It's days like this that make me wonder why I bother and why I haven't changed carreers yet.

# January 11, 2005 3:40 PM

TrackBack said:

Jason Mauss rants about clients who think they know something about web design. I agree with Jason in that web design in particular is a field where the bar for considering oneself an expert is considerably lower than for many...

# January 26, 2005 5:00 AM

IM said:

Web Design.
Comparison with car maintenance - unfair.
Comparison with interior decorating - fair.

# January 26, 2005 8:27 AM

IM said:

Mind you having said that, interior decorators can get precious about their designs now and again, too :-)

# January 26, 2005 8:28 AM

I too am penciled down for doing "Choosing a Documentation Tool" How-To-Select-Guide. I think the guides are wonderful ideas, will be excellently written sources of information.

# June 9, 2005 5:31 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Good to hear Raymond! I'm looking forward to reading the other guides as they're published, too.

# June 9, 2005 5:38 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Heh...you probably would've heard from me a long time before now if I were going to TechEd.

# June 9, 2005 5:57 PM

TrackBack said:

# June 9, 2005 6:29 PM

Shane said:

I think it's interesting but they need to put some effort into making it not so butt ugly. Yes I'm a developer but that dosen't mean I enjoy looking at ugly.

# June 13, 2005 2:39 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Perhaps the graphics and CSS could use a little work but it doesn't look THAT bad...especially compared to a lot of other developer (not designer) sites out there...

# June 13, 2005 3:19 PM

Duncan said:

Well this certainly works for me - 50-60K to 110-120K

Duncan.

# June 14, 2005 4:30 PM

inoodle said:

Jodohost have been good for me.
Whatever you do, don't go for DataPacket.net.

# June 15, 2005 4:27 AM

Fabrice said:

My post about webhost4life may be of interest to you :-)
http://weblogs.asp.net/fmarguerie/archive/2005/06/15/412774.aspx

# June 15, 2005 5:41 AM

Paul Wilson said:

I too use WebHost4Life -- very good for an unbeatable price -- even good service the few times I needed it. As for free offers for advertising, WebHost4Life will give you a commission on referals -- which can be as good as a free offer.

# June 15, 2005 7:06 AM

Fabrice said:

As far as I am concerned, commissions on referrals are sufficient to pay the hosting bills :-)
But I'm using a shared server.

# June 15, 2005 7:18 AM

Scott C. Reynolds said:

J I will also reco WebHost4Life.

# June 15, 2005 11:55 AM

Rex said:

Apologies if i'm off-track here, cause its been a while since i did web development, but can't you achieve the same thing with border:none and cell-spacing?

-x

# June 16, 2005 2:01 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Rex - if you set "border: none" and then set the border color and width to 1px on hover of the element then you get an element that pushes other elements around when it goes from no border to a 1px border. And I'm not sure what you mean in regards to cellspacing. This is a common problem for me with elements that have no cellspacing attribute.

# June 16, 2005 5:13 AM

Charles Chen said:

There are multiple ways of overcoming this problem.

One solution is to have a border of the same width with the same color as the background of the element below it.

For example, there are times where I want my <a> elements, rendered as blocks elements, to have a 1px border when the user hovers over it. To overcome the fact that border:none will cause the alignment to shift, place a 1px border around it to begin with and set the color to be the same as the background color of the <a> or the background color of the container.

Another solution is to use border:none and margin to simulate this. Again, using an <a> element rendered as a block element, you can set the margin to 1px, which simulates a 1px border in terms of spacing. On hover, set the margin to 0px and set the border to 1px solid.

So Rex is right; you can acheieve the same effect with border:none, margin:<border-width-here> if you are working with block elements like <div>s.

# June 16, 2005 9:04 AM

z said:

Nice workaround dude, but I think he was asking for it to work properly instead. :)

# June 16, 2005 9:46 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Charles - what do I do if my element background is an image w/ a gradient in it?

btw, I'm talking about fairly complex stuff here...dhtml toolbars and what not...that's where this problem really hurts..not just with <a>nchors.

# June 16, 2005 1:15 PM

Charles Chen said:

"Charles - what do I do if my element background is an image w/ a gradient in it?"

Use the margin workaround.

"I'm talking about fairly complex stuff here...dhtml toolbars and what not"

That's nice. Not to sound mean or egotistical, but I have to say it "You want a cookie?" Trust me, I've worked with some pretty badass custom DHTML, cross-browser, primarily CSS based menus. It can be done ;)

# June 16, 2005 2:04 PM

Jason Mauss said:

"Use the margin workaround"

Yeah, that's what I said I did in my post.

what I was trying to point out was that your suggestion of what to do in your first post goes out the window if you don't have a single, solid color background, that's all.

And I didn't mention the DHTML CSS Toolbar thing because I want a pat on the back. I mentioned it because you seemed to be offering what I consider to be an over-simplified explanation for what was required to fix the problem I had.

I like your site design btw. Nice and clean, simple and elegant. Free of clutter.

# June 16, 2005 2:32 PM

Charles Chen said:

"I like your site design btw. Nice and clean, simple and elegant. Free of clutter. "

Thanks. I liked it at first; starting to think it's bland now :P I dunno...my taste varies so quickly.

# June 16, 2005 3:29 PM

Jason Mauss said:

heh...the mark of a web designer. Never satisfied w/ the way something looks ;-)

# June 16, 2005 3:55 PM

Wim Hollebrandse said:

For your first option, you could save a key stroke. F6 will do the same. And works in both FF and IE.

Also - to get to the address bar and display the MRU list, you can use F4. IE only though.

# June 16, 2005 7:25 PM

Buddy Lindsey said:

F11 Full screens

# June 16, 2005 7:29 PM

Chris Martin said:

Alt + Home goes to your homepage.
The obvious Ctrl + P to print.
Alt + Print Screen - Screen capture the active window. (not just browser though)
Up/Down arrows - scrolls the page.

# June 16, 2005 7:35 PM

Tarun Jain said:

Ctrl + W closes a window. Better than the universal Alt + F4
Ctrl + I toggles favorites

# June 17, 2005 11:21 AM

Geoff said:

My personal favorite for browsing the web:

Hold shift and then use the scroll wheel. It will take you forwards (acts like a click) or backwards. Very nice when trying to do research since I can just point my mouse at a link, hold Shift and scroll forward, if I didn't find what I wanted I just scroll back and go on to the next link.

No need to move the mouse all over the screen to go backwards and forwards..

Also, I'm sure everyone has run into this one: Backspace will take you back if you are not focused on an imput control

# June 17, 2005 2:02 PM

chornbe said:

Someone mentioned CTRL+W to close the window. It also has the benefit of stopping any scripts and *not* activating the onClose javascript event, thereby helping to stop popups.

# June 18, 2005 8:07 AM

Sander said:

I registered as well. Too bad that all usergroup related info is completely focused on North America. It's like the rest of the world doesn't exist in this (code)zone.

# June 18, 2005 1:52 PM

JC said:

Webhost4life is a great host with great price. I have over 10 different site hosted with them =)

# June 18, 2005 2:58 PM

Dante said:

Worked wonders for me - from 100K to 380K.

# June 22, 2005 9:53 AM

Trisha Lacey said:

Jason - thanks for the comments! Yes, it is built with ASP .NET 2.0. I am very happy to see that you are getting use out of it. I am actually the Codezone lead for the US and we are planning to build in more functionality in the future, so let me know if there are any things in particular you would like to see. It makes my job much easier if the community tells me what they want! To reach me, just log into the site and use the "Contact Us" button up in the top right corner. The emails from there go directly to me and the project team.

To the other comments - Shane, sorry you think it is "butt ugly" - we wanted to keep a pretty simple look and feel since there is so much content, but to address the ugly factor we should have some skins up by next week so you can change the look if you want to. We will also set it up so that you can create your own skins if you wish.

To Sander - actually many other parts of the world had Codezone incarnations before the US jumped in. If you want to check out the other sites, you can go to the Codezone site and use the dropdown at the top, then you can see what other countries have. For now, the MyCodezone functionality has only been launched in the US, but all of the Codezone teams are trying to work together to share what we have done and eventually we should have something pretty similar throughout the world, localized to each area of course.

Thanks,
Trisha Lacey - US Codezone Lead

# June 22, 2005 2:31 PM

Hemant said:

Even i had asked the same question about a month ago to gmail. But no has replied back to me.

# June 22, 2005 8:04 PM

Tom said:

In all fairness, I've found webhost4life to be a little slower than other hosts that
I've used and they use a shared SQL architecture which makes installing Community Server slightly harder than at other hosts (but very slightly)

That said, I still use them for all but two of the web sites I host, their prices are unbeatable and their support has always been good to me. The sites aren't so slow as to be distracting and in the CServer problem the staff was good about helping me through.

Unless top performance is a big issue for you, I'd go Webhost4life (otherwise I'd check out portalwebhosting.com which has also been good to me)

# June 22, 2005 10:33 PM

Andy said:

DataPacket.net has worked great for me, not perfect. Jodohost needs to get a clue, was with them once and webhost4life is slow and has security issues with their servers. I could delete anyone’s web files if I really wanted.

It's really about preference of each person, not really the host. One host may suck for you, but are gods gift to another.

# June 23, 2005 12:05 AM

unknown guy said:

they are forced to!
There is a interlocutory injunction about the use of gmail as name in germany
(http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/59989)

# June 23, 2005 2:45 AM

Krak said:

BackSpace = Back
F1 = Help
F4 = Highlights URL bar / Brings up Auto-Complete Listing
F5 = Refresh
F6 = Hightlight URL bar
F10 = Hightlight Menu bar
F11 = Full Screen
Alt + F4 = Close Window
Ctrl + A = Select All (Universal)

# June 23, 2005 6:32 PM

Wallym said:

Personally, I am not a fan of ORM. The two issues that I run into are a lack of flexibility for implementing business logic and a lack of speed.

