September 2007 Blog Posts

  • A Night of Ajax in Ohio... October 15th, 2007 at 6:00 pm

    Ok, we have a location and a date.  Monday, October 15th, 2007 at the MS offices in Cleveland.  The address is 6050 Oak Tree Blvd, Cleveland, Ohio 44131.  Click here for a map.  We will have pizza and soft drinks.  It's going to be a fun time. I'll be speaking for about 2 hours giving my Intro to MS Ajax, my Best Practices with MS Ajax, and my JavaScript Alternatives talks.  It will be a good opportunity to get acquainted with the MS Ajax framework (BTW this is also known as the "Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax 1.0 Extensions."  BTW, that last talk will...

  • Should We Be Abstracting SQL Connections into Objects???

    [I know I have your attention.  So before you start reading this thinking it's an anti-ORM post or something of that nature.  It's not.  It's about something entirely different (look at the tags).  I am actually attacking a fairly popular notion that I have run into a bit recently and while I may see the point I think the argument misses some critical things... that said... on with the post...] I have been in Java hell over the last several days.  To be specific I have been in Apache Cayenne ORM caching hell.  I have been dealing with an update...

  • Customer Service and a new Laptop...

    About 3 weeks ago, my laptop's 1 year warranty ran out.  So you can almost imagine where this is going... The good news is that my laptop had a major issue about 1 month ago (yep, 1 week before warranty ran out).  What happened?  Well I was tweaking Vista and noticed that there was a recommended BIOS update on the Gateway site for anyone running Vista.  So I downloaded the burning software, and the update... actually I saved this one for last, but was having some painful WiFi issues that I decided to go for it. Well, the burn completed successfully, BUT upon...