I have a confession to make. You may think it's so 2005, but nonetheless, I'm discovering an addiction that I have. I love generics! I know again it's kind of a late confession. I've loved them before for no longer having to write collection code, but the bigger thing for me has been...

As many of you know I have made some strong statements in the past regarding ORMs (in fact I’ve probably lost readers over it). Recently in my day job , I was given two projects that I decided to use an ORM for (and I used different ones each time). I used the writings of my fellow blogger, David...

I'm sure I've posted this before, but David Hayden's post prompted me to make sure this video resurfaces on the top of the CodeBetter feed (instead of buried in my comments). If you have ever thought, "hey defending the network is not my problem... that's networking or security problem" then you are...

[I'm doing an experiment. I'm writing this post using Writely and FireFox instead of using the CodeBetter Editor and IE6... BTW it didn't work... I guess I need to try something else] Over the last month during the holidays and my own blogging block I have been reading a book on Patterns (Yes, DonXML...

My co-worker, Rob Teixeira, MVP (he makes me put those three characters --"MVP-- in if I'm going to quote him), sent me a nice little tidbit today in email. It's a performance assessment (I won't call it a test) of the Enterprise Services vs. TCP Remoting vs. XML Web Services. The Article is here . The...

[Update... be sure to read the comments where Raymond Lewallen corrects me] Ok, after about a year of hearing people write about the glories of Extreme Programming, I think I get it. More importantly, I think I might want to do it (at least part of it). Let me explain what I think I know and then someone...

I'm sick today, so I spent sometime looking at some OOP patterns (isn't that what you do when you're sick?) I found this website a while back. I had looked at the factory patterns before, and had been trying to think through the when angle of these. Some of these patterns it is suggested that you should...

[Please excuse me as I'm trying to get my blogging form back... With the life juggling I've been doing lately, I've not been able to really devote myself to blogging the way I would like to] I had a friend of mine remind me about Eric's Domain Manager Pattern (which is found here ). I had yet to read...

[I retitled this post. Admittedly the original idea was a little hairbrained... It was too early in the morning, I was contemplating a problem that is mentioned in the comments, and quite frankly I hadn't fully thought through everything... I will leave the rest of the post alone (and the comments)....

[I've begun to do a few more C# projects and so I bought a couple books on the subject. I'm going to start writing down a few observations along the way]. About a year ago I had someone tell me that the optional keyword in VB (used to define optional parameters) is something that really shouldn't be...