October 2009 Entries
Technorati Tags: Expression Today I was all excited about ditching my VM running Windows XP that I use to test IE 6 as part of my cross-browser testing for our e-commerce website and to use Expression Super Preview instead. So I fired up Super Preview for the first time. Very cool. I’ll be able to bring up any web site and see multiple views of it in most major browsers and their past and current versions right? Well, it seemed like a huge productivity gain, until I actually tried to USE it that is… ...
Technorati Tags: ASP.NET Just a quick little tip I came across while trying to figure out how to render HTML into a scrollable textbox. Originally I wanted to create a Terms & Conditions scroll box, nothing special here. What was driving me nuts was the encoding. I had created an ASP.NET textbox, set it to multi-line and set the text to it from code-behind. I’m tired of using ASP.NET controls, especially when you can do something like this much easier with plain HTML and CSS and it’s working just fine cross browswer and always will. And...
Technorati Tags: Rants,Standards,Architecture I’ve gotten pretty worked up lately about comments from those developers who frequently hack stuff together and apply code & run atmospheres in their shops because they just don’t know any better and think this is the way to satisfy the business and their development team. What am I talking about? Comments like this: “Oh I’ve read articles before from people like that. A lot of that is just academic and theory, and not reality” “You’re trying to make too perfect of code” “The UI doesn’t need to be pretty” “Just...
Technorati Tags: Management,Standards,Architecture,Rants The good thing is, I don’t have to ramble on as to why this is probably the worst post I’ve ever read relating to development. I think if I did my rambling would be an 800 page book. But here it is, the most naive post I’ve ever read. I suppose I shouldn’t be acknowledging and giving this guy any kind of attention but it’s so bad, I feel an obligation to share a post from a true Salesman which is what he is, not a developer: The Duct Tape Programmer (la la la...
Technorati Tags: Java,Rants I was browsing the net, looking into what Lucene.NET is all about. Interesting enough, I was awe-struck when I came across the official “Page O’Nerds”! In fact though it was the most interesting page in the entire apache site because it actually “drew my attention” and had some real content in it other than plain text. This link brought forth to you from an anti-Java, Oracle, ColdFusion (believe it or not, some places still use it as sad as it is), PHP, Unix, and Apache dude…yes very shallow but true and I’m not afraid to...
Technorati Tags: C# I want to talk about an interesting scenario I had in code recently. We wanted to change up a connection string based on a flag to any Business Layer method calls being made. First here’s some facts: 1) We had a base class called DatabaseBase 2) We had a derived class that inherited the base: SomeProjectDB : DatabaseBase 3) Business Layer method calls would eventually use an instance of SomeProjectDB in part to make the associated Data Layer method calls for a BL method So for example you might have a...
