Had mine ordered for months now...but the big day finally approaches - Code Complete (US) is simply the single most essential book for any coder. I read the Drafta few months ago and have to say that...
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This post by Scott Hanselman is just a brilliant starting point for beginners in application architecture (in any language actually). In my experience a good basic structure can solve so many problems...
Monday, 05 July 2004 00:00
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Back from my (admittedly short) break - Dad's birthday which I really wanted to be at home for this year. We're trying to get a bit more structure going at my place of work, well we had some before...
Monday, 05 July 2004 00:00
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I was replying to this forum post I actually couldn't find a good example on how to do this - wierd, it's such a common thing to do. So, the problem is, is there a better method than using the...
Monday, 05 July 2004 00:00
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Oddly I've had a couple of email (even one from a Microserf) asking why I thought I would never become an MVP. Well, the simple answer is - time. Keeping a blog takes relatively little time, I...
Monday, 05 July 2004 00:00
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Roy clarifies his position on the whole Rory thing...(incidentally, Rory, I tried to email you but it bounced back)
My response, well, I posted an ill concieved post yesterday about the whole debacle...
Monday, 05 July 2004 00:00
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Sorry, I had some downtime over the weeken - I was away for the Easter break and so was only able to restart just now. If you've sent me any mail over the last couple of days, chances are I haven't...
Monday, 05 July 2004 00:00
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OK, let me start by saying that I enjoy working in C# / .NET more than I have any other language / framework in my working life. The problem is, that's just not enough.
The simple fact is that I've...
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Really exciting changes by the looks of it - not long now before we can actually use these features (well about a year). Anyway, a usual an excellent article from G. Andrew Duthie (or G. for short).
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When replying to this post in the ASP.NET forums, Dave023 (I wish people would use their real names, we're not posting porn there or anything!) he mentioned using the System.Data.IDataRecord instead...
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