A little while back a small debate has erupted over the if statement. There is even and anti-if campaign going on. If you read things wrong you would think that the ?if? needed to be banished from all languages. And since I had so much fun with my ?Refactoring a Switch statement? (and the rebuttal), […]
Read MoreChris Brandsma and Richard Cirerol sit down and talk with Jim Wierich. Jim is a Ruby and Java developer, frequent speaker, and the creator or Rake (Ruby Make) that is becoming favored by developers all over. Over the course of the conversation we talk about about Connascence as a Developer Grand Unification Theory, Ruby, Architecture, […]
Read More.net Compact Framework is known for missing several ?features? that regular .net developers take for granted. One if the ready availability of profilers. dotTrace, ANTS Performance Profiler, Team Systems Profiler (check out Visual Studio 2010 version of this?much better). There are other profilers out there, but those are the three I am most familiar with. […]
Read MoreWhy oh why did the HTML overlords call their Combo Box/DropDownList a SELECT? Then call the items in the list OPTIONS? It isn’t like there weren’t a plethora of other names for the widget. Then it could have been consistent anyway. Oh well. It seams that each time I start a new project I have […]
Read MoreWe here at Elegant Code have our own little list group that we participate in. It is a nice place to ask questions to some fairly advanced individuals. Today, David Starr posed the question project structures. He said this could be a religious debate, but I don’t believe anyone took this up as a matter […]
Read MoreI posted on this about a year ago. I am reposting this as a Public Service Announcement (otherwise known as a PSA). Do you have a stored procedure where the amount of data returned can vary wildly depending on what parameters are passed in? Does performance change dramatically depending on how much data is being […]
Read MoreI inherited some code that make heavy use of XmlWriter. Say what you will about XmlWriter, it works, but the code using it can be ugly, hard to read, and hard to figure out where you went wrong. Case in point, there were numerous errors in the code that went unfound by the unit test, […]
Read MoreThis is basically a ?What is Chris up to now?? post. As the title suggests I?m going up to my ears into Asp.Net MVC. I?ve been doing Asp.Net WebForms for about the past 8 years, so this is a good time for a switch. Lucky for me, I?m armed with a good book: Pro Asp.Net […]
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