As I just posted, I was inspired by Channel 9‘s video interviews so decided to get a digital camcorder to film interviews with our vendors about their products for posting on Xtras.Net. However, when I get the opportunity I’ll interview anyone related to the .NET development and post those interviews on my blog. Case in point, …
Features I REALLY want in TSQL, Part #1
I believe SQL was invented back in the 70’s back by E.F.Codd (don’t shoot me if I’m wrong; I’m not a historian.) Given the collective wisdom about programming back then, SQL is an amazing language. I probably use TSQL more often than any other because of ad-hoc queries into my company’s SQL Server database. However …
My, My, My!
(I first wrote most of this about 3 weeks ago, but never got a chance to finish and post it. I’ll be posting something else about “My” is a few days, so I wanted to post this first.) When I first heard about “My” Classes (list of classes) planned for Whidbey/Visual Studio 2005, I thought …
Another Patent Gone Bad
Wired reports Forgent Sues Over JPEG Patent. According to the article, Forgent acquired a 17-year-old patent when it purchased Compression Labs in 1997 that Forgent believes can be applied to JPEG. Also according to the article, Forgent has generated about $90 million in fees on the patent from 30 licensees in Europe, Asia and the …
Why runat=”server” for ASP.NET? Part 2
In response to my post Why runat="server" for ASP.NET?, Talbott Crowell tried of Microsoft National Services tried to comment but got an error from dasBlog. I’ve decided to post his emailed comments here: I understand your point, but the importance of [runat="server"] is more for consistancy and extensibility. If the developer has to mark some …
A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected…
In response to my post Why runat="server" for ASP.NET?, Talbott Crowell of Microsoft National Services tried to post the following comment: I understand your point, but the importance of [runat="server"] is more for consistancy and extensibility. If the developer has to mark some tags some ways (ie an [<asp:] prefix) and in other cases using …
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About the “Most Useful Add-in/Macro for Visual Studio .Net” Contest
Roy Osherove at ISerializable is holding a contest for the "Most Useful Add-in/Macro for Visual Studio .Net" Contest." Submissions accepted through May 31st, and there are tons of cool prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place plus a Bonus finisher. One of the best(!) prizes is an XDN Professional Membership from Xtras.Net. :-) Be sure …
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What major advantages does C# have over Java?
Matt Davey just posted about a presentation to management types where they asked the question (among others) “What major advantage does the C# language have over and above the Java language?“ My first thought was “attributes“ which allow developers to tag code with metadata that can be programmed against but I was sure there was …
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Why runat=”server” for ASP.NET?
One of the things I don’t like about ASP.NET is [runat=”server”]. Why can’t we set [runat=”server”] to be the default for certain tags? After all, isn’t every tag that starts with “<asp:” run at the server? Why make me bloat code? Why put something there I might forget to type and then waste my time figuring out …
Developer Bias
Every developer has a set of bias that drives their development. A developer’s bias determines how they write code and what they consider is good vs. bad code. I believe there are few if any "well rounded" developers that provide equal weighting on all areas; that’s why having a team of developers with different bias …