Well, at least the ones I've tried. Let's take a quick jump back down memory lane... something that Frans Bouma said to me way back here ( http://codebetter.com/blogs/jay.kimble/archive/2005/06/01/63937.aspx#63954 ) struck a chord. I don't know ORMs that well, and despite my misgivings over Dynamic SQL...

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...

I made an interesting discovery at work today. I finally had to work on a piece of code that I have always found ways to hand off to someone else. It was written by a former colleague who absolutely loved JavaScript and Remote Scripting (aka AJAX... don't argue with me they are the same thing more or...

I've been thinking about a number of things lately as I look at a number of technologies. I think there's a growing programmer's revolt against the DBAs. Maybe I'm crazy, but it sure seems like that is what is happening (and no I'm not talking about Frans' comment or my response in another blog entry...

I had a conversation with a friend this morning that somewhat scared me. This friend has been the biggest VB.Net proponent I have ever met. His stance is what has inspired to stand up to " stupid language bigotry " (BTW, this ended in a truce). I have hated how the C# crowd (and other language proponents...