A .NET Architecture, Design & Development Journal

Significant Changes (And Progress) on Generic Extension Methods

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:26:51 GMT

I've taken a lot of time to work with my initial release of the library and have made several changes, deletions and additions. The biggest problem solved was that there were several redundant IsEmpty and IsNotEmpty methods for various types of...

Get Mad: Very, Very Mad – At the Politicians

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:43:14 GMT

Raise your hand if you or someone you know is being negatively affected by the current economic conditions. Now, raise your hand if you are less than happy that AIG just distributed $165M in bonuses. Tax AIG Executive Bonuses, Dodd Says - Pr...

Introducing the Generic Extension Methods Project

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:43:36 GMT

Extension methods provide the means to apply polymorphic behaviors to an object without having to extend that object. This means that you can create a method to test a string for null or empty without having to subclass System.String, which you...

Exponentially Improve Performance to Start ASP.Net 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Debugger

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:09:36 GMT

Memory is getting cheaper and cheaper. There's no two ways about it, and we should utilize the RAM in our systems as efficiently as possible. One way I have found to do this is through the usage of a Ram Disk. Compiling a website and lau...

LINQ Your Typed DataSets

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:24:40 GMT

Anyone who has worked with me for the last eight years or so knows that I absolutely love Typed DataSets. The power and functionality of DataSets, combined with the type safety of business objects all rolled into one nice and neat package has a...

Our Right to Have Children is Under Attack

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:08:56 GMT

OFF TOPIC ALERT! The hew and cry over the octuplets born to Nadia Sulaiman has reached hysterical proportions, and now has spilled over to the pregnancy of a woman who simply wants to have more children to love with her husband. FOXNew...

Proof that the Free Software Movement Knows It Cannot Compete: Boycott Novell » 66 Pages of Microsoft Evilness

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:53:04 GMT

The Free Software Movement is notoriously socialist (some would say Communist), and to me the real reason is that they want to change the way things are done because they don�t know how to compete in the world of Capitalism and free speech. I l...

The Week of Tech – 2009-02-06

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:38:19 GMT

Introduction Welcome Everyone Hello, and welcome to the first edition of the The Week of Tech with Payton Byrd. I�m Payton and I�m going to give you the highlights, and lowlights, of the week in technology, complete with my slightly biased opinions...

Windows 7 on June 30, 2009 – It’s still on, baby!

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:06:03 GMT

I�ve written twice before about the fact that everything in the world points to Microsoft releasing Windows 7 on June 30, 2009. Now, there�s lots of new evidence to support it. Ed Bott over at ZDNet has blogged that Windows 7 will ship in July...

HOW TO Properly add Client Script in ASP.Net Ajax

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:36:23 GMT

A common issue in developing a web application is the need to inject JavaScript into the output of the page. For years developers used Response.Write to do so in classic ASP, and this habit continued with ASP.Net as it continued to work. ...

More (Bad) Uber-Geek Humor

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:11:35 GMT

Thank you, I'm here all week. Don't forget to tip your waiter.

Things That Make You Go DUH! - CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:22:32 GMT

Hmm, lots of stuff here that goes along with my How Not to Create Crappy Systems post. SANS Institute - CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors Now, let�s be honest, we�ve all seen some of the things on this list, and it�s infuriating, fr...

JavaScript Keyboard Events Matrix for Function Keys F1 through F12

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:24:31 GMT

Using the function keys in a web application is a dicey situation. Several of the keys have specific uses in the browser and these keys should be avoided at all costs. Additionally, the keys all have a semantic meaning in the UI standards...

AMD Phenom II X4 Benchmarked – The Paper Dragon

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:24:13 GMT

To say that the original AMD Phenom processor was less than well-met by the market is an understatement. It was one of the most disappointing CPU launches since the original Pentium 60/66. Has AMD done better with the Phenom II? Tom...

A Christmas Gift to Coalesce

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:46:29 GMT

If you�ve ever written this method raise your hand: public T Coalesce<T>(T in, T out) { return (in != null ? in : out); } Of course, there are many permutations of such code, but the gist is a coalescence to fi...