# June 27, 2005 2:23 PM

Thomas Tomiczek said:

Ok, here is what I am NOT looking for:

* POCO - I have nothing against intrusive O/R mappers, as an O/R mapper is intrusive per definition unless you hide it under another layer. Query code all over the place.
* Extneral XML mapper file. Lots of people love to have the mapping file external to the DLL. This never has been an issue for me, and propably never will.

I look for:

* Strong database management. Schema sync, backup and restore mechanisms for data so that the user can easily move from SqlServer to Oracle.
* Full core features.
* Strong support for remoted data access layer scenarios. We had some projects last year requiring this - like client/server over a 56k connection.
* Same for caching. Please give me a disc based cache, so that large objects just send keysd and versions. Again, this may be specific to the projects e did, but when you have relatively static data (images) ofver a 33.6 to 56k connection, you WANT a disc based cache. Note that this can be perfectly valid all the time - you can have a counter in the object that is also transmitted to find out whether the cache is stale.
* Support for DataBinding. Absolute core.
* Location agnostic API. I do not want to have to change a single line of code, whether I work against a local data access layer, a data access layer on a separate computer and/or remote objects.
* Extensible object models. My object models ive, on a project, in maybe 10 different assemblies. I need the ability to have ONE O/Rmapper model spawn them all. Drop in a new model, the same O/R mapper instance knows how to use it. This should include functoinality like substituting object types (accounting works with "Invoice", I replace this type in the factory with a subclass that is MyInvoice and has additional fields).

And naturally all features that distinguish an O/R mapper from a toy. Which means proper OO support including inheritance, support for all 4 inheritance models.

I seriously find the dynamic extensibility of most O/R mappers being very poor. Especially code generator ones do not relaly deal, normally, with models that span multiple assemblies. Once you hit 200+ business objects, though, it makes sense to split them into sub-systems (actually it makes sense much earlier, but then you start feeling the pain). Substitution, as mentioned above, is also great for estensible applications. I can use a generic accounting package and use my own extended types in it.

# June 27, 2005 2:25 PM

Frans Bouma said:

"Personally, I am not a fan of ORM. The two issues that I run into are a lack of flexibility for implementing business logic and a lack of speed."
Lack of flexibility for implementing BL? There is more flexibility than there is with datasets, so how can this be less flexible?
Also the lack of speed is IMHO not really true. The more mature O/R mappers offer speed enhancements like prefetch paths, where you fetch object graphs with one query per node, with filters/sorting per node. You can't beat that in procs/datasets.
------

Evaluating O/R mappers can be a tough call: it depends on how YOU want to work with data: dataset oriented, object oriented, entity oriented? And full DDD or not? These aspects are key to find the proper data-access solution you need. Because: the features offered by a product have to match what you need, not what marketing wants to sell you. So instead of focussing on features you probably will never use, focus on features you WILL use and will need every day of the project.

A good example of why some features are meaningless is mentioned above:
"Which means proper OO support including inheritance, support for all 4 inheritance models. "
Inheritance can be helpful, it will be build into LLBLGen Pro 1.0.2005.1 soon, though there aren't 4 different inheritance models. There are 2 which are useful (3 actually, but 2 are similar) and the 4th is useless as it propagates redundant data and maintenance nightmares.
1) target per concrete entity type (no duplicate fields)
2) target per concrete entity type with discriminator column in root entity. Similar to 1) and if you implement 1) in the O/R mapper, you don't need this one, which allows for cleaner schemas
3) target per entity hierarchy: discriminator column needed
4) target per entity: all fields of supertypes are also present in subtype tables. Useless.

Also, some O/R mappers want you to believe that mixing of inheritance types in one hierarchy is required. It's not. Inheritance is often not required actually, and if it is in a particular situation, the relational model has to be setup so inheritance can be implemented. The main thing then is: why mix inheritance types in a hierarchy? It only makes the O/R mapper core more complex and slower.

# June 27, 2005 3:15 PM

dru said:

*I look for POCO. I don't want something getting in the way of DDD.
* I look for external configuration, XML or otherwise
* Strong OOP support
* Flexibility in the Object to Table relationship

I went with NHibernate.

# June 27, 2005 3:23 PM

Justinb said:

I look for quality and ease of use. The product must perform as advertised and have good quality with each release. The ease of use is also a must have. I have used some components that take hours just to do a simple chart while others it has taken less then 10 minutes to figure out how to do the same chart.

A good example of what I am talking about is the help/samples that come with the Dundas charting component. These samples have everything that you need to figure out how to use the component, are organized very well, and are production ready.

# June 27, 2005 4:18 PM

John said:

* Not Intrusive (POCO and Xml Mappings)
* Ease of Use (and Easy to Modify too)
* Flexibility (DAL Features, Stored Procs)
* Performance (No Reflection or DataSets)
* Support (Community and Popularity too)

I went with Paul Wilson's WilsonORMapper.

# June 27, 2005 4:42 PM

Jeff Perrin said:

Simplicity. 100% of the projects I've worked on so far have not required 50% of the features of NHibernate, or other large ORMs. I want to be able to create a nice, object-oriented domain model without having to worry about the details of it's persistence.

- CRUD an object
- Find an object based on certain criteria
- Handle one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships
- Flexibility. Let me make ad-hoc queries with concatenated string SQL if I really want to.

That's about it. I basically want an ORM at the opposite end of the spectrum from what Thona talks about. In short, I want a toy. KISS. YAGNI.

# June 27, 2005 4:44 PM

Jeff Perrin said:

Oh, I should have also mentioned that being open source is of importance to me.

I haven't found one yet that feels right.

# June 27, 2005 4:52 PM

Eric Newton said:

I have to agree with Jeff, and the KISS philosophy. Its a given that o/r mappers are another layer on top of accessing the datastore.

I too find myself wishing for features that I dont need, but "would be cool to have" and I think that's where some o/r mappers go wrong, and begin to introduce complexity into whats usually already complex enough.

nhibernate is cool, but suffers a little from feature bloat. LLBLGen, i havent had a chance to look at.

Personally, I've adopted Wilson's ORMapper, since its seems mature now. I have even worked somewhat on updating the code generation for the ORHelper side project.

Its just so pleasent to write code:

Quote = quotedb.ObjectSpaceManager.GetObject(typeof(quotedb.Quote), quoteId=1);
quote.DateClosed = DateTime.Now.Date;
quotedb.ObjectSpaceManager.PersistChanges(quote);

instead of the litany of SQL ;-) +the strong typing +when db fields change, the gen'd code can change, showing me the impact of a schema change...

I believe we're coming close (maybe we're already there) to an era of software developement that focuses more on solving the business problems, instead of solving the technical problems.

# June 27, 2005 6:30 PM

Jason Bunting said:

I use Paul Wilson's mapper, and love it. Personally, POCO is muy importante, because although Thona may feel otherwise, I don't feel that an "O/R mapper is intrusive per definition." I think Paul's mapper is 90% there as far as what I want. I have used it in numerous projects over the last 7 months and love it to death.

# June 27, 2005 7:04 PM

Jeff Gonzalez said:

We went with CodeSmith. I know, I know it isnt an O/R Mapper. Frans and Thona have taken every opportunity to remind me everytime I mention it.

What I like about CodeSmith is the fact that I can be 100% involved in the design of my architecture. It allows me to develop a solid core understanding of the issues with our data and how to solve them. We developed a mapping architecture based on specific rules and standards for creating a database. We do have a mapping layer implemented via class library that handles all of our common functionality. The cool thing we have done with CodeSmith is enforce our standards and design policies instead of just advocating them.

I haven't tried using any of the O/R Mappers that are out there today, but Paul Wilson's has intrigued me from time to time.

# June 27, 2005 7:06 PM

Jeff Gonzalez said:

I would like to add that there is absolutely no reason for me to buy a product like Thona sells, because we don't need 1/3 of the stuff he is talking about.

We use a datamodel driven design. We can generate all of the code we need to interface with a database and consume these entity objects directly via presentation layers or through an added business layer.

We can plug these assemblies that are generated into any application and plug it into any of our applications.

# June 27, 2005 7:11 PM

Lei Jiang said:

I am interested in if there are some Chart controls for Avalon.

# June 27, 2005 10:08 PM

Padraic said:

I went with NEO - lightweight and easy to use, and free

# June 27, 2005 10:43 PM

Marc Scheuner said:

ORM for .NET should:
* Support all the basic operations commonly needed (CRUD, loading lists of objects contained etc.)
* Be easy to use and not impose a complex, crazy set of conventions on me

and most of all

* support stored procedures for all CRUD operations!!!!
(hardly anyone does that - why not??? doesn't make sense.....)

# June 28, 2005 1:21 AM

Chris Ongsuco said:

* Good designer for generating schema and entity classes
* Ease of use (simple as possible)
* Strong support of object relationships (graphs)
* Databinding is nice
* Strong OOP support

And,

* Price is cheap??? :D

NHibernate, though still in its Beta, is nice but the lacks designer support for generating schema and entity classes.

# June 28, 2005 3:07 AM

dragonwell said:

"* Not Intrusive (POCO and Xml Mappings)
* Ease of Use (and Easy to Modify too)
* Flexibility (DAL Features, Stored Procs)
* Performance (No Reflection or DataSets)
* Support (Community and Popularity too)

I went with Paul Wilson's WilsonORMapper. "

Mega-Dittos!

