Code rant

Microsoft has a big problem with encapsulation. It's tools don't support it, it's advice goes against it and your average VB.NET...

I've really been enjoying reading Steve Yegge's blog , and that's not only because it's got the word 'rant' in the t...

I've just been reading this post by Frans Bouma 'Stored Procedures are bad m'kay' where he rebuts some of the usual argumen...

What is 'the reference data problem'? In our Winforms application we cache reference data at startup. We hold a reference to that re...

Note this is not an original idea. I'm sure I saw someone describe something similar on a blog a while back. I couldn't find the ori...

This blog by Steve Yegge, a programmer at Amazon, is an excellent diatribe comparing programming languages. No mention of C#, my profession...

I'm currently working on a windows form application. We've tried to follow good OO principles in designing our business domain class...

I recently discovered a nice pattern for dealing with self joins, and many-to-many joins in a Data Access Layer. Here's the problem. In ...

This is a great blog: If broken it is, fix it you should . She goes really deep into dot net debugging tools and there's some great advi...

I was playing around writing Macros for VS 2003 recently, exploring the CodeModel API and came up with this little solution profiler that co...