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Moving Day...
[Update 12/19/2007 1:30pm(est) : We are now fully moved in.... the fun of any system issues are now in our hands... I think I should be scared now... ]
You may have noticed that our site has seemed sluggish since our humble beginnings back in November. I won't trash on our hosting company (although I think they would deserve it... BTW, it's the same hosting company that CodeBetter.com started on, and we had similar issues)
Anyway, we moved to our own dedicated server. Hopefully the ad revenue will pick up, so we don't have to fork too much out of all of...
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Patiently waiting on Web 3.0...
[Admittedly this is somewhat of a rant, but there is some technical discussion...]
Let me start this off by saying that I am an Ajax guy. One of my specialties has been Ajax enabled web apps (and I have been doing them since it was called DHTML-enabled web apps or Javascript-enabled web apps... which means since 2000 --and probably before that). Also, I really do have a love-hate relationship with Javascript. It's true. In one sense I really appreciate the niftiness of extending the language/object model (or overriding it) by simply adding functions to the prototype, or to the object itself. It is...
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Is it 80% and 20% or is 20% too high...
A bit of Philosophy from me today. I saw a couple posts recently that have had me thinking about something I've felt for awhile. And not to go all elitist on you, but I want you dear reader to think about this.
The title of this post references a Coding Horror post called "The Two Types of Programmers." Like myself Jeff is a bit of a philosopher (sometimes maybe too much for his own good).
Anyway, Jeff got a lot of readers riled up by this post. So today I also saw this post by ALT.NETer Phill Haacked entitled "Composition over Inheritance...
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Initial Volta Thoughts...
A lot of new things are flying around in the .NET world. We have all the new (released) goodness of .NET3.5 and VS2008, so there's still a bit to talk about there. And there are some new CTPs out there (most notably the ASP.NET Extensions which contains among other things ASP.NET MVC). This article is actually my initial thoughts about something else: Volta.
An "Official" Script#??Volta is a new way to create Web apps using any .NET language. You tag (with attributes) parts of your app into tiers. The Web tier gets translated into html and Javascript, and the other tiers...