The non-intrusive quality is essential if you want to be able to create a facade layer on top of your DAL.

# June 28, 2005 9:05 AM

Steve Campbell said:

When I was looking for an OR Mapper (did not find one I liked), features that were important to me were:
* non-intrusive, which means an external configuration file and/or code-generation
* exposed object relationships - I wanted to be able to generate help docs based on the OR Mapping, as well as generate code, and expose the relationships to the users for reporting/querying purposes
* lookup relationships - recognition that a "lookup" is a relationship too, but a special type. I want native support for the concept of lookup tables, especially those involving code/literals.
* Good object-query language - need a nice way to do adhoc queries
* Multiple OR configurations, with interactions - I want to be able to have plugin programs that have their own OR mapping files, but still allow interaction with one or more core mapping files.
* Lazy loading support. Also, optimized lazy loading, which means dynamic recognition and optimization of lazy loads that are parallel/related. (don't query for 1 record 100 times when you can query for 100 records 1 time).
* Automatic relationship management (I do not want to manually set foreign key values)

# June 28, 2005 9:59 AM

Alex Dresko said:

Everyone I've convinced to use LLBLGen loves it and wouldn't use anything else.

# June 28, 2005 12:05 PM

Richard Bogle said:

My needs are pretty basic but all centre around getting the code cut as quickly as possible.

Specifically for O/R Mapping:
* 1:n and n:m
* Some template or designer tool that will generate the classes for me from the database tables. As someone else pointed out, some of us don't have the luxury of design time, especially in the contract coding world. MyGeneration (free) works for Gentle.NET and NHibernate and I believe WilsonORMapper has templates for CodeSmith (not free).

These comments are really general. They apply to *anything* new I have to take on board.
* Ease of use is very important to me. I work on my own so I don't have a lot of time, or anyone to help me, when learning new tech.
* Stable, I can't be chasing after strange errors or configuration snafus. If I do, I may need the source.
* Documentation. Intellisense should be there for me, as well as a fully documented API. Some guidelines on best practice with copious, real world, working examples wouldn't go amiss. Cut and paste coding saves a lot of heartache.
* Support. The product needs to have a good wiki, a FAQ and decent forums especially.

Before I start with any new product I'll have a good look through these last two points to see if I like the look of the code I'm about to have to write.

* Free. It's pretty rare that I'm going to buy a product when I can either do without or find a free substitute.

# June 28, 2005 12:19 PM

Omar said:

I started with CSLA.NET and soon it was obvouse that maintaing 5+ stored procedures for every table in a 200+ table database is a nightmare especially when part of your logic is in the SP.
I wanted something to allow to generate my DAL in less than 5minutes and support any DB I want. I wanted something that allowed me to build my own templates and integrate my BL class where I see fit.
I didn't want an OR mapper to enfore or constraint my work....
I didn't want an OR mapper that created crazy table structures in my database
one OR mapper fit the bill... LLBLGenPRO

I started using LLBLGenPRO more than a year back and its been smooth sailing. We have build a big ERP project, a mall POS system and even a stock market tracking system and all the development time was concentrated on building the DB and wrting the BL logic. No data-access stuff!!

# June 29, 2005 3:31 AM

Ben Kloosterman said:

The thing is i see a lot of OR mappers in small projects and they add little value above using datasets.

Where they come into their own is large nTier systems .

Hence i want ( most copied from above)
* Not Intrusive (POCO and Xml Mappings)
* Simple and Ease of Use . Most programers cant afford the time to understand an OR mapper and struggle with the learning curve. Hard enough to wean them of Datasets.
* Flexibility (DAL Features, Stored Procs)
* Performance (No Reflection or DataSets)
* Transaction , batch update and bulk insert support.
* Generics support.
* Support (Community and Popularity too)
* Work well with NTier arhitectures and Caching . ie if using output or busines logic caching then little caching should be done by the OR mapper . If a Business component stores all products in memory , then data access is pointless except for persistance .
* Most important an OR Mapper should be little more than a DAL layer. And it should do this very well.

I also went with Paul Wilson's WilsonORMapper.

# June 30, 2005 9:45 AM

Andrew Peters said:

* Simplicity and "convention over configuration" e.g Rails' ActiveRecord. Custom attributes instead of XML. Infer as much as possible
* Non intrusive (no base class)
* Don't care about Stored Procs
* Stable, good unit test coverage and reasonable docs/examples
* Small clean API
* Lazy loading using runtime IL weaving
* Outer-Join fetching
* Database agnostic
* Lifecycle callbacks
* Optimistic locking
* Logging

# July 4, 2005 1:37 AM

chornbe said:

Ah, man. Wish I knew you were coming east. I'd have sprung for dinner and drinks.

# July 16, 2005 1:43 PM

bob hornbuckle said:

you should make it out to central illinoios where I'll show you how us Illinoians code!

# July 21, 2005 1:04 AM

Scott C. Reynolds said:

Many thanks for the compliments my friend. I don't know...he really set me off with that. Glad to see i'm not the only one who thought he was out of bounds.

# July 26, 2005 8:25 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

hh yeah? ..well a lot households are so cool they already have T1 speeds coming in. Actually, T1 speed (1.5Mbit) is considered slow these days...

# July 27, 2005 2:10 AM

Tobin Titus said:

Welcome and congrats

# July 28, 2005 3:15 PM

Jason Bock said:

Dude, you stole my idea:

http://www.jasonbock.net/JB/Default.aspx?blog=entry.0ac27034b3014d02b454cdef2ff00a5e

:P

# July 28, 2005 3:53 PM

Jason Mauss said:

bah! crap...and we're both named Jason, too. ...that's too weird...scary, even.

# July 28, 2005 4:20 PM

Scott C. Reynolds said:

Gratz my man! I had given it some thought myself... Keep us posted on the progress

# July 28, 2005 4:53 PM

scottgu@microsoft.com said:

If you have SQL Express installed, then you don't need to-do anything in order to provision the database. Just use webparts (or membership or roles, etc), and the first time it is used ASP.NET will create a sql express database for you under your app_data directory that has all of the schema installed and configured.

Hope this helps,

Scott

# August 8, 2005 3:03 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Hi Scott - I've read about that also - but I'm getting an error message when I run my ASP.NET 2.0 pages about how it couldn't create the database. I'll try and get the exact error message....

# August 8, 2005 3:09 PM

scottgu@microsoft.com said:

The error message should detail steps to fix it if you are running into it. Often these are a result of ACL problems.

Feel free to email me a copy of the error if you can't get through it, and I'd be happy to help walk you though how to fix it.

Thanks,

Scott

# August 8, 2005 4:14 PM

Robert Scoble said:

The PDC is the best, of course. More than 1,000 bloggers will be there!

# August 13, 2005 12:12 AM

Larry said:

I do remember seeing that error many times, but not recently.
If I remember correctly, it was a general SQL syntax error. In my case, I think that either I tried to to an INSERT and one of my column definitions was set to "NOT NULL" and the value I was trying to insert into that column was null.
Another time, I think I tried to insert a value that did not match the column definition in the table -- you know "bit" vs. "int" or something similar.
But I remember being frustrated with the generic nature of the error message.

# August 31, 2005 4:43 PM

Dave said:

Try inserting data into the CLOB that is smaller than the one you are failing on.
If that works then you have the same problem I had a while back.

Afraid the news isn't good though.
I bet you dollars to donuts that it is choking on it because the driver can't handle the large size.

The ADO Driver will only let you send a subset of the size that oracle can handle.

I ran into this before.

# August 31, 2005 6:57 PM

Jason said:

You link to Visual Studio 2005 Guide has a typo

# September 8, 2005 3:44 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Woops - thanks for catching that. There's a typo on the page, actually...where I copied it from. I fixed it here - and I'll let them know to fix it there on their site, too.

# September 8, 2005 3:46 PM

Stuart Langridge said:

Thanks for the review! I'm glad you liked the book. :)

# September 24, 2005 7:09 AM

Chuck Conway said:

Don't know if this is the best approach, but I create a table for semi static data. Enums that don't change, I code them.

# September 26, 2005 1:05 PM

Walter Lounsbery said:

Great question. Do I give up Intellicrack and put the list in the database? Do I give up runtime flexibility and put the list in the code? Do I force the user to submit a help ticket to add another item on the list?

I think the practical question must fall in the functional zone. If the application benefits from adding to that enumeration at any time, without delay, by non-coders, that list had better be in the database. If you can't answer the preceding question, maybe you'd better put that list in the database.

If you are enumerating the strings "True" and "False", your coding language of choice probably has that covered already. If you are enumerating the datatypes, likewise. If you are enumerating something that will allow your application to operate without a database connection, maybe that's a good thing. If you are a paranoid coder looking to enhance your job security, look for every opportunity to turn data into hard code and resource files!

Now you know why I think that's a great question! (Haha)

-- Walter Lounsbery

# September 26, 2005 2:05 PM

Erik Porter said:

I think it really depends on if that data will change or not, but quite honestly, for consistency we create tables for each enum if it will fill a dropdownlist or whatever. That said, I think an exception to that rule is for enums that will change very often. I guess I would say those should not be in the DB. So I guess I'm back to the decision being dependent on what you want to do with it! :P

# September 26, 2005 2:27 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Thanks for the feedback so far. The type of stuff I've had a had time deciding on before has been stuff like a list of databases an application supports for a feature like setting up a connection string in an admin-type tool. Maybe at some point in the future you'll support another database or OLE DB data source and so you'll need to add that to the enum in your code library as well as add a row to your table for the list of supported databases/data sources.

