I write this post with a mix of excitement and sadness. The exciting part is that I am helping form a new developer community site at http://www.TheRuntime.com . The sad part is that I will no longer be blogging at Codebetter. When Codebetter was first formed, myself and several other bloggers from DotNetJunkies...

All in all, it's been a pretty fun week so far. My favorite sessions by far were Rocky's architecture session and David Platt's jam packed session on Why Software Sucks . Rocky and David are both very engaging speakers who use humor and make the audience feel comfortable in interacting with...

Nuff Said.

It is undeniable that the blogosphere is becoming a prime time source of networking, information, and advertising. With this in mind, we've been watching the evolution of blogging. Authors like Scott Hanselman and Sahil Malik, business owners like Joel Spolsky and Eric Sink all are using the blogosphere...

Here's a fun one I did for the IAmBrilliant project. There are several places in the system where there is entering and editing of address information. So we wanted to come up with a nice little user control that could be shared across pages. (You can download the source page here since community server...

<Begin Musing> I was reviewing some code the other day from one of my developers who recently made the jump from classic ASP to ASP .NET and I found that the developer was using a lot of the old VB core functions like cint(), dateadd() etc instead of their new .NET Framework counterparts. In my...

Ok, it's been a bit of time since I posted some technical content. I seem to be the only codebetter blogger who has big business aspirations and is launching a real ISV so I've been trying to mix that content into the Codebetter feed for those of you who have similar aspirations. I think it's time to...

http://www.paymon.net/Pages/Show.aspx?page=17 Image compression tool for those of you who want to allow users to upload large images without having to have the user go through the pain of compression. In a test it chunked down a 1.2mb image I uploaded to a mere 50ish kb. Image still looked good when...

There has always been a mini religious war between programmers about code layout/style and when to optimize. My personal take on this has been put more weight on readability and maintainability over highly condensed, optimized code. Here's a few thoughts on this subject: Don't optimize first In almost...

What's the difference? Here's a console application that shows one: Dim myObject As Object = Nothing Dim toStringTest As String Dim convertTest As String Try toStringTest = myObject.ToString() Catch ex As Exception Console.WriteLine("MyObject.ToString Error: " & ex.Message) End Try Try convertTest...