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Delayed execution vs ToList() in LINQ Database Queries

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:02 GMT

Should you use ToList() in your repository methods, or should you pass the iterator back to the UI to delay the execution of the query? Read on to find out why it's a bad idea to delay execution in this case.

Asp.Net vs php : Speed Comparison

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:00:00 GMT

Why is the myth that php is faster than Asp.Net so prevalent? Asp.Net is faster than php, here are the facts. So many times I have heard php pushers claim that php is so much faster than Asp.Net and that Asp.Net is clunky and slow. The most annoying part is that everything I have read (that is not factless opinion), and I mean everything, says that this is wrong; but for some reason, this myth is widely accepted. It has become a religious argument that ignores the facts...

Learning Doesn't Work if You Don't Do It Right...

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:56:03 GMT

If you're going to spend time reading and searching, make sure you know what works best for your brain.

Learning new Programmming Languages and Technologies

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Recently, I've read article after article about how part of being a good software developer is about being open to new technologies, and to "learn new things" - and I'd be foolish not to agree. However...

How to test your multi-threaded code (part 1 of 3)?

Thu, 07 May 2009 01:01:04 GMT

CHESS is the answer. At least this is what we have best right now.

Building a Progressive Fluent Interface

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:31:32 GMT

Taking a look at how to build a Progressive Fluent Interface which is a DSL where the options can and will change as you progress through the syntax. This is a useful form of a fluent interface if the want to be able to skillfully guide the user down only one path at a time.

Construct a comma delimited list from table column with SQL

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:16:08 GMT

How many times have you had to create a comma delimited list from a table column? Do you ever remember how to do it? I don't. Here is a little snippet I find useful

YourTopJob.com - Find IT jobs across the UK

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:38:50 GMT

Job site, with IT jobs, across the UK

RegEx Multiple Matches with Lookahead Assertion

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:16:04 GMT

This is a quick article where I would like to show how to use regular expression to get all matches of a particular pattern from the string.

SQL Find last week date range

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:31:04 GMT

The other day we needed to write a report on online sales for the last week. SQL doesn't offer developers many predefined functions to work with date ranges unlike the C# programming language. Here is a little example how to query SQL for some data between the dates for the last week.

Anders Hejlsberg: The future of programming languages

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:31:02 GMT

In this video Anders Hejlsberg takes a look at the future of programming languages and sees the trends; declarative, dynamic and concurrent. As the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of the .NET Framework Anders Hejlsberg has a lot to say about this development - not just as a wish but also as something that can be realized.

ListBox Extension Method for Get and Set Selected Values

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:28:28 GMT

ASP.Net ListBox control allows two types of selection mode: single and multiple. Working in single selection mode is similar to working with DropDown list control. Use ListBox.SelectedValue to get the value that was selected by a user. In order to set a selection SelectedIndex property can be used or Selected property of a particular item should be set to true.

BlogEngine Flaws

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:01:10 GMT

Recently I've been having problems as the site has gotten more popular I've had comments and even posts disappearing randomly, sometimes re-appearing you might have experienced this yourself either on my site or in your own so after divulging into the code to see what was happening found something I thought was shocking. When you add a comment, or Rating, Approving and Remove Comments this is what BlogEngine DbBlogProvider actually does...

Web developers. You suck.

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:46:05 GMT

Well, JavaScript developers, specifically. In order to aid in development of my own websites, I enabled JavaScript debugging in Internet Explorer a few weeks back. To my horror, I have quickly experienced what seems to be complete disregard for serving syntactically correct JavaScript on the open internet. No, I'm not just talking about a few niche websites, run by amateur programmers. I am talking about industry-leading nerd-friendly powerhouse websites that should know better.

Get Checked Repeater Items Extension Method

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:46:12 GMT

Imagine you have a list of some items and checkboxes next to each item providing the ability for a user to make multiple choices and submit a result in one go. Weather you are implementing a news groups subscription, user survey or online products catalogue - the code behind is the same: we bind some object list to a data control like Repeater, add a checkbox to every item, set checkbox value to item ID.

enum to friendly string extension method

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:01:02 GMT

We use enums quite extensively in our application as they are a great for representing integral values in a strongly typed way using symbolic names. The enum names are not very friendly to the user and I recently read a some good articles which tried to solve this problem. However, I think i've found a better solution to this problem using extension methods.

SCOPE_IDENTITY() return the id from the database on insert

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:16:03 GMT

As a .NET programmer most of my time is spent coding in C# and I try to avoid writing SQL where possible. Recently I had to write an insert stored procedure and needed to return the ID of the row I was inserting. While writing my usual bad SQL I came across a fascinating function I've never used before, SCOPE_IDENTITY().

Slice - Collection Slicing Extension Method

Tue, 13 May 2008 16:46:02 GMT

A recreation of Python collection slicing in .NET using extension methods.

Why can't you have handlers with multiple paths in web.config

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:34:04 GMT

I have created IIS7 asset handler for my application which deals with images and stylesheets by serving them from a CMS database. For some reason the new IIS7 handlers section doesn't allow multiple paths for a handler, so you have to map each path like so...

A C# Operator I would like to see.

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:46:03 GMT

You could argue there are too many operators in C# as it is; however, I feel having an acute knowledge of the available operators is like knowing CTRL + B will bold the selected text in most word processing software. To put it simply, it hurts no-one, whilst providing shortcuts to advanced users...

Implementing Generic Caching

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:46:02 GMT

I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications - and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem.

Being a "nice" programmer

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:16:02 GMT

Being a C# developer by trade, I naturally spend a lot of my working life programming computers. Whilst I by no-means profess to be a "guru" of any kind, I do notice that there is one aspect of software development that is often neglected from discussion, and most programmers will hopefully agree with me as I explain.