The other thing I've often found to be painful is ensuring that your enum values and the ID values for the primary key field in the DB table match up. If they somehow get messed up during setup or whatever, you have to reseed the value or reset the sequence (in Oracle) before inserting the rows into the table that map to your enum values.

# September 26, 2005 2:32 PM

Eric Newton said:

If this "enum" that you're talking about changes, then its not an enum. Its a lookup, and should never be an enum. Use a simple list for

This is my beef with enums, they should never have allowed you to easily convert to an int.

And for anybody adding their enums to databases: you should ALWAYS explicitly set each enum's values. And dont let the database (via autoincrement identity or something) dictate that value... thats a great recipe for disaster.

# September 26, 2005 3:35 PM

Anony Mouse said:

No mention of localization yet, if that's even a requirement. If your enums will have user-friendly strings for presentation in the UI layer, then you have to also consider where/how you'll store the localized translations of said enums. That typically points to either some kind of resource file lookup, or possibly a database table in which you may have to keep adding columns to contain each language translation.

# September 26, 2005 4:20 PM

Sébastien Ros said:

Enums definitely map to int, even more as using [Flags] attribute.

# September 26, 2005 5:19 PM

Darren "the hornbuckle" Neese said:

dude, c'mon. Give your blog account up to someone who needs it. I'm homeless, in a cardboard box, and you have 2 houses and can't decide which to sleep in...

...gosh darnit! I want a blog on asp.net and no one will gimme one. :( *insert sympathy here*

# September 29, 2005 3:33 AM

Jay Kimble said:

Nuts... I just checked the schedule... I was hoping that my Internet E-mail components was next... <sigh>

# September 30, 2005 3:06 PM

Darren said:

because I don't have a asp.net blog, I guess I'll piggie-back your entries and complain about how if I blog on my site, not only will anyone comment, but no one would read it to begin with.

# October 1, 2005 2:54 AM

Keyvan Nayyeri said:

I saw a video on Channel 9 about them. Scoble had an interview with Amazon developers.
Their webservices are great.

# October 5, 2005 9:18 AM

Jason Bock said:

I wrote a small article on my site as I use the services for all sorts of things. You can find it here:

http://www.jasonbock.net/JB/Default.aspx?blog=entry.5d98dfd207464662b2b7c1741e8ca664

It's not thorough - more of a quick intro to get you up to speed. The API is not that hard, but it's vast :)

# October 5, 2005 9:29 AM

Darren said:

one word.... DotNetNuke

ok, maybe 3....DotNetNuke Syndicated Modules

# October 7, 2005 1:36 AM

Eric Newton said:

and another thing, if you decide you want to directly write RSS XML, do yourself a favor and use the XmlTextWriter to generate the XML... this will guarantee that the XML is valid and well-formed

Theres just too many sites out there "stringing" xml together, and getting a < in a title completely breaks the well-formedness.

# October 7, 2005 12:39 PM

Alonso said:

oh gimme a break. This is cake and you dont need to use some fancy package. Just build another page and you are golden. Just make sure to reformat xml-specific characters < > etc.

If you do it this way, your sites base page class (you *are* using a base page class...right) will handle all the reporting, access verifications etc.

# October 7, 2005 1:05 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Alonso - yes I am using a base page class - I don't see what that has to do with "reporting" and "access verifications" though. Care to elaborate?

The reason I would like to possibly use an HttpModule is because, technically, a URL like devcampus.com/database/SQLServer/RSS will not exist. So I need to handle requests for RSS like that in a custom way. The only way (that I know of) to handle a request for a page/url that doesn't exist using an .aspx page is to have a custom 404 page and have it look at the request url and return the RSS xml content if it's a "good" invalid url/page request.

# October 7, 2005 1:15 PM

Alonso said:

I would suggest just keeping it simple. Have the actual page exist. Have a page-class hierarchy like:
BasePage : System.Web.UI.Page (put your request logging here)
BasePageRequireLogin : BasePage (put your access control logic here)

if you want your rss page to require a login, then the aspx page for it would just be:
public class rssPage : BasePageRequireLogin {
// etc
}

This way, your authentication / logging / reporting is identical to the existing logic of the rest of your site.

if you want a url like SQLServer/RSS/ then just have the .aspx page be "default.aspx" or "index.asxp" or whatever you have your IIS server setup for default document delivery.

You could use HTTP pipeline stuff and urlrewriting but why bother? ASP.NET does not have good support for these technologies, you dont need them, and simpler is better.

Just my .02, I have had employed this strategy and much more complex strategies and found this approach more straightforward, simpler to setup, more intuitive for maintainers, and therefore better.

# October 7, 2005 6:33 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Thanks for sharing Alonso - gives me some things to think about.

# October 7, 2005 6:54 PM

Roy J. Salisbury said:

Well, I don't think it really means that it is using .NET (aspx) .. try

http://r.email.microsoft.com/CUI/error.php?culture=en-us

Are they running php as well?

# October 19, 2005 7:34 PM

Bruce Garr said:

Yeah, I'm going. Where do you want to meet?

bgarrydo-REMOVE-@netscape.net

# October 20, 2005 3:32 AM

Anonymous said:

What resin email software? Resin is a Java servlet engine.

# October 20, 2005 4:07 AM

Jason Mauss said:

ahh - right you are anonymous. I had just assumed it was e-mail software because of the context in which the error occured. Thanks for correcting me.

# October 20, 2005 4:19 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

Just wear a T-Shirt that says "I Know Raymond Lewallen". They'll probably ask you to present the launch event.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

# October 20, 2005 11:35 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

Or better yet, you'll attract some of the more "awkwardly curious" crowd in SanFran :)

# October 20, 2005 11:38 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Careful what you say Raymond - I'm good friends with people that own a t-shirt press - I just might do that. I'm probably not brave enough to wear it in the Castro district, though :)

# October 20, 2005 11:53 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

LOL, it might even get you preferred seating at the event.. in the 3rd stall of the men's restroom where the George Michael wannabe's hang out.

# October 20, 2005 12:34 PM

Jason Mauss said:

If you hear "Wake me up before you go-go" from the mens bathroom - I swear it's not me.

# October 20, 2005 12:36 PM

Roderick said:

Installing it directly did not work when I tried it.

Anyone else have any better luck or other options?

# October 24, 2005 9:19 PM

The Guy Getting the Job said:

ROFLMAO!!!1 Thanks dude! ;)

# October 25, 2005 11:08 AM

DarkForce said:

I tried to download and install the update too, and it did not work. I have heard that setting the URL of that activeX as trusted site might work, but have not yet tried.

# October 25, 2005 6:20 PM

Erik Porter said:

Ok, now a real comment...

Thanks, Jason, I really appreciate it. I'm definitely excited! :D

# October 25, 2005 7:23 PM

Scott C. Reynolds said:

make it say

I *Know* Raymond Lewallen

# October 25, 2005 11:13 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Heh....in the biblical sense...I like it.

I think it's gonna happen. Sorry Raymond, we'll be taking pics.

# October 25, 2005 11:55 PM

Scott C. Reynolds said:

dude i'm still page one results if you google "easpouse" I know. But that aside, EA would be an incredible experience and great resume fodder.

Yeah...netflix is a verb now. I use it all the time.

# October 26, 2005 3:18 AM

Bil Simser said:

Thanks for the link. I went around and checked out most of the SharePoint guys and posted it on my blog. BTW when I checked Scoble he came in about 2.2 million.

# October 26, 2005 11:36 AM

Seth said:

This update is breaking OWA for me on one workstation I have found on my network thus far. When logging into OWA, the email page gets stuck on Loading...

# October 26, 2005 11:43 AM

bestcomy said:

nice code.

# October 26, 2005 12:08 PM

Collin Yeadon said:

Bugger.. I got 1 wrong and it doesn't say which one.. "I should go buy a gun and shoot myself" is what I would have said in 8th grade.

# October 26, 2005 11:36 PM

Collin Yeadon said:

Ahh.. ok.. 5.5 squared I read to quick.. thought it was asking for the square root of 5.5 which would be no where nead 30.. Guess I don't need to buy that gun..

Math sucks.. :-)

# October 26, 2005 11:42 PM

Jason Mauss said:

actually - 5.5 squared is something like 27.5 - maybe you missed the mode/median/standard deviation question.

# October 26, 2005 11:54 PM

Web Hosting Review said:

My math is bad. :(

# October 27, 2005 5:48 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

2.2mil, wow, that's pretty incredible being that its (scoble's blog) one of the most worthless and wasted spaces on the internet.

# October 27, 2005 10:05 AM

Jon Galloway said:

See my comment on Lance's post. I got an informal January 2006 from Rob at our user group meeting. It would be great to hear something official, even if it's "we hope to..."

# October 28, 2005 8:03 PM

Paschal said:

Well last time I posted something about that (8 months ago I think) Scott was talking avbout July 2005. Now January 2006, 2008, doesn't make sense.
I think if Scott don't have time, he should tryu to hand over the project to people witha bit of time ! (Not me please I have enough on my plate).
I am sure a lot of competent people would be happy to help here.
That's why community services and business are not usually good friends :-)
Also I am not sure if we need the whole kaboodle which is CS actually. Too bloated too much stuff unecessary.
Maybe just the new .Text engine inside CS, would be enough! Or radically move the whole stuff to another blog engine with more support and maintenance.

