Blogs

Nope, this isn't a Halloween gag, but it's timed well. On Thursday, October 16, Jay Wren will be speaking about the Boo programming language at GLUGNet in Lansing. Boo is a statically typed language with a python-inspired syntax and it runs on the .NET platform. He will be discussing how to create...

Like many developers, I spend a lot of time reading and writing code every day. After hearing so many developers praise the "dark background/light text" colors that have become popular, I decided to switch too. I did some research and found a theme I really liked . I tweaked it very slightly...

I was intrigued by Steve Smith 's blog post yesterday about reducing SQL Lookup tables in nHibernate . He gave an example of a WorkOrderStatus class the exposed the actual status as a POCO object that wasn't stored in the database. What really piqued my interest was the following comment: NHibernate...

I see that Bill did Euler #11 earlier this week so I thought I'd tackle #12 . The first thing I wanted to do was write a routine to generate a triangle number. As we've seen throughout this series , LINQ can come in very handy: static int TriangleOf( int number) { return Enumerable.Range(1, number...

As I'm a big fan of Castle Project's MonoRail , I often get asked my opinion of the ASP.NET MVC stuff Microsoft is working on. And I always have the same answer -- I've seen some demos but haven't actually played around with it. So I took some time tonight and installed it. Installation...

Late last year as I was using MonoRail and ActiveRecord for a simple web application. I was helping my local church find volunteers with various skills to teach some basic computer courses to the the church staff. I wanted to keep track of the volunteers along with the skills they had. I used this as...

As a sort of follow-up to my AJAX and MonoRail post , I've put together a small project showing how you can easily use JSON with MonoRail . I planned on posting a blog entry and the code tonight but instead, I decided to spend some time working on the AJAX and JSON section of the MonoRail Users Guide...

It's time for Day of .NET Ann Arbor ! As John Hopkins has pointed out, the date is October 18th, 2008. Once again will be using Washtenaw Community College as our venue. Registration for this FREE event is now open and since we always "sell out", I would recommend an early registration...

Even though it's summertime, there are still a lot of meetings in Ann Arbor this week, and next. On Wednesday, July 2, Chris Sellers will be talking about Amazon EC2 at the Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting. That meeting will be held at SRT Solutions, 206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200, Ann Arbor, MI....

I did it, I started a blog. And I’ve gotta say, these first blog posts are pretty hard. There is the tried and true “about me” blog post, and there is the tactic of just writing a blog post like it’s a second post. But the fact of the matter is, this isn’t a second blog post. There may be people reading...