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I don't get ORMs...
Well, at least the ones I've tried. Let's take a quick jump back down memory lane... something that Frans Bouma said to me way back here (http://theruntime.com/blogs/jaykimble/archive/2005/06/01/63937.aspx#63954) struck a chord. I don't know ORMs that well, and despite my misgivings over Dynamic SQL, I thought I would take a second closer look and see if I could use an ORM to quickly prototype something.
Scott also chimed in (http://theruntime.com/blogs/jaykimble/archive/2005/06/01/63937.aspx#64010) and told me that I was missing the boat. The addition of a single field means that you gotta go do a bunch of work.
Before I continue I want to point...
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A quick post...
I have a couple small items that I want to mention.
If you are subscribed to my blog and not the Codebetter main feed (what's wrong with you that you're only subscribed to me???) you may have missed a review I posted for BitRock InstallBuilder Professional in our reviews area. You can check it out here.
Also, I wanted mention a freebie; Component Factory has released a free .Net GUI Control library (for Windows Forms not web) called the Krypton Toolkit. This library offers MS Office style components. A couple other important things is that it is targeted at .Net 2.0/Visual Studio 2005,...
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Web 2.0 (aka how to bring down the man)
[I guess it's been awhile since I wrote a post like this... I know some will flame me, some will agree, and some will ask me what the heck I just said]
So I have spent the last couple weeks trying to regularly read some blogs... I've been way behind and wanted to get myself re-integrated back into what's going on before I posted anything philosphical that I think is pertinent to the current news.
In the last couple weeks I have been reading about Web 2.0, the recent Gates Memo, etc. Scoble even commented on the memos yesterday. I want...
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Juval was Right All Along...
This post is all about giving anapology. I am a recovering language bigot. I have been a VB guy who has been known to start wars with other bloggers regarding VB.Net as a Dev. Langauge especially when I think the other blogger is maligning VB and therefore maligning my abilities as a developer. Juval Löwy is someone who I have called into question a number of times. Mainly because (and I usually admit this) he wrote an article back in VSM about 2 years ago where he predicted the direction of C# and VB. He stated that C# was going to...
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MS doesn't know how to name products...
I know I have been out of commission for a couple months (I just finished my last How-Select-Guide for a while). I also know that others have may have commented on this, but I feel a need to rehash (I've been out of commission and have been saving this one up).
I think the codenames are actually better than the marketing names for a number of MS' new products (BTW, in case you've forgotten I'm the CodeBetter guy who has a decent knowledge of marketing to developers). I won't comment on Vista, for numerous reasons, but mainly because marketing OSes is a...