# October 28, 2005 8:44 PM

Alex Lowe said:

I just posted the following comment to Lance's post as well:

It is our intention to upgrade the weblogs.asp.net blogs to Community Server 2.0 once we ship (which should be in December).

The full answer is that weblogs.asp.net is very low in priority. Why? Lots of reasons but it mostly boils down to resources (people and software/hardware).

I'm not making excuses but will give you an idea of why the site has not been upgraded. Telligent manages the asp.net site and you'll notice that on asp.net we advertise. We advertise to subsidize the cost of having development resources (used to build the next www.asp.net on ASP.NET 2.0 and upgrade the forums to Community Server among other things). Both the forums and www.asp.net run ads....weblogs.asp.net does not. Right now, weblogs.asp.net does nothing but cost money to operate (which we're happy to contine to support of course). It's not cheap either as weblogs.asp.net draws about the same amount of traffic as the whole of www.asp.net (so there are both bandwidth and server resources being used). These are not reasons in and of themselves for the upgrade to not take place but they are the reason that it has had such a low priority.

There aren't any resources we can provide to migrate the posts to another blog. That's definitely unfortunate but it is true. Ironically, I believe it will be easier to migrate after we upgrade to CS 2.0.

Additionally, while it might seem like a simple and logical solution to "just let the community do it" - it's not that simple. The weblogs.asp.net domain runs on two web servers and a database server that it shares with other *.asp.net sites. The logistics of being able to provide an adequate account for you to just do the technical work required would drive us to just do the upgrade ourselves. =) I'm not saying it couldn't be done but it would be much harder than just saying 'have at it guys'. There are a lot of implications to allowing external folks to have access to the machines/sites owned by Microsoft.

It's not hard to just use blogs with Community Server. Have you seen blogs.msdn.com? What does Community Server bloat on that site?

# October 28, 2005 9:08 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Thanks for the information Alex - that answers some questions. I'm definitely looking forward to being upgraded to CS 2.0 and thanks for continuing to provide this blogging service here.

I don't know about all the other people who have blogs here but - me personally - I wouldn't mind having ads on my blog if it helped you guys out.

# October 28, 2005 9:13 PM

Paschal said:

The difference with blogs.msdn.com is that I can#t blog there, it's obnly for Microsoft employees!
I hope I misunderstand, but it seems the idea is to push people doing their stuff elsewhere and close weblogs.asp.net. What a shame if it's true :-(
And the problem with the bandwidth let me laugh. If Microsoft can't handle it who will??
This is a community site and has a role as a role to play for Microsoft. So ads I don't mind, but the money collected should be controlled by the bloggers, not by Microsoft.
And a thing seems to be very unclear, who's in charge here? Scott, Alex or whoever? Teligent or Microsoft?

# October 29, 2005 6:22 AM

Alex Lowe said:

Paschal, you said that CS was too bloated to be used here and I was pointing out that it could be used here and that it was not too bloated for blogging (using blogs.msdn.com as an example). I didn't say that you could blog there or it was an alternative.

We don't want to push people elsewhere. At the same time, as I've already explained, we will make decisions about weblogs.asp.net based on resources. Hopefully everyone will hang on at least until we upgrade to CS 2.0.

The bandwidth alone is not a problem. It is, however, a cost that someone has to pay. One could argue that Microsoft should allocate more money to this project but I think you are overestimating the value that weblogs.asp.net brings Microsoft.

As I said in my original comment:

"Telligent manages the asp.net site and you'll notice that on asp.net we advertise. We advertise to subsidize the cost of having development resources (used to build the next www.asp.net on ASP.NET 2.0 and upgrade the forums to Community Server among other things). "

I thought it was pretty clear who is in charge. Telligent manages the day to day operations of all things *.asp.net. Microsoft obviously owns the domains and the content but they've delegated the work of maintaining the infrastcture, development, paying the bills, etc. to Telligent.

Because Telligent is paying the bills for the site, Telligent would collect any monies gained from showing ads. That money would of course be used to continue to improve all things *.asp.net (like migrating from CS 2.0 to CS 2.1 down the road, etc.).

# October 29, 2005 10:06 AM

Paschal said:

The strange thing Alex, and don't take that personal, is that you're coming out of the blue answering our questions. Why Scott is so silent? Who is part of the board to manage weblogs.asp.net? Who are you reharding weblogs.asp.net?
It's not looking like a very transparent project anyway. But I stay here just because I can use it to express my opinion

# October 29, 2005 10:47 AM

Alex Lowe said:

I suppose I'm coming out of the blue only because you don't hang out on www.asp.net for forums.asp.net. I've been the Program Manager for all of *.asp.net since February. I've managed the creation of beta.asp.net and the upgrade of the old forums to Community Server since that time. Regardless, the work and management of *.asp.net is not done by a "board" or a single person - it's done by a team of people at Telligent.

Don't worry about Scott. He's doing just fine and spends his time working on Community Server and managing that team of folks.

# October 29, 2005 11:03 AM

Scott said:

I am still here. This misconception is that I can read all of these blogs. If you have specific questions I can be contacted @ scottw at telligent dot com.

The contact form on my blog still works, but generally gets bombarded with lots of request. Not really excuse for not getting back to people...but it does complicate things.

My day to day responsibilities have shifted over the last year or so. Instead of doing all things .Text/weblogs.asp.net/CS myself, we now have various team members which are responsible for different tasks. In addition to being the PM on the www.asp.net work, Alex is also the lead PM on CS, so he is a great resource for questions related to the migration and management of this site.

We have been targeting updating this site to the post 1.1 bits of CS. Based on customer feedback/etc we expanded what when went into our vNext which is why the targeted upgrade time for this site has been pushed back until January 2006 or so. While it is possible to upgrade this site now, the management “tax” on managing sites on intermediary builds is quite large and can be very error prone. Rob/ScottD and others still blog on this site…so trust me; we want it updated as soon as it is possible. From the outside looking in, I can understand that it looks like a simple task, but there is much more to the problem.

HTH,
Scott

# October 29, 2005 11:21 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Thanks for spending some time here answering our questions - Scott and Alex. I'm sure lots of the weblogs.asp.net bloggers are looking forward to the 2.0 CS update in January.

# October 29, 2005 2:50 PM

Frans Bouma said:

"The bandwidth alone is not a problem. It is, however, a cost that someone has to pay. One could argue that Microsoft should allocate more money to this project but I think you are overestimating the value that weblogs.asp.net brings Microsoft. "
You're kidding, right?

Do a google search on any .NET problem. 10 to 1 that on the first page you get there is at least 1 weblogs.asp.net page listed.

Also, MS has one of the biggest pipes to the internet on the planet, last I heard it was several TB bandwidth. You're not going to sell me the idea that MS can't spend some bandwidth on a huge community resource for their .NET platform.

# October 30, 2005 5:17 AM

Alex Lowe said:

I've created a forum that will make it easy for us (Telligent) to share information and solicit feedback from the bloggers here at weblogs.asp.net. However, I need you to send me your username so I can add you to the appopriate role and give you more details. If you are interested in this kind of interaction then please send me your username via http://callmealex.com/contact.aspx

You can, of course, continue to post in the public whatever you want about Telligent. The forum will simply be a mechanism for us to share information that only pertains to the bloggers.

# October 30, 2005 10:13 PM

Dave Bouwman said:

Jason,

Nicely put. My theory is that many developers in the "sux" clan are sheltered from the business reality of software development, where what you write has to be worth the money someone paid you to develop it. And in the case of Microsoft, for the software to be worth something, it must be usable. Since their audience is "the world", the only way to get comprehensive feedback is to release it, and hope people actually provide feedback.

It would be interesting to hear from the "Live" team on the amount of feedback they are getting, and then check this against a blog search for live.com, and see how it stacks up.

Cheers,

Dave

# November 2, 2005 2:45 PM

Erik Porter said:

werd, brotha man!

I do have to wonder why MS keeps putting stuff out sooo early, because they have been getting a lot of negative comments. Maybe MS thinks it's worth it, not sure.

Definitely agree that the biggest problem is people aren't seeing the big picture about what this really is. Part of that can be blamed on people being stupid, but I also think part of it can be blamed on the marketing of it. But then again, it's so early, there really isn't any marketing for it. :P

Anyway, yah, good post...agreed.

# November 2, 2005 3:47 PM

Scott said:

Just found out over on Scobles blog that the start.com team also worked on the live.com project. Which makes the lack of Firefox support even more puzzling.

I'd love to give some feedback, but feedback on what? I've loaded up live.com in IE, ok can add gadgets. Just like start.com. I can search, just like start.com. I can add feeds, just like start.com. I can see my Hotmail. That's new.

So what am I supposed to be excited about? Microsofts potential?

# November 2, 2005 4:19 PM

Wim Hollebrandse said:

The whole point is that there's hardly a difference with start.com, as other people have rightly pointed out.

Not only that, but the fact that MS seems to have made such a big announcement about the site's launch and yet, to use your words, it's still rather unfinished and in progress.

I mean, let us know when there is something to check out that we can be excited about...for now it's just same old, same old.

# November 2, 2005 6:18 PM

Rob Lohman said:

I had a real chuckle on your login screen. Looks (and reads) awesome! Will be interesting to see how everything develops. Good luck!

Rob
visuar@iname.com

# November 3, 2005 7:59 AM

Ron Shelton said:

I think MS make it worse for themselves in the way they hype this stuff up. The press release I read about Windows Live made it sound like MS had redesigned the Internet.

While it's a nice simple portal site, Live.com is far from living up to the hype that has been created. I think the possibility of community developed gadgets makes it a potential hit, but we will have to wait and see.

