Even though it's been more than a month and a half, I'm still bothered by the fact that a room full of ASP.NET MVPs applauded Scott Guthrie when he showed off the new color picker in Orcas. I was P/O'd because Scott wasted our time with that (and countless other trivialities), and P/O'd...

(Apologies for the relative lack of posts, I’m working on something brand new which I hope to be able to share with the community in the coming month…stay tuned). Warning: this might come out as a ramble of thoughts…. I was doing some light research tonight about domain layers and...

I just spent 30 seconds trying to list all of the current presentation technologies offered by Microsoft. I didn't include stuff like Access and OOXML, but I'm sure the list is far from complete. I did list HTML because it's a valid choice for Windows Media Center. Windows Media Center Presentation...

There's a post over at SitePoint calling Page_Load evil . The complaint is pretty much that because it's automatically there (VS.NET generates the Page_Load handler by default) people just cram everything in there. Technically some broad statements about Page_Load are made which I don't agree...

I'm dealing with string-based inputs that actually represent integers. The system is under very tight performance constraints - tens of thousands of users on it at the same time with frequent server interaction (i.e., they aren't spending 10 minutes reading a page). The hubris starts to kick...

I've always been pretty vocal about my anti-dataset views. I also don't think databases should be treated as dumb repositories - they should be leveraged. This in-between attitude, which I think is actually fairly common, means I end up writing a lot more code than either dataset users or OO...

A while ago, Sonu of DotNetSlackers asked if I'd be interested in writing for the site. I've been a long time fan of what DotNetSlackers stood for (trying to bring some order to this vast community of ours), so I was more than happy to oblige. I'm a huge fan of .NET's cache. I can't...

Since it's very beginning, .NET has been a dominate player in the market place. Within a couple years, Microsoft was able to leverage it's unique position and assert .NET as a power house. For many of us it's lead to great personal growth and opened new opportunities. Job positions are plentiful...

If you, or someone you know, has any influence whatsoever on Adobe, please exercise it and let them know their "Developer Center" sucks. I've blogged about this before, but I've come across even worse examples lately I went to the main ASP.NET development center and the very first article...

Not too long ago, I was experimenting with ways to minimize some code duplication in sprocs. Specifically, I wanted to figure out a way to centralize the SELECT X, Y, Z parts of my stored procedures. For example, I had the following three sprocs: GetAllArticles GetArticleById GetArticlesFromTags I wrote...