[This has been in the queue for a long time - over 12 months - codebetter just tipped me over the edge!] Peter Van Dijck asks: I’ve only worked twice with companies using .NET for web interfaces, and in both cases the UI was a disaster and the usability problems guaranteed lots of consulting hours.. [...]
Oren is talking about building a substrate for an enterprise platform. This has been something I’ve wanted to do since I first got my hands on c# and the rest of the .net framework in 2001. I’ve never done it because it always seemed that a one size fits all solution would be unworkable. At [...]
It seems like the win32 crowd is discovering memcached. I’ve got a couple of support queries about it over the last month or two and I thought I’d post an interesting one here: “How can you run multiple instances of memcached on a single machine?” There’s a couple of reasons why you’d want to do [...]
I got a chance over the weekend to watch the videos from altnetconf on the new Microsoft ASP.NET MVC framework. It’s a really exciting development. Anyway – as I’ve listened I’ve got myself a list of questions about features – I figured I’d put them here so I can see how they get on. In [...]
Today I spent a long time trying to add a control to the Page.Controls collection from a MasterPage. Short version: without writing a(nother) IHttpModule which hooks Page_PreLoad and fires off an event of it’s own on the MasterPage. You can’t. (unless I’m missing something). Another classic example of WebForms being too complicated for it’s own [...]
I’ve been mulling over Ron Kohavi’s paper Integrating E-Commerce and Data Mining: Architecture and Challenge. In the space of applications that I work on – Business Intelligence and Analytics are becoming more and more important. It’s not just important that the system allows you to do whatever. (The classic post Blog entries for example). I [...]
Scott Bellware makes a brillant comment on Hammett’s weblog: ASP .NET templated controls did almost nothing to encourage separation of orthogonal concerns. It simply ended up separating concerns that aren’t separate concerns. Pure Genius – this summarises an entire field of criticism (e.g. [1][2]). The whole issue with the OnRowDataBound/FindControl() style of programming is that [...]
Note: This is a review of the recently release BackgroundMotion source code and developer guidance. Full disclosure – I used to work with Jeremy and consider him a friend. I finally made some time today to sit down and browse through the source code for BackgroundMotion. For those of you who haven’t come across this [...]
A couple of things have got me thinking along these lines recently. Giles Bowkett made an interesting post on his blog: “[T]his has always been my fear for Rails; that in five to ten years, the worst jobs you could get will be Rails jobs where you’re maintaining stuff built by non-programmers who figured Rails [...]
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