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What Tool Should You Learn Next?
What Tool Should You Learn Next? As a follow on to yesterdays editorial about keeping your skills current I wanted to consider how to choose what skills to keep current. I have been following a thread regarding which language is better, C# or VB.net. I don’t have an answer, and none of the responders to the thread had any definitive […]
Insider: Secrets of Debugging
(Peter Vogel) Even with following a Test Driven Development regime, my code doesn’t work the first time (pretend you’re surprised). So debugging is a critical skill for me. Also, as a hired gun, I’m frequently having to deal with someone else’s code, which often isn’t working the way everyone expect
How to Implement Trackback Handler in ASP.NET MVC
(Keyvan Nayyeri) Being familiar with common web concepts, you would know trackback as one of the common author notification mechanisms on the web that has become very common, and it helps site owners and authors stay up to date with the latest reactions to their content and connect relevant contents
Use ViewModels to manage data & organize code in ASP.NET MVC applications
(Rachel Appel) The concept of the ViewModel isn’t just for ASP.NET MVC, as you’ll see references to ViewModels throughout the web in articles and blog posts about the MVC, MVP, and MVVM patterns. Those posts and articles can center around any number of technologies such as ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF,
Index Organized Tables – the Basics.
(Martin Widlake) I think Index Organized Tables(IOTs) are a much under-used and yet very useful feature of Oracle. Over the next few postings I’m going to cover some aspect of Index Organised Tables, both good and not-so-good. I am going to cover some benefits of IOTs that I think many people are un
How I became a REST ‘convert’
(Dana Gardner) Many of you know me as one half of the ZapThink team—an advisor, analyst, sometimes-trainer, and pundit that has been focused on XML, web services, service oriented architecture (SOA), and now cloud computing over the past decade or so.
XQuery Lab 64 – Reading values from an XML column
(Jacob Sebastian) I got a question in my personal forum this morning requesting help to read values from an XML column. My first reaction was “Well, there is an XQuery lab demonstrating this!”. However, after reviewing the existing XQuery labs, I realized there are no posts demonstrating this.
Show Assemblies in the Add Reference Dialog Box
Visual Studio’s Add Reference dialog box allows assemblies to reference each other in order that code from one assembly can be accessed from another. The use of the dialog box can be improved by including custom assemblies in the standard list.
Death to the File?
(Angela Guess) Alex Boyer recently shared his thoughts on why it’s time to move past the file and how semantic technology can take us there. He writes, “Files are an outdated concept.