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Welcome Thomas S. Williams... or TRT goes global
You may have noticed that our main feed was recently populated with a bunch of of our new blogger Thomas S. Williams posts (the SubText BlogML importer’s fault... sorry about that... I have tried to correct the problem... sometimes I swear that no one who develops for SubText really tests on community-based sites). Thomas has been blogging for almost as long as I have (4 years). He specializes in SQL and VB. Check out his stuff! Oh yeah, he’s our first non-US blogger (he’s from the land down under).
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An Answer to my post for young programmers
My good buddy (actually my best friend from High School), "The Witt" complained that I wasn’t being helpful to programmers who are trying to learn the craft when I posted two weekends ago on "A Question you should ask when hiring a non-entry level developer." (OK, he wasn’t the only one... but, hey, we have a history, so he can get me to post a response, and you can’t... deal...) I decided that our subsequent conversation in email would make a good followup post for those who want to know what they should be doing, and with his...
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A Question you should ask when hiring a non-entry level developer
And I mean every developer. If you are an entrepreneur and you are hiring a consultant to work on your hot idea you need to do this. It could cost you everything if you don’t. I recently took on a side project. It’s a return to a project I did 2 years ago. Since I have worked on it there have been at least 2 other people on the project. I’m writing this for the Business Development guy (the guy I assume hired the other folks). I am not writing this to "cut" on the other developer (I am...
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To Cache, To Static, or To Session "When?" is the question
DonXML has an interesting article over here that got me thinking about a technique I have been using for years now, and I’m not sure I’ve seen much written about it. The basic tenet begins like this: I avoid session like the plague (not sure why except I have visions of some abuses I have seen... like full DataTable’s stored in session). The only time and I mean the ONLY TIME I use Session is if I have a value that needs to be associated with a user across the WHOLE site. As a result I really try to...