Its somewhat funny to me how the usual ‘knock’ against Open Source Software is the poor quality of the documentation that often accompanies it. “Why can’t we have professional quality, comprehensive documentation for these OSS projects just like the really solid, professional quality documentation that comes from — oh, I don’t know — Microsoft for [...]
The next ALT.NET NYC user group meeting is Wednesday October 22, 2008 and the discussion topic will be Agile Project Management. Our group is off to a great start with a tremendous turn-out for the first meeting in late-September at Microsoft’s offices in Midtown Manhattan where we had a solid 30-40 attendees.
I want to give [...]
In my career I have seen many a developer embark on the journey that eventually leads them to what I would term ‘Object-Relational Mapping as it was originally intended‘. After watching this process over and over again, I have reached the conclusion that the path is always the same. Different people on the journey may [...]
If you haven’t already heard, Microsoft is actually doing the previously-unthinkable and bundling the truly incredible JQuery library into future versions of Visual Studio (incl. Express), the ASP.NET MVC beta/CTP releases, and presumably anything else web-y that they release in the future. They will be providing integrated support for intellisense with JQuery methods in the [...]
I just wanted to ensure visitors to this blog that I am not dead and the next installment of the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series is still coming. Other conflicting committments have forced me to delay it one more week; its new ETA is now the end of next week rather than this week as previously [...]
The prolific writer Arthur C. Clark once (famously) wrote:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
As software developers, we are presented just about daily with such ’sufficiently advanced’ technology — the world of what one could know about software engineering techniques, languages, frameworks, databases, compilers, etc., etc., etc. is just so vast now that no [...]
I have posted the next installment in the series which actually diverges slightly from the previously-planned curriculum. The plan for this session was to cover INSERTs, UPDATEs, and DELETEs but looking back at the topics for Session 02 I realized that there were some aspects of querying that I had wanted to cover but overlooked [...]
