Jack of all trades; Master of one.
If he were a presidential candidate, they’d call him a "flip-flopper." But don’t let that bother you. I tend to respect people who change their opinions when times change and/or when they learn new things. And so it is with Dan Appleman, owner of Desaware, partner in APress, and author of a slew of excellent books …
Continue reading “Things that make you go “Hmmm”, or “Why Dan does blog after all””
Readers of my prior posts about the "My" Classes planned for VB 2005 know that I am pretty enamored with them: here, here, and here. I think the "My" classes have the potential to become one of the most significant productivity features of VB 2005 and beyond, and could result in a huge reduction in …
Continue reading “Extending the “My” Classes in VB 2005 … Just Say NO!”
There’s a very interesting review of .NET licensing systems at VB.NET Forums: a full review of Desaware Licensing System and a partial review of Xheo Licensing. I can’t say that I haven’t had similar experiences in the past. If you are considering the purchase of a licensing system for .NET, you definitely owe it to …
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As far as I’m concerned, .NET Rocks! (and I’m not talking about Carl Franklin’s radio show.) I’ve programmed on many different platforms and in many different languages and studied many more than that, and as far as I see .NET blows everything else out of the water. Though I’ve never actually used Java or J2EE, …
Continue reading “VARBusiness’ Love Letter to Microsoft’s .NET”
I know I’m the tool man (with Xtras.Net) but I can’t seem to find a T-SQL code formatter and wondered if anyone else knows about one? I’m got someone inhouse who writes his SELECT, INSERT, and UPDATE statements in stored procs as if his monitor were infinitely wide, and only ever uses the tab or enter …
Though my blog has been quiet for several days, it doesn’t mean I haven’t been working on online projects. Since I launched it over a week ago, http://www.dotnetinfluencers.org/ has taken a lot of my time, but it is coming along better than I had hoped for! If you not familiar with what I’m doing over …
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So I just blogged about how I find XSLT somewhat frustrating. Admittedly some of the frustration is based on my relative lack of experience with XSLT. One area ripe with potential frustration is the concept of the node-set data type for which learning has caused me a bit of hair loss recently! A typical scenario …
Continue reading “Getting Past the XSLT Error: “Expression must evaluate to a node-set.””
I’ve been trying to learn XSLT for a few projects, and I find it both a fascinating and extremely frustrating language! I read about the designers goals (from Michael Kay’s XSLT: Programmer’s Reference) and just shake my head, i.e. : "XSL stylesheets should be human-legible and reasonably clear" and in the next sentence "Terseness in …
On Monday July 5th, 2004 I blogged about a project on which I was working. That project was a Wiki based on FlexWiki located at www.dotNetInfluencers.org, and it is now live and public on the Internet. Click Purpose and Goals to read what I’m attempting to accomplish with dotNetInfluencers.org. If you are cynical and believe …
Coordinating the Congregation of Co-Equal Cognoscenti for Consorting and Consumption of Comestibles; otherwise known as: www.geekdinner.com :-)