Beating a dead horse: Stored Procedures
I seem to be having the same conversations with the dev teams whenever I switch clients. The topic of this post is one that many people have written about before. I'm just going to put my opinion on my blog so I can refer people to it in the future instead of having to repeat myself every time.
What prompted this post is that since I've moved to Belgium I've had to take a step back from living on the bleeding edge and using open source projects. Most of the work is concentrated in Brussels and ...
Common mistakes in software development (part 2): Mixing up the tiers
In my [previous post](http://flanders.co.nz/2008/09/24/common-mistakes-in-software-development/) I explained some very quick wins to make your code a little bit cleaner. As I've been appointed an [asp.net](http://www.asp.net) project at work at the moment I have the chance to get more ammunition for blogging :).
This time I'd like to talk about properly separating your tiers so that the next person doesn't have to go through the complete application and make changes everywhere just to make a mi...
Common mistakes in software development
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At my current client I've got to do mainly maintenance on existing applications. This gives me the chance to look into codebases that have been created by other people and that don't really reflect how I would write things. That is all good though it gives me a chance to learn new ways of doing things and when I think their way is better I'll surely adopt.
Anyway when I'm browsing these codebases I do find a lot of things that could have been done be...
IronNails : Rails like development for IronRuby with WPF/Silverlight
For my book IronRuby I'm working on chapter 4. That chapter is about doing WPF development with IronRuby. I started out with a straight port of Witty to IronRuby. As I was doing that the cogs started turning and I came up with a way to bring the rails style of development to WPF. I decided to investigate that route a little bit further and now I have a small framework that enables you to write WPF applications with the MVC paradigm. I decided to open that code up as open source and h...
Congratulations to Mindscape
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Posted November 5th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
A couple of friends of mine own the company Mindscape They were interviewed by Ron Jacobs at the latest NZ tech ed in August. And that has now just been put up on channel 9 as part of the ARCast series. The interview is about their product LightSpeed which IMHO is one of the nicest ORM's out there. I've used it in a couple of things now and I am absolutely surprised by the fact that lightspeed is a good name for it because it is really fast. If you haven't taken it for a test drive you should...
I’m getting to write a book !!!!!!!!!
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Posted November 3rd, 2007 at 12:05 am
I just got confirmation from Manning publishers that I get to write a book on IronRuby.
I personally think this is great news :D
I will keep you updated with more progress as I go along.
I just wanted to get this message out....
A little browser with ironruby and wpf
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Posted October 29th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Whilst preparing for my talk on saturday I got to play a little with Iron ruby and wpf. One of my experiments was to create a little browser which i dubbed biffy :) You can download it here: biffy.zip del.icio.us tags: wpf, ironruby, dynamic languages...
Rejoining the pack
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Posted October 22nd, 2007 at 10:24 pm
The last year I've dabbled a lot with linux, ruby etc. Investigating alternative means of developing web applications. I have switched back to vista ultimate x64 now because I spend about 95% of my time developing on windows so it didn't make sense to run linux as a base system. Both ubuntu with Beryl or vista are just as slow/fast on my computer the admin time for my windows system is a lot shorter than the one for my ubuntu system. I'm not taking a hard line against webforms any more, I st...
What is wrong with people?
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Posted May 16th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Did I miss the memo about having to be religious about the tools you use. In my mind anything that falls in the category religion should be banned as it is a cancer on society. Philosophy is good. Budhism is a philosophy to which I would subscribe for example. I am allergic to people that tell me what to think, probably why I never really fell for the "ruby community". I don't need convincing, I'll do that myself, I just want correct information and plenty of it. That being said I stumbled a...
Microsoft is listening after all
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Posted December 5th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Well today has been an interesting day. I signed up for a day of presentations on user experience, which is something that can always improve. Turns out it are a bunch of presentations on Microsoft Expression (I guess in some ways that has to do with user experience )It's not something I personally will be using as it is more designer focussed and I use visual studio for all my development and web design. Over the last couple of months or so I have been sensing that Microsoft isn't what they u...
