Joe Healy just called me to see if Thursday the 21st was a good day for the Day of Ajax. He just found out that the room was double booked, so we had to change our time. Hopefully, all of you who were coming can make it a day later. If not I'll plan on re-doing my presentation for the Tampa CodeCamp...

[I'm doing an experiment. I'm writing this post using Writely and FireFox instead of using the CodeBetter Editor and IE6... BTW it didn't work... I guess I need to try something else] Over the last month during the holidays and my own blogging block I have been reading a book on Patterns (Yes, DonXML...

Well, at least the ones I've tried. Let's take a quick jump back down memory lane... something that Frans Bouma said to me way back here ( http://codebetter.com/blogs/jay.kimble/archive/2005/06/01/63937.aspx#63954 ) struck a chord. I don't know ORMs that well, and despite my misgivings over Dynamic SQL...

My co-worker, Rob Teixeira, MVP (he makes me put those three characters --"MVP-- in if I'm going to quote him), sent me a nice little tidbit today in email. It's a performance assessment (I won't call it a test) of the Enterprise Services vs. TCP Remoting vs. XML Web Services. The Article is here . The...

[I've been busy lately; sorry I haven't blogged much. Working For the How To Select Guides has kept me pretty busy]. During the whole ORM debate on my blog here, both Frans and Paul Wilson pointed out a couple things with using tools like CodeSmith that I have been pondering (BTW, if I haven't mentioned...

I made an interesting discovery at work today. I finally had to work on a piece of code that I have always found ways to hand off to someone else. It was written by a former colleague who absolutely loved JavaScript and Remote Scripting (aka AJAX... don't argue with me they are the same thing more or...

I've been thinking about a number of things lately as I look at a number of technologies. I think there's a growing programmer's revolt against the DBAs. Maybe I'm crazy, but it sure seems like that is what is happening (and no I'm not talking about Frans' comment or my response in another blog entry...

I've done a bit of reading over the last couple days. DonXML mentioned Domain Driven Design (DDD) in a comment . This led me to a series of posts from Steve Eichert on DDD. This post of Steve's was very intriguing to me. He talks about the need for UI Mappers and how they could potentially make life...

I'm sick today, so I spent sometime looking at some OOP patterns (isn't that what you do when you're sick?) I found this website a while back. I had looked at the factory patterns before, and had been trying to think through the when angle of these. Some of these patterns it is suggested that you should...

[Please excuse me as I'm trying to get my blogging form back... With the life juggling I've been doing lately, I've not been able to really devote myself to blogging the way I would like to] I had a friend of mine remind me about Eric's Domain Manager Pattern (which is found here ). I had yet to read...