Well, it is about that time again :-)

In about a month I’ll be returning to the UK to give another round of my NHibernate Course. It has been a while since I gave that in London, but the previous two runs were very successful, and I had great time teaching it.

This course is meant to give you working knowledge how to effectively use NHibernate in your applications, based on real world expertise.

You can register here: http://skillsmatter.com/course/open-source-dot-net/core-persistence-with-nhibernate

I am having a friendly competition with a friend about the stupidest support questions that we get from random people we never met. I posted about this previous, but I really can’t resist posting the content of something that I just received, it is either that or figure out how to send a nuke via email.

Hi,

Im f[removed] from Malaysia…. I has look at ur website about SOA. Did u do SOA application? Actually im a new learner, my knowledge are 0 about programming. I take an e-commerce course, at here I just do like a practical for 6 month and now I need to do on SOA. If u can help, I need some information about SOA, how to integrate the application, service and database. I help u can help me…

Thank you,

Best Regards;

F[removed]

This is the actual email text, I merely removed this guy name.

Therefore, I unilaterally declare myself the winner of the stupidest support emails contest.

I don’t actually have an opinion about the actual feature, but I felt that I just have to comment on this post, from Brad Wilson, about the [Required] attribute in ASP.Net MVC 2.

Approximately once every 21.12 seconds, someone will ask this question on the ASP.NET MVC forums

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The answer is the title of this blog post. ([Required] Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does)

If this is the case, I have to say that the design of [Required] is misleading, and should be change to match the expectations of the users.

We have a pretty common case of plenty of users finding this behavior problematic, the answer isn’t to try to educate the users, the answer is to fix the design so it isn’t misleading.

I am pretty sure that when the spec for the feature was written, it made sense, but that doesn’t mean that it works in the real world. I think it should either be fixed, or removed. Leaving this in would be a constant tripwire that people will fall into.