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Digging (into) the Community Server Source...

I've been playing around a bit with the source code of Community Server . I hinted last week that I really like the way the application was built... Well, today was the second time that I've gone digging in the source code to try to do something, and it was simple to do. I added the comment count to...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2005 3:37 PM by Brendan Tompkins
Off-Topic : MS Walk

Next month I'm walking with my father and sister in the MS walk here at the beach. My mom has MS, and we're Team Tompkins this year. If you'd like, you could help a great cause and sponsor me. I'm trying to raise $250... Hey it's easy as pie. Just click here. :) Thanks! Brendan

Published Tue, Mar 29 2005 5:28 PM by Brendan Tompkins
Applying Behavior Analysis Theory to the Software Industry

Citing Bob Reselman’s “Coding Slave” Darrell gives his take on how to fix the software development industry In addition to paying great programmers more, we need to pay crappy, or maybe "less sophisticated", programmers much less. On one hand, he’s absolutely right : great programmers should be rewarded...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2005 1:15 PM by Brendan Tompkins
I'm Rapidly Becoming One of Those Open Source Hippies

This is a topic I think I'm going to be writing a lot more about in the near future. With every small side project I do, I'm more and more convinced that open source is a good thing, no an essential thing, and I find myself turning into one of those open source hippies. Now, I'd never recommend open...

Published Mon, Mar 28 2005 7:28 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Resharper Dissed by asp.netPro Readers Choice Awards

Was Resharper dissed By asp.netPRO Readers Choice Awards ? Each year, asp.netPRO recognizes outstanding products and vendors in the ASP.NET add-on market. Please take a moment to select your favorite ASP.NET tools. This is your chance to voice your opinions regarding the tools and products you use in...

Published Mon, Mar 28 2005 7:18 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Welcome John Papa

I'd like to welcome our newest CodeBetter.Com blogger, John Papa. John Papa .NET architect and a baseball fanatic who spends most of his summer nights rooting for the Yankees with his two little girls, wife, and faithful dog, Kadi. He has authored several books on ADO, XML, and SQL Server and can often...

Published Fri, Mar 25 2005 5:12 PM by Brendan Tompkins
Is Microsoft TechEd 2005 Too Expensive?

If you go to the Microsoft Tech·Ed 2005 site, you’ll find that if you “Register by April 15, 2005, and get the Tech·Ed 2005 early registration rate of just $1,695. That’s 15% off the regular rate of $1,995.” From this article, TechEd: Ballmer pushes greater platform integration there were 11,000 attendees...

Published Fri, Mar 25 2005 8:45 AM by Brendan Tompkins
An AggregateCompactBlogList Control for CommunityServer

Earlier this week, Dave Burke left a comment to my We've Been Community Serverized! post. I'm thinking it would be nice to have a list of CodeBetter.com bloggers on your aggregated page when time permits. Have all of you .NET studs listed on one page. This, unfortunately, is not an out of the box control...

Published Fri, Mar 25 2005 7:07 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Low Hanging Fruit : an Open Source Software Project Idea

I have a friend who runs a coffee shop here in Norfolk, and he's looking for a simple cyber cafe software for the public pc that he has in the shop. All it would need is a configurable countdown timer, a configurable splash screen, and restrict the user to IE or FF. What I'd like to see is a source-code...

Published Wed, Mar 23 2005 11:58 AM by Brendan Tompkins
We've Been Community Serverized!

We’re now running CommunuityServer . Thanks to Scott Watermasysk for the great product, and Kevin Harder for his awesome .Text to Community Server Conversion Utility . Also, thanks to Geoff who did all the research, and figured out much of the migration stuff. Once we can wrap our heads around this great...

Published Tue, Mar 22 2005 12:00 PM by Brendan Tompkins
Sort/Filter Your Business Entity Collections with a NEW CollectionView

You’ve probably heard a lot of talk about why you should use Business Entities rather than DataSets. There are good arguments for and against using Typed DataSets as Business Entities . And even very recently, there’s some people changing their minds on the issue. I’m generally for...

Published Fri, Mar 18 2005 4:11 AM by Brendan Tompkins
New Hardware for CodeBetter, and I didn't Code Better

Because Codebetter.Com’s traffic has been growing at a fairly fast rate, I’ve been in touch with our hosting provider about ways that our hardware can keep up with our level of traffic. They recently suggested that we be moved to a better hardware platform, which they graciously agreed to do for us....

Published Thu, Mar 17 2005 1:18 PM by Brendan Tompkins
A Strongly-Typed Cache State Object

Here’s the second installment of my three posts on Strongly-Typed ASP.NET State wrappers, see yesterday’s post, A Strongly-Typed Cookie State Object to get started. This version stores state in the HttpCurrent.Cache object, which has performance benefits over the Application object . Okay...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2005 10:15 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Mark Russinovich From Sysinternals is Blogging

Visit Mark's Brand Spanking New Blog Here. This one was just too important not to post on CodeBetter’s main feed. And if you don’t know about Sysinternals yet… My God! Where have you been? -Brendan

Published Tue, Mar 15 2005 11:42 AM by Brendan Tompkins
A Strongly-Typed Cookie State Object

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about A Better ASP.NET State Pattern , which essentially demonstrates a strongly-typed wrapper base class for storing ASP.NET state. In this post, I showed one implementation of this pattern, which used Session to store the state. I hinted that it would be easy to use...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2005 11:03 AM by Brendan Tompkins

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Digging (into) the Community Server Source...

Off-Topic : MS Walk

Applying Behavior Analysis Theory to the Software Industry

I'm Rapidly Becoming One of Those Open Source Hippies

Resharper Dissed by asp.netPro Readers Choice Awards

Welcome John Papa

Is Microsoft TechEd 2005 Too Expensive?

An AggregateCompactBlogList Control for CommunityServer

Low Hanging Fruit : an Open Source Software Project Idea

We've Been Community Serverized!

Sort/Filter Your Business Entity Collections with a NEW CollectionView

New Hardware for CodeBetter, and I didn't Code Better

A Strongly-Typed Cache State Object

Mark Russinovich From Sysinternals is Blogging

A Strongly-Typed Cookie State Object