June 2007 - Posts

Google - not quite the Mecca it's made out to be?
I've blogged a bithereabout the wonders of working at Google. My perspective has always been from an outsider reading some of the various other "Google-Worshipper" blogs and articles out there. I found an interestingarticle here- written by a "Microsoftie" Read More...
Posted 28 June 07 09:30 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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Web Project Conversion - IConvertedPage
As I've mentioned previously, I'm currently in the midst of a project to convert an old web application from .net 1.1 to .net 2.0. This is a moderately sizable application containing 40+ aspx pages. We are not simply converting the project and code-base Read More...
Posted 27 June 07 10:26 by Greg | 1 Comments   
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Javascript Debugging...
....has always been a pain point for me. Nothing ever really seemed to work. I would put javascript alerts (alert('hello!);) in my code to get the value of variables and fields on a page. Now, though, you can simply use a wonderful tool called Venkman, Read More...
Posted 27 June 07 07:29 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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IIF in VB.net vs. ? : in C#
Just a quick thing that annoys me a teeny bit. In C#, if you want to create a short one-line IF...Then...Else statement, you can use the ? : syntax - in practice that's:string description = reader.IsDBNull(_indexDesc) ? null : reader.GetString(_indexDesc).Trim(); Read More...
Posted 22 June 07 09:52 by Greg | 1 Comments   
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.Net Vs. J2EE
Tom Yager had a great post about a benchmarking project that Microsoftinitiated that compared performance of .Net to J2EE. It was a great article and just goes to show that .Net is easy to develop in - AND - extremely performant. In my company, this is Read More...
Posted 21 June 07 01:57 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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ASP.NET Menu Control and <xhtmlConformance mode="Legacy" />
I have been working on a project lately to convert an ASP.net application from .net 1.1 to .net 2.0. As part of the upgrade, we are going to use the new ASP.Net Menu control - complete with the Sql Site Map Provider. Everything went extremely well - but Read More...
Posted 20 June 07 10:25 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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RegEx vs. XML
I recently ran into a situation where I needed a simple method of parsing values from a cookie and placing into a class in my asp.net 2.0 application. Initially, I created the class and used the built in .net Serialization - but the resulting xml was Read More...
Posted 20 June 07 09:07 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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ASP.NET: Model View Presenter Pattern
For a while now, I've been trying to determine a more efficient way of testing my company's applications. We don't have a QA team, so we are forced to repeatedly develop, unit test, system test and regression test our applications. In the past, we had Read More...
Posted 18 June 07 09:26 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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Quick Tip For VSTS Test Project
Just ran into a quick issue that deserved a mention. I've been experimenting with the Visual Studio Team Suite Test Project lately. I have an existing solution separated into its layers (Presentation-BLL-DAL-DB). I recently tried to write a Unit Test Read More...
Posted 18 June 07 08:08 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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Goodbye T-Mobile
I have been a long-time devotee of the Sidekick. I was one of the early adopters of the Sidekick Iback in the day (a few years ago). After the first Sidekick, I moved onto the Sidekick II. It was a logical progression for me, it was smaller and had a Read More...
Posted 10 June 07 11:26 by Greg | 1 Comments   
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