A couple of days ago I was spreading the WPF goodness and was talking about how MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) helps promote separation of concerns by removing the need for the code-behind file from the associated XAML file. After my statement someone replied with the following question, “So why even have it there, can you just delete […]
Read MoreThis is a short post. Saving this snippet it for myself for later. If you ever have a html DOM element with a duplicate ID value, how do you detect the issue? It’s sometimes hard to find/debug until you really understand what has happened. Taking inspiration from the solution in the following stackoverflow question. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/482763/jquery-to-check-for-duplicate-ids-in-a-dom […]
Read MoreI just went through an experience working with VHDs that I find amazing, frankly. I am not a big sysinternals type of person, so maybe this is no big deal to many readers, but for me it was a very enlightening process. So, cool that I just had to blog it. The Situation I have […]
Read MoreMy friend and NimblePros founder, Steve Smith, sent a fantastic holiday gift to me. I have it hanging on my wall and you should too! It?s a 2011 calendar of Software Craftsmanship. Very cool! The calendar has monthly themes of: Single Responsibility Principle, Dependency Inversion Principle, Common Closure Principle, Common Reuse Principle, Boy Scout Rule, […]
Read MoreThis is not your usual book review that you would expect on a site like this. First off, the book does not talk about code, software, or software developers even once. But, almost everything in this book is applicable to what we do as software developers, managers, project managers, and leads. The book, Brain Rules […]
Read MoreEvery once in a while I run across a list of url’s that for whatever reason I want to make sure are valid. I have not yet found a good way to do this in PowerShell and finally hit the case where I decided to just write what I needed. You can download the script […]
Read MoreI’m very thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining QFrame starting from February next year. I’ll be working there as a .NET architect/consultant focused on exploring technologies, guiding design and architecture, coaching and spending a lot of time diving into code. In short, I got hired for just being myself ;-). I’m very much looking […]
Read MoreIn a previous post I elaborated on the problem of magic strings in OData service queries, and gave a quick (but lacking in depth) statically typed helper solution. A commenter mynkow left a note stating that my solution would not work with nested objects. I initially replied asking if he could give an example (as […]
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