I went on vacation at the end of July and returned in early August. Life restarted in fits and starts. But somehow I neglected to get this blog started again. Now that five months have passed, I think it is time to begin again. So without further ado...

As i was planning my rewrite of NJTheater.com I looked at a couple different Object-Relationship Mappers (mostly code generators which examined a database schema and produced one class per table to read and write rows to it. All seemed particularly lacking...

Well, as I promised months ago, I've created my second CodePlex project. Actually, I created months ago, while this site was down (as the artist I am, I think I'll refer to that as it's "black period"), But now that I'm back...

Yes, after about 5 months of downtime, I finally was able to restore my blog. What happened was, sometime mid-July, the PC that was running Sql Server on my network died. It was acting funny for a few weeks, so I took it off line. I removed the hard disk...

Two meetings in and going strong. Chad Boyd gave a great presentation on SQL Server 2005 and its new best friend the CLR. Jason Fabritz walked us through the differences in developing ASP.NET applications with the Web Dev Server and IIS. We also officially...

After many months to checking out the new projects on CodePlex almost daily, it's finally time for me to create one. As you might know, I also run the website, NJTheater.com. Written about 10 years ago, all in classic ASP, it has a forum section Read...

It seems every 3 years or so I need to be slapped upside the head and reminded that in SQL Server... record order in a result set is not guaranteed unless you use ORDER BY So I don't have to be hit in the head again, I'm writing it down. The issue...

I hate writing the same code twice. Not just because I am a horrible typist, but because writing the same code twice means testing it twice, debugging it twice, maintaining it twice, etc. I recently ran into a situation where this looked unavoidable....

Recently I was looking at some C# code where the author, to loop through some collection, would frequently use call GetEnumerator() and the manually step through the collections, calling MoveNext(). It seemed to me that the code could be written more...

There is always some part of a system that works, but is far from elegant. It annoys, but it is never critical enough or broken "enough" to warrant replacing it. Like a car radio with a stripped knob -- it's painful to change the volume...

Michael Herman recently discovered a typo in the MSDN docs : " IEnumberable: the integer version of IEnumerable? :-) " This reminded me of a method that I've been planning on presenting here: A simple Counting iterator. Basically, it appears...

I've come within a few hours of letting the entire month of April go by without post even one blog entry. So, where the heck have I been? First off, on the 9th, I started a new job. I'm now back to working in NYC, and back to working on C#, after...

Spent Saturday getting my geek on at the NOVA (Nothern Virigina to those of you outside of the greater Washington DC area) Code Camp . The camp was pulled together by Jeffrey Schoolcraft who marshalled a host of volunteers, speakers and contributors to...

While working through an ASP.NET issue in the small hours I was googling around looking for a solution when I stumbled across this site for Python On Planes . It claimed to solve my problem, so I downloaded it. I was amazed, even though I only had a rudimentary...

There are four (development) life annoyances that I can do without: Recruiters who only use the state abbreviation to describe a job location. "Urgent need for Senior .NET Developer, Location: CA" Forum posters who demand code for entire applications...