January 2008 - Posts

Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:57 PM

The Oncoming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC with Some LINQ Tossed In - Part 2

In the first part of this series I went over how to create a basic skeleton of controllers and models so that we could create a mock test and get it green lighted along with some other tests for getting the basic navigation methods tested and green lighted. 
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:02 AM

Don't Forget Ignite 2!!!!

Remember, it's coming up!
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:09 PM

Here Comes the Silverlight

Ah, interesting and positive coverage on Silverlight.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:27 PM

The Perfect Development Environment

A friend of mine recently asked, what would be the ideal dream job/work scenario.  I started thinking about it and created this list (Which I'll be pointing him to).  I thought it would be an entertaining post, so here are the things I came
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:33 PM

TDD == Awesomeness (Now Backed with Scientific Evidence)

I've been working toward a more and more proactive testing, or test driven development, approach to my work.  With some of my recent BI/OLAP work it has been a bit more difficult, as code isn't always what needs to be written, sometimes it is just
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:59 AM

Data Connection Dozen

Alright, so maybe it isn't a dozen, but it sure seems like that a lot of the time.  I was just sitting and going through some old ADO.NET style connection and command creation programmatically, then turned around on another project and started tossing
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:04 AM

Common Sense Cardinality

I've been hearing a lot of discussion about cardinality this and cardinality that. With the topic becoming such a common point of discussion. I decided I would write up something. First some definitions so that we all have a clear cut idea of what cardinality
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:53 PM

A Quick Link to Mythical Agile Shortcuts

I often get into debates when a group or department attempts to implement Agile, then does a half ass job, then complains about how Agile failed.  One of the issues is exactly what Ross Pettit wrote about in his Agile Journal Article, Mythical Agile
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:57 PM

Creating and Building Indexes

Just a few Index 101 type points of advice. When creating an index on an existing table, that has populated data, keep in mind that it could take a long time.  If it takes too long and is initiated via the SQL Management Studio the result is very
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:33 AM

Building a Specific .NET Framework Version :: Tip o' The Day

I was working through changing a web project from building to .NET 3.5 to just .NET 3.0.  It was taking a little effort as I removed the .NET 3.5 features.  During that time though I had a problem with System.Web and I realized a cool feature
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Monday, January 14, 2008 2:04 PM

Visual Studio 2008 Virtual Host Rabbit Multiplier

I took a ride on the MAX today, just to do some thinking and get away from downtown for a little while.  On the way back from the west side I'm sitting and just typing away at some code.  I'm not hitting F5 to run or anything, just merely typing
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Monday, January 14, 2008 9:00 AM

Good Coder/Engineer/Programmer

A great list was put up at inter-sections.net on how to recognise a good programmer.  Check it out, it is definitely a good read. One of the comments (by Ashley Moran) struck me as very true also, "Also, something that has stuck with me long after
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Friday, January 11, 2008 3:24 PM

Human Task Switching is Horrible for ROI

Some people get it, some companies do, some other don't, and it really goes to show on the company's bottom line.  One can literally make major decisions about a company based upon what they expect from their employees in the way of task switching. 
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Friday, January 11, 2008 1:20 PM

SharePoint?

Over the last several years I've noticed SharePoint actually getting its act together.  The URIs have gotten a little better and the interface has changed ever so slightly for the better.  There are however still gaping issues with certain parts
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 5:56 PM

Unit Tests Don't Work on Cubes

I've been building web sites for a while now.  I've been writing code, object oriented style for the better part of a decade.  Unit testing I've been doing for all of about 1-2 years to various degrees.  Nothing super advanced yet, and
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Monday, January 07, 2008 12:50 PM

It's on Fire

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Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:51 PM

Tech Second

If you read my transit blog you probably know, if not, here goes.  A break in frequency is to be had for me over the next few weeks.  I've got so much to do and some upgrading to do on the site that I'm taking a slight break from the daily regular
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Saturday, January 05, 2008 9:04 PM

Dear Subscribers

Hey all you subscribers to my fancy spancy tech blog, do me a huge favor and subscribe to my feedburner link.  I finally decided to break down and get a feedburner connector. http://feeds.feedburner.com/LooselyCoupledHumanCodeFactory
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 6:07 PM

I've Returned, In My Mind, Back to Work

One of the notable things I heard at work today which I thought was just hilarious, is that Microsoft still spends significant time and effort publishing marketing crap with FLASH!!! I'm all ready to jump on the Silverlight band wagon, hell, I already
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