Blake Watson talks about RemObject’s Chrome, a Pascal that’s not Delphi, on DevSource. There he talks about “class contracts“, a concept I’ve liked since I first read Bertrand Meyer‘s Object-Oriented Software Contruction, 1st edition back in the late 80’s back, and a feature I’d love to see in VB.NET. Whaddayasay Mr. Vick?
AJAX: It Shouldn’t Just Be All About the Developer!
After seeing Eric Pascarello’s thread at ASP.NET forums entitled “AJAX – Is it Hype? Is it for you?” I decided to post a thread at ASP.NET forums with a reference to my post from July entitled “AJAX: A Panacea, or a Pending Train Wreck?” UkBtlog responded so I’m blogging my reply below: UkBtlog states:I think …
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Visual C++ and LINQ – is it Needed?
Esther Schindler who is the editor of the email newsletter DevSource Update recently wrote about Visual C++ and Microsoft’s LINQ Project that adds the ability to use SQL code directly in VB and C# programs (emphasis mine): Ever since the PDC, developers and the press have been talking about the LINQ technology that Microsoft showed off. …
Is Using JavaScript to Emulate Clicking an HREF a Bad Technique?
Arshad Tanveer just commented on my post Well Designed URLs are Beautiful! Arshad felt I was being “a tad too harsh on links triggering JavaScript.” Well he was right; I was being harsh. But I was being harsh on purpose! My reason for being harsh on using JavaScript instead of basic HTML hypertext was to …
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AJAX: A Panacea, or a Pending Train Wreck?
As a former MapQuest user, I find Google Map’s interactive interface built with AJAX (a combination of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) really cool and lots of fun to use. And Google’s GMail, also built with AJAX, has a nice snappy UI that’s much better than Hotmail. And the more websites that adopt AJAX techniques the …
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Just Say NO to Extending the “My” Classes in VB 2005, Redux
Last month I wrote a really long blog about the “My” Classes in VB 2005 with two hypothetical scenarios regarding the future of .NET and development because of the introduction of the “My” classes. I had a lot of fun writing it, but afterward realized it was far too long to get across my key …
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Extending the “My” Classes in VB 2005 … Just Say NO!
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 …
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VARBusiness’ Love Letter to Microsoft’s .NET
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, …
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Anyone know of a T-SQL Code Formatter?
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 …
My blog’s been quiet, but dotNetInfluencers.org has not been…
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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