Mathew Nolton Blog

I am going to be writing another article for TheServerSide.Net. I wrote an article back in March about using Validators in the Middle-Tier http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showarticle.tss?id=Validators .

To follow-up on yesterday's blog entry about why we should be spending our time learning Object Databases as opposed to building O/R Mappers.

There is so much hype about O/R Mappers these days. Visiting Igor Miovanovic's blog got me thinking about persistence frameworks I have written in the past. One in particular was pretty nice. It generated a great deal of code for you using templates that were modeled similarly to ASP.

The Configuration Management Application Block, CMAB, is a great tool for managing configuration data. If you wish to manage data outside of app.config or web.config, and IMHO it is the tool of choice. However, there are some design flaws with CMAB's XmlSerializableHashtable.

A friend of mine pointed this out, so if you are in the mood for a bit of R&R from software design and architecture, take a look at http://www.mulletwigs.com.

Several months ago I got into a debate on GotDotNet about the place of procedural languages in our programming world. During the course of the discussion my line of thinking evolved on the subject. At first I felt, why bother with a procedural language, when an OO language such as c# can be used? However since this discussion, I firmly believe that procedural languages have their place in our world. For example,

I have received quite a bit of feedback from this post Forcing a Postback using ASP.Net and JavaScript as well as a quite a few emails that go into some detail about how you modified it to fit your needs. The comments people have posted have also helped others....

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