While working on the MVC implementation for my FitTrack application I googled “cottage cheese” to cross reference a menu item entry. This is what I got. That search was essentially the death of my FitTrack application. Notice the variants of cottage cheese you get if you select the drop …
Let me start by stating, emphatically, I love CSLA.NET! I first became aware of this excellent framework in 2008 when my boss dropped Rocky’s book Expert C# 2008 Business Objects on my desk. In very short order I recognized the enormous benefits CSLA could provide to developers like myself who …
My first experience with a “browser” was Mosaic around 1994 in the Washington State University computer labs. I viewed it as a novel and somewhat intriguing toy but I wasn’t overly impressed. Within a year I was sitting in a physics lab on the WSU campus browsing early web sites …
I’ve fought it. I’ve kicked and screamed. I’ve ranted and raved. But all to no avail. It’s over. Silverlight is dead. More’s the pity. If only it could have gained more traction. If only Apple, Google and the other unknown forces would have adopted change more readily. …
I came across something that grabbed my attention the other day. I was working with a Silverlight application and had bound TextBox controls to two separate decimal properties of a ViewModel class. I was using the default formatting for display and was quite perplexed when I found that even though …
I read an article a while back written by an senior developer at Microsoft in which he advocated that EVERY serious developer should blog. It was some time back so I don’t remember the details but I remember being convinced the idea was not entirely without merit. So here I am. Tonight …