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DLRScript Project - Revealed...
[You know I hate making announcements... It seems like my expectations are always higher than what actually happens. I've announced stuff before that I thought was somewhat impressive -- maybe not though-- with like zero interest]
This weekend I created a new project over at CodePlex called "DLRScript." I put this ominous description - "DLRScript is a SilverLight 2.0 sample using the DLR. It is based on the DLRConsole found in the sample in the SilverLight 2.0 SDK, but with a new advanced twist (check back here for more info later... I want to be the first to do this which...
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Clarification on POUT... POUT != Test Last...
[Editted this... sometimes I need to turn off the "smack down" and resist the urge to do what appears to be flaming... I didn't really mean to] Ok, I'm throwing this out there for Jacob. I just read where someone created (an excellent article on) yet another Testing acronym. The post, BTW, is well thought except that I THINK he misses the point of what POUT is (and he has comments turned off so I can't slap him for missing Jacob's point). He lumps POUT in with the test-last crowd (which I know I am sometimes a part of). He claims...
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On Hiring a Brainy Developer...
I recently have been reading some interesting posts on hiring. I've seen people talk about hiring specifically for your project (so tailor the minutiae questions reflect your needs...) Seriouly some of the stuff I have seen suggested seems dumb to me.
All this has gotten me thinking about a time when Erik (the architect at one of my last jobs) and I (Dave Balzer may have been in on it too... I forget) were interviewing this guy, and we were desperate we had projects coming out our ears and not enough people to work. This guy comes in and he's brilliant......
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JScript and HashTables...
About a year ago I released HashTable within my little library of MS Ajax Clientside goodies (AKA the DTAjax project over on CodePlex). It's been awhile since I've visited with that code (and honestly I didn't look at it today). When I released it I mentioned that I had a HashTable. Someone almost immediately responded to me asking if that was really necessary since JavaScript already could do that.
I never really answered the question because... uhh... well... I didn't really have an answer. You see there's a feature of JavaScript that I had either forgotten about or learned in the...
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ORMs... Their Real Benefit
This is kind of a strange post from me, but I've started thinking about some things in regards to ORM products due to my fun with LINQ To SQL. First of all, I'm not sure LINQ to SQL has this benefit (I could definitely be wrong about this), but I'm pretty sure that LINQ To SQL Entities does have (again, I don't speak as one who knows).
The difference is caching. I know that NHibernate has some strategies for caching your data, as does something like LLBLGen (I checked... I don't want Frans coming down on me). I'm pretty sure SubSonic...
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On POUT
[Not that I want to turn TRT (TheRunTime.com) into a testing blog... I wanted to make echo some of Jacob's points over here and add a few of my own].
I'm doing a little more java for the next few weeks and I ran into a situation where a set of unit tests would come in handy... actually I really need to test a couple classes (yeah, the codebase is in severe need of a little bit more testing). I have yet to really use JUnit, but I'm decent with MbUnit (which is NUnit on steroids). One of the cool things...