This is just a quick post to point out an excellent one by my friend (and former co-worker) DevPrime. He writes about a technique for Using SQL Server Files for Unit Testing in VS2005 TS . Not to blow the article too much, but his idea is to create SQL Server Compact Edition files with your tests. I...

This post is a quick warning to my fellow programmers. I have 2 machine’s that I primarily use for development: An Avaratec C3500 TabletPC (which has an Athlon 2200+ XP-M CPU), and a custom built (by me) desktop (which has an Athlon 64x2 processor). I’m not a dedicated AMD fan… in...

So this week had a painful technology ending… I’m preparing a site for a beta launch. My check list for Friday had an item on the list.: Test Ajax on the Mac (using Safari). We had been testing the Mac all through our dev cycle, but somehow I managed to not test the couple of places I’m using jaajax...

[small update... I added the links to Nemerle and Boo]. No, I'm not dreaming of Halloween. I have been fooling with SharpDevelop and discovered that there are bindings for Nemerle and Boo . Since I hadn't played with either (but have heard about both via Miguel de Icaza's Blog -- the lead on Mono). Languages...

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...

The last few days I have noticed an influx of the term AJAX around the net. After a little bit of investigation I realized that it is nothing more than a technology that I invented (or maybe Microsoft did...) I know that may seem hard to believe. But let me explain. I have had to support and ASP 3.0...