Monthly Archive: April 2010

Why SPMetal Falls Short

Why SPMetal Falls Short

First, SPMetal is good.  It’s very good.  Much better than life without it.  It encourages more object-oriented programming (instead of XML string oriented programming – blech!) That said, SPMetal falls short of awesome by just a hair. Ideally, one would...

Philly .NET Code Camp and Windows Azure

Philly .NET Code Camp and Windows Azure

I spent half a day at the Philly .NET Code Camp and ended up attending only two sessions (weather was too nice outside to be sitting inside on a Saturday :-D).  By chance, I saw Alvin Ashcraft’s name on the...

Obama Increases Funding for Prompt Global Strike

Obama Increases Funding for Prompt Global Strike

Bear with me here for some politics 😉 Caught an interesting article last night regarding increased investment in a new weapons program to complement the decrease in the nuclear arsenal. Prompt Global Strike (wiki) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36253190/ns/us_news-washington_post/ The administration has asked Congress...

jsTree and Nested XML Data Stores

jsTree and Nested XML Data Stores

I happened upon jsTree a few months back while searching for a solid jQuery based tree. Without a doubt, it is one of the most well implemented and functional Javascript trees I’ve used with perhaps the most powerful feature being...

SharpZipLib and ASP.NET

SharpZipLib and ASP.NET

I recently had to write a search-driven component to extract and export documents from a SharePoint repository. It presented a challenge since many examples on the web start from the premise of a file system and not binary streams. I...