Archives
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Early thoughts on POP Forums for Whidbey
I had a nice little conversation with some architect types at my current contract gig today regarding my open source project, POP Forums. I was greeted with a real surprise when talking about data: Not one thought I needed stored procedures.
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Disrespecting the Bill
I was really put off by this post by Ajay Juneja. I don't care so much about what he did or didn't do, or what he said, it was his classmates in general.
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Getting the bling with the gig
I've learned an important lesson the last few weeks:
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For the people, by the people
I hate when people post in forums and refer to everyone as “people.”
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A Mac lover in a Windows developer
My wife Stephanie got her little 12” iBook this week. It's killing me because I like it so much better than my big clunky HP laptop.
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Salesforce.com: I missed an opportunity
Salesforce.com is heading toward an IPO. You have no idea how much I kick myself in the ass everytime I hear about their success.
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Messing with code generators and dreaming of ObjectSpaces
I've used code generators in various environments, but I never really thought about writing my own. I then realized that I tend to write a lot of similar data access classes for smaller projects, where I can bundle data access and business objects in the same class. I run into that a lot on smaller little consulting things. I know some people hate that and say you should always separate them, but whatever. If I get $3k for a little Web project it's not going to happen.
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Poor physical coding environments
Who was the rocket scientist that decided cubicle office environments were a good idea? I agree that certain occupations might be well suited for this, but programming is not one of them.
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Understanding event wire-ups in ASP.NET and Visual Studio
Almost forgot that I posted this to <uber:ASP.Net> last night...
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Getting sucked into Apple culture
They opened up an Apple store here in the Greater Cleveland area, in a real trendy area on the east side in a trendy new outdoor mall. Make no mistake... I am a devout iPod user and there are more than 100 songs so far from the iTunes music store on the little guy.
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Help a code monkey out...
Fellow developers, I need a little help. I was reading this post about the rough release schedule for the Whidbey beta, and it's troubling.
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Wi-Fi in weird places
I coach 17 open Olympic volleyball for a club in Cleveland. We have practice today at an elementary school that I've not yet been to. Not knowing how long it would take to get here from the other side of town, having to cross through downtown, I just went for it. Better early than late.
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Stored procedures, business logic and certifications
I was getting into it on another site with this guy who insists that you should apply business rules to data in stored procedures, going as far as to quote something either on MSDN or in a certification training book. I disagreed with him but he was sure he was right.
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When do you stop with the extensibility?
The current project I'm on is with a major insurance company replacing, over the next four years, its old mainframe policy processing system. It's all fairly organized, but there are two problems that are making it less than fun.
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First Post!!!111111
I own the T-shirt, but I always wanted an excuse to be lame and post it online somewhere.