As for the other "Live" offerings like:

Online Virus Scanner - McAfee and others have had this for a long time, and many of us remember MS's last attempt at created virus scanning software.

Search - Google works fine for my searching needs, and last time I fell for the hype from MS and tried using the new search the released on MSN a few months back - I was sorely dissappointed.

IM - Doesn't sound like anything new and exciting (Press released mentioned sharing files and pictures - oooo). Internet based voice calls has been around a loooong time.

OneCare - Sounds exactly like Windows Update.

The mobile favorites sounds promising.

Had the hype not been so overdone, people might be more accepting - but you feel like someone is playing a joke on you when the hype vs. content differ this much. It's bound to get some backlash. Eventually, the backlash will subside and people will start to give it more of a chance.

# November 3, 2005 8:25 AM

Ron Shelton said:

Just thought I would add some case evidence to support my argument:

Bill Gates speaking about Windows Live:

"It's a revolution in how we think about software," Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told reporters and industry analysts Tuesday. "This is a big change for...every part of the ecosystem."

Later in the same article, the author notes:

"In many cases, Windows Live -- available at Live.com -- will offer souped-up versions of services like online mapping and instant messaging that have long been available on Microsoft's MSN.com, a heavily trafficked site that will continue to operate."

Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/biztech/11/02/microsoft.online.ap/index.html?section=cnn_tech

# November 3, 2005 2:51 PM

Erik Porter said:

Lookin' good so far, Jason! :)

# November 3, 2005 2:54 PM

Ron Shelton said:

DevCampus is incredible. It's going to revolutionize the way we as humans think and form ideas. It will have a profound effect on every aspect of every waking and non-waking moment of our lives!

Just kidding - actually it does look pretty cool. I like the UI - very sleek. Looking foward to your launch.

# November 3, 2005 5:10 PM

Jason Mauss said:

LOL @ Ron

I can't wait to reveal my DevCampus "Live" service to you guys.. hahaha

# November 3, 2005 5:27 PM

Alex Papadimoulis said:

Holy fxing crap. The "real" one is so much cooler than the one in Detroit. I see you have no mention of abundant amounts of free food. Sure, it's no AC/DC, but it was the highlight of my Launch Party experience. Woo.

# November 9, 2005 10:10 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Oh, there was plenty of free food too Alex - everywhere you turned there was a table full of food. They probably even had a lot of left over food from lunch and the after party.

# November 9, 2005 12:37 PM

BradC said:

Wow, the OC Chopper folks were there?

Is that a custom Microsoft Bike of some sort? The pictures look very cool, but don't show much detail about it.

# November 9, 2005 12:50 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Hey Brad - yeah that was a custom Microsoft Bike that was made for the "SQL Server Giveaway" - they were showing it off at the event. They also raffled off some nice leather OC Chopper jackets during the event.

# November 9, 2005 1:37 PM

Alex Papadimoulis said:

Allright Jason, you inspried me to write my *own* review. I still am incredibly jealous, by the way. :-P

http://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/archive/2005/11/09/430091.aspx

# November 9, 2005 1:51 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Nice post Alex - I see they handed out the free Rockstar "Pseudo-Energy" drinks at yours too, eh?

# November 9, 2005 1:57 PM

Jason F said:

I was fortunate to have attended both events (got a little sleep on the red-eye in between). There's a lot already on my blog, but I've got more pictures and at least two more posts to write before I think I've done a complete braindump of the back-to-back experience.

I would summarize in saying that I was a little disappointed with Detroit's event, chiefly because I saw what spending hundreds of thousands of dollars more on an event gives you. But, in talking with event attendees, they were pretty happy with Detroit's overall, and that's all that matters.

# November 9, 2005 10:41 PM

Mihir Solanki said:

Excellent, Its on my desktop now ...

# November 11, 2005 4:04 AM

Eric Hammersley said:

Very nice... thanks for taking the time to post your work.

# November 11, 2005 8:26 AM

Sonu Kapoor said:

I like it. Its on my desktop :)

# November 11, 2005 10:30 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Glad you guys like it enough to put it on your desktop! :)

# November 11, 2005 10:48 AM

Sonu Kapoor said:

One feedback: I dont like the small icons in there. They conflict with my existing icons on the desktop - otherwise very nice.

# November 11, 2005 3:56 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Hi Sonu - if you'd like I could remove the icons for you if you want to use it...it's just a layer of the image. If you want to let me know what resolution you need.

# November 11, 2005 6:13 PM

Kumar said:

I agree with Sonu Kapoor. The small icons infact conflict with the icons on the desktop. It would be nice if you can make an alternative wallpaper

# November 11, 2005 6:20 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Well then - I've put up each resolution without the icons now. Thanks for the feedback!

# November 11, 2005 6:30 PM

Sonu Kapoor said:

Looks great now Jason. I am using it on my personal laptop at home as well. Thanks ;)

# November 11, 2005 7:34 PM

DonX said:

Isn't this one of those "get a life" moments?

# November 11, 2005 9:45 PM

Keyvan Nayyeri said:

Thank you for these great wallpapers :)

# November 11, 2005 11:50 PM

Farsi said:

Very nice background with amazing colours.

# November 12, 2005 7:12 AM

Frans Bouma said:

Don't laugh, but there are actually a couple of MSN MVP's... :)

# November 13, 2005 6:23 AM

David Findley said:

A MVP logo for solitare would be kinda funny as well. I'm my own MVP! or I'm an SOL MVP.

# November 13, 2005 7:44 AM

David Findley said:

Oh one more thing: I'm sure when you said "photoshop" you really meant "MS Expression Graphic Designer" aka Acrylic.

just kidding.

# November 13, 2005 7:47 AM

Stefano Demiliani said:

I want to be an MVP for Notepad! :)

# November 13, 2005 8:14 AM

Scott Allen said:

It's the XBOX MVPs who make the real sacrifices.

# November 13, 2005 9:23 AM

Marcus Mac Innes said:

Hillarious!

# November 13, 2005 12:07 PM

Emrah ÖZcan said:

I want to be the MVP for C#! (:))

# November 13, 2005 2:34 PM

BradC said:

Heh. Minesweeper mvp?

# November 13, 2005 4:33 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Frans - Seriously? Wow...I guess they...uhh...wait ..I have no idea how you could become an MSN MVP.

Solitaire, Minesweeper and Notepad...haha I'm gonna have to make those as well.

# November 13, 2005 4:38 PM

Marcie said:

I want to be a Command Prompt MVP.

# November 13, 2005 9:14 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Oohh - that's a good one Marcie - come back in a little while and I'll have it made for ya

# November 13, 2005 9:17 PM

Alex Papadimoulis said:

Congratulations, man. All those hours chatting on the IM did pay off afterall!

# November 13, 2005 11:56 PM

Frans Bouma said:

" Frans - Seriously? Wow...I guess they...uhh...wait ..I have no idea how you could become an MSN MVP. "
Me neither, but at the summit, everyone had a badge with a given color. I saw a guy who had a color I hadn't seen on any other badges... I looked closer... MSN MVP.

Now, msn has a lot of options, but still... oh well. If he's happy, I'm happy ;)

# November 14, 2005 5:04 AM

Web Hosting Review said:

It's cool ! :)

# November 14, 2005 5:41 AM

Tim Marman said:

By the way, it's "flair" not "flare".

# November 14, 2005 8:07 AM

Omer van Kloeten said:

I want to be a Microsoft Linux MVP! :D

# November 14, 2005 12:22 PM

Scott Bellware said:

I want to be a Typed DataSet MVP. If you could make a logo with a guy with an ass where his head should be, I think that should about do it :)

# November 15, 2005 5:40 PM

alessio.marziali said:

On my desktop.
Nice Work! Thanks!

# November 18, 2005 10:55 AM

Darren Neese said:

OMG!

Dude, I'm worried about you man...are you still taking your meds?

Years back you were a charter member MCSD in .net...then a few weeks back I heard you were doing animated gif's...now you're got your MOUS (not to be confused with MAUSS) cert in Word....omg..now an msn mvp.

...and to think you were the top expert on askme.com on programming. :(

# November 21, 2005 3:33 AM

Darren Neese said:

OMG...

I find your stereotype of African-American / Hispanic / bouncer / security guy offensive. Please change!

# November 21, 2005 3:36 AM

Scott C. Reynolds said:

No page curl?

# November 22, 2005 12:27 PM

Marcie said:

How about Volume Control MVP? Now there's a Microsoft technology I really feel like I've got down pat.

# December 1, 2005 12:54 PM

Stephen Swienton said:

If Marcie is going to by a Volume Control MVP, then I want to be the Sound Recorder MVP. No, wait - I want to be the Character Map MVP!! © ۞ ♀

# December 1, 2005 5:58 PM

Andy said:

How about Windows Tour MVP ;-)

# December 1, 2005 6:00 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Hahaha, you guys are nuts. Volume Control, Sound Recorder, and Charmap. Oh, and Windows Tour, lol. Maybe there can be a balloon help MVP, too. "I can show people how to click their balloon help like nobody's bueinss!".

# December 1, 2005 6:14 PM

Stephen Swienton said:

Nice, balloon help, almost as good as my Windows "Toast" MVP

# December 1, 2005 6:32 PM

David Stone said:

How about a Start Button MVP?

# December 1, 2005 6:59 PM

jayson knight said:

I'm a folder options MVP by all definitions...on a fresh install of Windows I can change the folder options to what I need in under a minute :-).

