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 the [...]
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 this. [...]
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 views [...]
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 good.
In [...]
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 things which [...]
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 project [...]
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 made programming [...]
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