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ASP.NET Sucks and It DOES Matter

This is partially in response to this somewhat infamous article by Jeff Atwood: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001119.html In this Jeff mentions that although PHP as a language and platform sucks, it doesn’t matter. Its low barrier to entry has allowed PHP to become the defacto standard for...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-03-2008
sql server management studio has “backup sets” and “destinations on disk” disabled

I ran into this little gotcha a little while ago, so I thought I’d share it and break my blog silence. One of our clients hosts their own sql server (express) and website, and I kept noticing that there was no way to do a backup. When I went into sql management studio and tried to add a backup destination...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-20-2008
FWDNUG Meeting Notes and Slides

Thanks to Stephen and the other members at the Fort Worth .NET User Group for having me speak. I enjoyed it and hopefully my audience did too. I'm sorry this has taken a while to post, but as promised I have all the slides and a list of resources like Fowler's POEA book in a big zip file. Also...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-25-2008
I'm speaking at the Fort Worth .NET user group

On March 18th I'll be speaking at the Fort Worth .NET user group at Justin Brands. The topic will be a favorite of mine: O/R Mapping Patterns and Tools. Come by say hello or throw tomatoes. Info is below: http://fwdnug.com/blogs/meetings/archive/2008/03/11/march-2008-meeting.aspx

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-12-2008
Warn3d By CrueLSaw

Today I got a very interesting request from my boss. There was one of our sites that had suddenly been defaced with the following text: "Warn3d By CrueLSaw" After some research by one of our Senior Developers (Thanks Pete) he found that this CrueLSaw guy was very busy hacking into and defacing...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-10-2008
Should your production build be different than your development build?

Kyle Bailey invited some criticism in his article, so I'm going to deliver it. You can read the original article HERE , but to sum up: "The basic idea Donald described was thus: Just because you build your application one way in Visual Studio during development, doesn't mean you need to...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-11-2008
Lessons Learned From the WAM Charity Event

I just got back from the WAM charity event that i mentioned in an earlier post. I want to again thank everyone on my team for all their hard work. It was also amazing to see what the other teams had built in such a short timeframe, sometimes with only one or two developers. I learned a lot about development...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-21-2008
A little reflection

This is just a quick post. The other day, I needed to take all fields from a business object called QuoteLead which represents a Sales Lead for an insurance quote, and send it to to another system in a name/value format to post via HTTP. This is because we're integrating with a 3rd party service...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-09-2008

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