# December 2, 2005 2:21 AM

Jason Mauss said:

You're not the only one Jayson. ;-)

Hide extensions for commonly known file types. un-check
Show hidden files and folders. - check
Display the contents of system folders. - check
Hide protected operating system files. - uncheck. YES, I'm sure.
Remember each folders view settings. - uncheck.
Show Control Panel in My Computer. - check.

And most importantly - "Apply to All Folders" - heh...that's all I can remember from memory....

# December 2, 2005 2:25 AM

Marcie said:

Oh good, if Swienton is Sound Recorder MVP, as Volume Control MVP I can finally make him be silent! ;)

Marcie

# December 2, 2005 8:36 AM

jayson knight said:

Hey Jason...none of the images are displaying, and I hotlinked to the notepad MVP one so it's blanking out on my site (yeah, I should have copied it to my drive I guess).

And yeah, those are the exact steps for folder options!

# December 2, 2005 7:19 PM

Jason Mauss said:

I'll check on the server they are hosted on. They're not displaying on my blog, either, which makes me think maybe the server they're on is down or something. They'll be back up soon, probably. They're on a server at MaximumASP.

# December 2, 2005 7:22 PM

Ryan said:

You're missing the obvious one... "Screensaver MVP". I'm awesome at making that work.

"Hmmm, the screensaver isn't on? OK, don't use the mouse and keyboard for awhile... That did it? Sweet! Anytime you need help with the screensaver just ask."

# December 2, 2005 9:58 PM

Jay Miller said:

Thanks for the heads up. I spoke with Jon Thursday and seeing you post and took a technical test last night. I'm hoping I'll be part of the ASPSOFT team soon.

Jay

# December 3, 2005 11:09 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Cool Jay - hope things work out for you. Glad to hear my post was actually helpful. :)

# December 3, 2005 2:07 PM

jayson knight said:

So what's your alias over on the CS.org website? Welcome to the big bad world of CS!

# December 3, 2005 7:05 PM

Jason Mauss said:

my alias over there is 'jamauss'

# December 3, 2005 9:13 PM

Bill said:

J - My girlfriend Kim is a technical writer and she's been working toward learning to be an ASP.NET developer. If you guys could use a volunteer that's a professional technical writer and literate in ASP.NET, let me know and I'll put y'all in contact with each other, I *know* she'd be very excited to volunteer on that. And besides, putting her in contact with you would get her some exposure to experienced ASP.NET devs - the whole CC thing I mentioned on my blog left her a little out in left field ;-)

# December 6, 2005 7:02 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Awesome Bill - if you want to, send me her e-mail addy (through my contact form on here) and I'll hook her up with some info and let her see/hear what she'd be getting herself into ;-)

I think CC probably leaves everyone feeling a little...out of place...heh.

# December 6, 2005 7:07 PM

Bill said:

Lucky SOB - Tufte is the friggin coolest. Did you get any of his artwork?

# December 9, 2005 10:22 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Ya, I got the Minard poster of Napoleon's Army march to Russia and back and also one other one, forgot what it was called. And yeah, Tufte is awesome. It's like the guy know everything about everything.

# December 9, 2005 1:43 PM

Wim Hollebrandse said:

Good stuff.

It's an indication of the general level of support from big companies dealing in electronic equipment, that we seem almost amazed when this kinda thing happens.

# December 10, 2005 2:10 PM

Shunjie said:

My LCD monitor is having the same problem too!!

Just from personal experience, a list of good n bad vendors for customer service:

Fujitsu - Very good. Very friendly and approachable. I am a geek and so they speak with me in geek terms (all the hardware stuff, etc..haha)

O2 - Eh...no good. I send in my xphone2 and they promise to help me upgrade firmware and its not done. Xphone2 hang for countless times after the repair. I wonder wat they have done.

Creative - Not bad. =)

Samsung - Not sure. But my mp3 player just spoilt in less than 4 months. Gg to the support center tomoro. ha.

# December 12, 2005 11:33 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

Personally, I, in general, have good customer service experiences, with the exception of Dell. And as far as Dell is concerned, its not the customer service I have a problem with. Its their policies regarding warranties and replacements of parts and/or products.

# December 12, 2005 11:35 AM

Bawb said:

Bih' when you gonna make nother' post. Bawss would be mighty proud of you if you were to do so.

# December 23, 2005 2:26 PM

Plip said:

What is Newsvine ?

# January 6, 2006 4:44 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Hey Phil - it's similar to Digg. Newsvine is kind of a social news network.

# January 6, 2006 4:52 AM

Stefano Demiliani said:

I can agree with you that DHTML will be the winner but don't deprecate too much ClickOnce and Smart Client Applications. Smart Client are an extremely powerful technology that can bring together the advantages of a Winform application and web application, with the (enormous) advantage that they can work connected or disconnected from the network. I believe a lot on them... :)

# January 6, 2006 8:16 AM

Valentin Iliescu [MVP C#] said:

What about Web Browser Application (WBA) concept from WPF/Avalon?

1. No deployment - online mode only. OK, the application is deployed and run on the client, but this is done in a transparent way (no end-user interaction)
2. In Vista they will just work - no plug-in installation etc.
3. Visually rich.

# January 6, 2006 12:34 PM

Jason Mauss said:

While I would agree that WPF/Avalon shows promise...I think it still has to prove itself.

# January 6, 2006 2:14 PM

Paul Ballard said:

So DHTML = DOG? I'd buy that! I won't bother going through all of the various arguments I have against AJAX, you can read that in my blog, but I think you are declaring a winner before the fight is really getting started. Also, don't think that just because YOU have never had a network outage that nobody else has. We are geeks with ethernet cables in every room, internet on our phones, etc. We are NOT the norm.

# January 6, 2006 2:17 PM

Abdu said:

Winform works in Windows only therefore I don't expect it to prevail regardless if it's superior.

# January 6, 2006 6:21 PM

David Findley said:

It looks as if your logged on as administrator so that bad boy is running with full privliges! Yikes!

# January 8, 2006 10:11 PM

David Findley said:

Btw, I've been running mine 24/7 and msnmsgr.exe is only using about 20M. Google talk is using about 10M. So considering how much more bloated uhmmm I mean feature rich Live Messenger is this doesnt seem to bad to me.

I'm thinking this is why the have a Beta program. To uncover these problems.

# January 8, 2006 10:14 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Yeah, on that machine (it's a machine I use just for testing out Beta's, CTP's, Release Candidates, etc.) I usually log in as admin, otherwise I get a rash of error messages informing me I don't have privileges to do x, y, and z.

After killing the msnmsgr.exe process and running it again (and just closing it to the notification area - not IM'ing anyone or anything) it's using 42mb or memory. The machine it's running on has 1.5gb of memory so it's not a huge problem, though.

# January 8, 2006 10:38 PM

jayson knight said:

42mb is still a bit heavy IMO, especially since my Trillian is sitting at ~10mb :-). That being said, I also gave the WLM beta a test run over the weekend, and absolutely hated it. Looks like they're targeting teenie-boppers. Maybe they'll offer versions based on age range.

# January 9, 2006 2:21 AM

Bil Simser said:

Not sure why yours is running so high, I run mine all the time and it never caps over 15mb which is fine IMHO.

# January 9, 2006 2:26 AM

David Taylor said:

I hope they are reading your blog....that is the sort of thing a dev might not pick up immediately.

# January 9, 2006 3:59 AM

Keith Ellis said:

I've followed sifr for a few years now and would love an invite if you have any extra.

# January 9, 2006 7:47 AM

AndrewSeven said:

I willing to tolerate a lot in order to have Offline Messages, but there is still a limit.

After a bit of usage, the only other change that I've noticed is the ugly and clunky UI.

One person I sent an invite to even said : "the orange thing make me feel sick"

# January 9, 2006 10:43 AM

jayson knight said:

@Andrew: The newest MSN plugin for Trillian 3.x supports offline messages out of the box...just an FYI.

# January 9, 2006 5:49 PM

Nish said:

I ran into this too - but that was before I had any invites. Once I got some invites, that link worked properly. It's a beta and it really behaves like a beta, eh? :-)

# January 9, 2006 10:36 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Ya man, kind of an understatement, really.

# January 9, 2006 11:15 PM

Matt Hawley said:

Same here - just go to ideas.live.com and once you log into passport, you'll see "You have X number of invites - Send Invite" or something like that for the Windows Live Messenger Beta section.

# January 10, 2006 1:45 AM

Deepesh Shah said:

Hey,

Once you sign in at ideas.live.com and then visit the Live messenger section you should see the red link for your number of invites (if you have any)

# January 10, 2006 6:37 AM

AndrewSeven said:

LOL

When I first clicked it, it worked, it told me that I had no invites.
Eventualy I got some invites.
Yesterday I tried to use it to send an invite and got the bad url

# January 10, 2006 8:58 PM

Joe Philipson said:

If anyone has any invites I'd like one please...

Thanks,
Joe

# January 10, 2006 10:09 PM

Jason Mauss said:

What's your e-mail address Joe? get that to me and I'll invite you.

# January 10, 2006 11:53 PM

sandro said:

hi jason, could you please invite me?

sandro at tank.no please!

cheers

# January 12, 2006 9:16 AM

troy said:

Invite troberson at daxko.com

# January 12, 2006 3:09 PM

backpacker said:

I'd also appreciate an invitation for backpack at eigenarbeit dot org
thanks!

# January 12, 2006 4:33 PM

Jason Mauss said:

backpacker - I don't have any invitations to give out for BackPack, sorry...that's why the post said "Newsvine" in it.

