I’ve come across a small number of AJAX animation progress generators and a few pages with a fixed listing of generators, but Ajaxload is by far the best one I’ve found so far: Very well designed (and useful) little utility.
On a recent late spring trip, my wife and I visited Hyannis, Massachusetts. During some free time, we had a chance to walk down to the beach and take a stroll. We were greeted at the beach by a thick mist and...
With the release of .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft will also release selected bits of the .NET Framework source code! With comments intact no less! To me, this is good news; very good news I mean, there are a...
This time, coming from a Yahoo! exec (with a spine), Ian Rodgers. If the licensing labels offer their content to Yahoo! put more barriers in front of the users, I’m not interested. I won’t let Yahoo! invest any more money...
The best devtool ever? Or the best devtool ever? You decide; I present the fantabulous Terminals. Once you’ve lived with it, you can’t live without it. It addresses several shortcomings with the default RDP/Terminal Services client in Windows, namely: Lack of...
During a recent code review, I noticed that a colleague was sending me service entities from his WCF service with flags for the data type. This itself wasn’t so bothersome to me, but what did bother me was that the...
I’ve been in a somewhat heated debate with my once CEO and now VP regarding the effectiveness (or rather, the ineffectiveness) of DRM and how the media companies are really just screwing themselves (whilst also screwing customers) by not adapting...
When developing Windows services applications, one of the most painful aspects is testing. Sure, you can test individual component libraries separately with unit tests, but what about deploying and testing the system in an actual runtime environment? What if your components...
Getting lots of work done. Today, day 6, we planned to go out to the Red Butte Cafe to get some buffalo burgers. Brad even called ahead to ask, before we embarked on a 30 minute journey, whether they still...
I’ve always been on the side of stored procedures in the classic debate over the merits of dynamic SQL. In reality, I can only think of one good scenario where dynamic SQL at the application layer should be used: programmatic batch...