Ponderring
Killer Applications: Gmail vs. Outlook Web Access
It came up in a conversation today. Gmail & OWA are doing much the same thing, using much the same technologies. Yet it was Gmail who was the Ajax killer application, not OWA. Why?
Reflections on the Naked CLR
I am teaching beginners right now, and we started out from: using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(Settings.Default.Database)) { connection.Open(); ...
Java & Spring: Impressions From a non coding perspective
I am a bit funny when it comes to learning technology, I read about it away from the computer, because otherwise there would be a lot of stuff that I would be doing that would interfer with the process of actually reading a book. Anyway, I am reading Agile Java Development right now, and I got to the point where the author shows how to build a simple page. The sheer amount of steps required is scaring me. What is more worrying is that the author keeps saying how simple this is compare...
If coding is too hard...
Jeremy has a great quote here: I think you can almost break coding philosophies into two general camps. Camp #1: Coding is too hard, so let's not write code anymore. Model Driven Architecture, Executable UML, Business Rules engines, Rapid Application Development ...
Active Record & Repository<T>
I am currently thinking about my next project, and I really want to use Active Record, and at the same time, I really want to be able to utilize Repository<T> and decorators chains or not. A long time ago I made sure that Active Record will be usable without utilizing the "Active Record"-ness of it, so it wasn't that hard to build an IRepository<T> implementation for it, implementing UnitOfWork was a bit more tricky, since I wanted to keep the option to use NHibernate / Active Record at will, as always, another layer of...