# January 12, 2006 4:35 PM

spantizzle said:

does anyone have any spare invites?
I would like one too.

# January 13, 2006 12:03 AM

trick said:

I think "backpack at eigenarbeit dot org" is the dude's email, he's asking for a newsvine invite.

i'd like one too if you still have some. mattpalmer at gmail dot com

# January 13, 2006 1:00 PM

Bill said:

Jason - is the version you're using "Windows Live Messenger"? If not, are you interested in it?

# January 14, 2006 7:30 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Yeah, it's the "Windows Live Messenger".

# January 14, 2006 7:46 PM

Christian said:

does anyone have any spare invites?
I also would like one.
Many thaks,
Christian
cceleste (at) gmail.com

# January 22, 2006 6:38 AM

Cesar said:

is there any spare invite left?
i would really like one!
thank you anyhow

cesarpn at gmail dot com

# January 23, 2006 8:36 AM

Rachel Baker said:

If any is still dishing out the invites!

sm4llphry at gmail.com

# January 23, 2006 1:06 PM

lauone said:

lauone at gmail.com

# January 24, 2006 12:49 AM

Michael said:

Hey, I'm really into social news site, and I would love to check out newsvine. If anyone has an extra invite i would love one. rdknight82@gmail.com
Thanks

# January 24, 2006 8:07 AM

Eduardo said:

hi jason, could you please invite me?
eduvieira at gmail
thank you!

# January 24, 2006 10:18 AM

dezao said:

inviti me, please!!!
dezaodemais@gmail.com

# January 24, 2006 11:58 AM

Aaron said:

I'd like to be an invite leech too! :-)

Many thanks.

aaron r benson at gmail dot com

# January 24, 2006 1:54 PM

Jeremy Botter said:

I realize everyone is asking over and over again for an invite, but I figured I'd toss my name up here just in case. botterATgmail.com.

# January 24, 2006 10:16 PM

Michael said:

Jason, Thank You for the invite. Totally appericate it!

# January 25, 2006 8:33 AM

Jon said:

If still giving out invites to the beta, please to be inviting, crapulent@gmail.com

thank you

# January 26, 2006 1:47 AM

CadMnky said:

I'd like an invite if you still have some availible

cadmnky at yahoo dot com

# January 26, 2006 10:04 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Just so everyone is aware - I'm all out of invites. I was given 20 and they're all used up. Sorry folks.

# January 26, 2006 2:03 PM

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# October 23, 2007 6:04 PM

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I have a dilemna whether to use plural or singular table names.

This is because in English plural names are not always formed in the same way. E.g. car->cars, quiz->quizzes->ox-oxen (or some people may think it's oxes or just ox). Then you have fish->fish as well as data->data. This might cause some confusion among team members as to what the naming convention really is.

Borrowing form Object Oriented theory, class names must always be singular, although multiple instances of it may be created. Granted, relational theory is not OO theory.

The PHP framework I am testing out now (CakePHP) always uses plurals for table names. But CakePHP has an inflector which automatically knows the plural form of any given noun.

The dilemna continues. It may seem a trivial one, but convention is certainly important.

# December 3, 2007 8:47 PM

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# December 4, 2007 8:19 AM

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I've used XHEO for a while now, and to be honest I'm not really satisfied with it. It increased the size of my component library by triple, it's got a lot of bells and whistles in the library itself that I don't feel I really need. The customer service leaves a bit to be desired, but I know it's just one or two guys working part time from home, and I can tolerate that because I'm doing the samething.

Anyhow, you're best off developing your own Licensing system if you have the ability. It's worth the trouble if you really want to protect your software.

# December 12, 2007 2:34 PM

Mitch said:

Regarding table names being plural or singular:

IMHO it depends on what each row in the table represents. In the majority of applications, each row models a singular object or type of object.

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Not the exact same problem, but usefull for other people who look at this thread.

# April 2, 2008 1:08 PM

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# May 28, 2008 3:22 PM

Mark said:

Not to beat a dead horse (because PETA would have a fit), but concerning the plurality of table names. Here's my "thinking out loud". Is it so bad to have table names "naturally plural" and the pk columns singular? For example, the Activities table has a primary key field of ActivityId. The table does contain a group of activities, and the individual row contains one activity and is therefore named ActivityId.

What I mean about "naturally plural" is if you have a table "Fish" it contains a collection of multiple fish. The primary key column would also be named fish, which is the singular form of the word because one row is one (singular) fish.

Like I said, just thinking out loud.

Mark

# May 29, 2008 11:33 AM

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Do not use generic field names like status. There can be many different kinds of status: account, customer, order, payment, product, etc. This makes it easy, for example, to find all references to orderStatus. It may make the names longer, but is well worth it in a large DB.

DateAdded

Many tables need a dateAdded field. Use the same name in all tables or you’ll go nuts having to look up what it is called. For example auditlog.dateadded and orders.dateadded instead of auditlog.logdate and orders.orderdate.

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Many people advocate calling the PK field ID and FK fields tablenameID. One good thing about this is that it lets you easily find FK references. The bad thing about it is that it becomes very difficult to find all primary key references for a given table, since they are all named ID.

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An alternative is to name PK as tablenamePK and FK as tablenameFK. This is the easiest way to quickly find whatever it is that you are looking for. The only problem is that some people have been using ID for so long that they have a hard time adjusting to PK/FK. However, as long as it is done consistently then coding is very easy, e.g. where table1.table1pk=table2.table1fk.

# June 3, 2008 1:01 PM

Tariq Changgez said:

This article is a great source for developers. I in the initial stage of designing an HR + Payroll application database, and I will apply most of the rules specified in this article.

By the way I just shifted from Delphi (Pascal based) environement to Visual Studio, and I am quite comfortable with Pascal type naming convensions.

Great Job.

# June 4, 2008 3:07 AM

Mark Brady said:

@ Tariq:

An HR/Payroll app? Really? that hasn't been done to death?

ff_mac said "Using tablenameID for both FK and PK gets rid of the name collision of the ID field but means that you can’t easily find FK references separate from PK references."

Huh? you have no constraint table to query that defines PKs and FKs. No it's not hard to tell the difference in any real RDBMS. What is hard is to find missing constraints left by sloppy developers when the column changes name from table to table.

Plural table names: I can always tell the people who never script changes to their databases. If you have a COMPANIES table is the ID column Companies_ID? That makes no sense. When you start to write code that builds code, you'll want this to be very, very regular.

%table_name% = Name of the table.

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If I had to guess at plurals it would make this process much more difficult.

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just my $0.02

# July 17, 2008 6:52 PM

Ian Qvist said:

It depends on the demands of the application. Should you focus on extensibility? (Service pattern, modules, third party authentication systems) Consistency? (Factory pattern) or something else?

I would personally base my design on extensibility. Later you might switch to something like OpenID for authentication and that would be easier if you had a clear interface between your application and the authentication mechanism.

Abstract away the authentication part. Make sure to use interfaces (as minimal as possible. By that I mean lightweight) to define a low coupled architecture between application and authentication.

As for the registration part, do as you see fit. I would do the same thing as with the authentication part.

BTW: Why not use a DAL (Data Access Layer) generation tool such as Subsonic, NHibernate or LINQ?

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In my srcsafe.ini file . . .

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*.cs = "// "

Any idea what I did wrong for the VB.NET files?

Thanks in advance,

Kurt

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I agree to some of the rules and disagree about others. But in the end this is normal, there are lots of constraints and variables playing.

I'm not developing on .NET at this moment but i did, and i think it is interesting to make the db naming convention technology-independent, so i think it is important to not mix db naming with coding preferences.

Some points:

I used to pluralize table names according to what has been said here: Tables are the relational synonymous of oop's collections. But after facing the above mentioned problems i am making some concessions.

I disagree about the PascalCase notation, i like it and i use it in my code but i think it is not necessary to use it on the db. If you use an ORM framework, it eliminate the problem by creating a translation layer. You can still have a UserRole class but your table can be named actually user_role. I think it is highly recomended to use them whenever it is possible.

I had problems with UpperCases on some servers and now i think it is better to despense with them.

Of course, if you are going to have heavy Stored Procedures you will have a lot of code in your db but i think an ORMs and a good data access layer helps a lot.

Also i used to build up my junction tables names by joining the related tables names, but sometimes this aproach has the disadvantage of the neverending table names, so i am not sure about this but sometimes i try to find i meaningful name for the relation, for example: if i have a pair of car & car_identifier tables i prefer to name the junction table car_identification rather than car_car_identifier. Also i think it is always needed two have different symbols to distinguish between tables names and table name individual words (using PascalCase naming or not).

In the example above, using PascalCase naming you would name it: CarCarIdentifier, what i think it is not clear. If you use lower case & underscores the result would be: car_car_identifier wich isn't clear either. So i use a double underscore to separate table names from individual words: car__car_identifier. I know, this may look awful :), but i think in a priority order it is first the compatibility with external conditions, and i did not like when i had to change all my PascalCase named table & fields to lowercase because of some technical constraints.

So now, and for me: database & code are different things and i don't look for beauty in the db. I give priority to compatibility and order. It is only my point of view.

I find very useful this post and encourage everybody to build a stronger convention.

Great job.

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I am not currently following a convention per se, but I intend to do so in the future.

I have always favoured pluralised table names, but I may switch to singular names in the future, as they seem like the way forward to me. For instance, my take on the project/activity example above would be:

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name VARCHAR(100),

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id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,

name VARCHAR(100),

project_id INT NOT NULL,

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FROM project

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End If

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i check it works fine.. thanks again Eric

from: AJPatel

hi guys,

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