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  • Following Up on Brendan's Crystal Post

    Brendan has an interesting post about Crystal "from an insiders perspective." Crystal Reports is reporting software that's marketed well to business decision-makers; Crystal is a household name when it comes to reports! Most developers, however, work to avoid Crystal Reports like the plague. Crystal...

  • Option Strict On Salvation

    Yeah, I should have put this in my earlier post but I didn't have time. Maybe I'm crazy, but the whole Option Strict stuff with the TimeTracker starter kit is something I lose sleep over. The solution is easy: just add a few ToString() and DateTime.Parse() functions where necessary . . . and then you...

  • NHibernate

    Anyone having fun with NHibernate ? This article from TheSeverSide gives a nice NHibernate overview , but I'm curious about how people are finding the config file management and the tool in general after a bit of real world use. I've used a home grown version that did the same thing; it used a combination...

  • No Option Strict For You

    I'm looking at sample apps for some newer .Net web developers to learn from . . . I figured the ASP.Net starter kits would be a good place to start. One of the things we wanted to include was the importance of Option Strict On vs Option Strict Off and wouldn't you know it: the TimeTracker Starter Kit...

  • Making a Copy of ASP.Net Application -- Best Practices?

    Somewhere between this article on the .webinfo file and this post about the .csproj file (that incorrectly presumes it's a Visual SourceSafe problem -- I'm no big fan of VSS but it's not the issue in this case) I successfully made a local copy of a web app we've been working on. Copy the directory ....

  • Schiavo and VB6 expire on the same day

    Today, March 31st 2005, marks the final day of free support for VB 6 by Microsoft . It's caused quite a stir in some circles, most notably the petition for Microsoft to re-align "it's long-term strategies with those of its customers." Signatories would rather have Microsoft invest money in keeping a...

  • 3 Lessons from TechEd (and Secret TechEd)

    I agree with Brendan that TechEd is too pricey for my blood . Thanks to INETA , I got to go last year and I had a great time , but it wasn't my dime. Let me share some insight and demistify the TechEd experience. Lesson 1: There are lots of salespeople at TechEd and, apparently, lots of people keen to...

  • Landscape printing your XSL transformed XML

    A friend of mine was trying to force a web browser to print in landscape for a specific XSL transformed XML page. I mulled this over while on my lunch break and put together this little proof-of-concept when I got back; while it doesn't do ANYTHING to the printer, it renders the page at a different 90...

  • If you tolerate something, you insist upon it

    Bob "Not Just The Coding Slave Guy" Reselman blogs about his interview with Microsoft and sneaks a real gem of a quote in near the end: If you tolerate something, you insist upon it (by the way, Reselman cites Jim McCarthy as being the source for this remark). This really got me thinking. So often in...

  • Powerful Web Charting with NPlot

    I previously considered the free web charting component from Carlos Aguilar to be my main web chart tool . . . but I recently strayed and found a new web chart component. NPlot has become my new main web charting squeeze because it gives me more control over the chart surface area, plotting behaviour...

  • Blog Quandary

    Here's the scenario: The blog helps secure a contract with a customer; the blog's tech content helped to sell the customer. This is wonderful! The contract with the customer has aggressive timeframes that involve overtime etc. Project can't be done soon enough. This isn't wonderful, but fairly typical...

  • Are you an Enterprise Manager Addict?

    I sure am. It's so much easier than remembering all the SQL syntax for editing tables, setting up indexes, etc. I learned this -for about the 100th time in my career- over the last week when we started to get the invalid cursor state errors identified in this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com...

  • CodingWorse (at least slightly) with MsgBox

    My previous post pointed out the shortcomings of using Try-Catch blocks to handle situations that are not truly exceptional . In the same vein I offer this opinion on the VB.Net MsgBox() function -- note I say opinion because this time I don't have the astounding perf numbers to back me up. Here goes...

  • CodingWorse with a try{}catch{} solution?

    I used to teach in a technology program at ODU (until the university sold the program . . . but that's another story); I still get questions emailed from students about the “right” way to program things etc. The latest question was about the lack of an “IsNumeric” function in...

  • the Bob's blog

    Author of Coding Slave , Bob Reselman (aka “the Bob“), is joining the blog community with his Coding Slave blog: http://codingslave.blogspot.com/ . It's “the Bob Blog.” Say it 10 times fast . . . It's part socratic introspection, part social commentary, with a dose of technology...
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