January 2007 Blog Posts

.NET Code Generation Tools I've Tried

I was asked the other day, given that I have talked about IdeaBlade DevForce on my blog: what other code generators/object-relational mappers had I tried, and why did I eventually choose IdeaBlade? I thought that might make an interesting blog post and had to go scratching around in my memory back to mid 2004, when I first thought to myself that there *might* be an easier way than writing repetitive routines to return datasets from hand-crafted stored procedures to access 40+ tables and then making the UIs for all of it ;-) First, here's a brief list of some of the tools...

OT: 5 Meme

Adam Cogan tagged me in the "5 things that most people don't know about me" meme that's going around - thanks Adam...I was feeling left out :-( So here is 5 random things that most people would not know about me: I wanted to be an Air Force pilot when I was a kid - an eye test when I was 12 pretty much killed that idea (I remember hearing from a career counsellor "You could still be a navigator", and almost crying again). After that, I had no idea what I wanted to do, right up to starting Uni. I have an...

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