It’s ok to decouple your design from your implementation, as long as you eventually get to the implementation.

ASP.NET MVC. I know I’m not the first on this train. I don’t know why it took me so long… Ok, yes I do, and I’m going to tell you, in a longer than average anecdotal story about the problem: Ruby-on-Rails. People talk about Ruby like it’s the best thing since sliced [...]

Sorry, I can’t help it, the other theme was too busy, and I felt guilty about it almost every other day. (I didn’t think of it every day, or I would have every day.) I like this one. It’s much more my style — though nothing is ‘technically’ my style since I haven’t ever [...]

Eating your own dogfood again Microsoft?

This guy, Daniel Pollard, has a really cool blog with lots of neat asp.net/SharePoint/Webparts ideas and examples on it. It’s a good thing not to miss. He also notes that “JQuery is the Jessica Alba of JavaScript,” which I found terribly amusing. Ok. That’s it. Just an unsolicited advertisement for his blog [...]

I’ve been so frustrated with the lack of a flexible way to just display the output of a raw SQL Query via SharePoint so I wrote one.
At first I thought I didn’t need parameters, but I was wrong. Everyone needs parameters, or else it’s not all that useful. Of course, that [...]

If you’re trying to work with a ton of fake data, sometimes writing the code that generates all the fake stuff, yet still makes some bit of sense is an annoying and time consuming process. I think so too. Here, have a pronounceable (I think in most cases) LastNameGenerator class to help you on your [...]

Have you ever wondered what VooDoo is going on in the “MetaData” element in the sharepoint workflow template definition (Workflow.xml)? No? Well I have.
It’s not documented, but you can read it using the SharePoint Workflow API. (The method you can call is documented, that is, listed, in the MSDN documentation. It’s not actually [...]

So, I made one, except I posted it on CodeProject instead of this blog. I figured with this thing I wanted to get a lot of people in the audience. Not to mention that makes free advertising for me and my blog anyway.

IMAGINARY, NY — Associate Pressed
Three adolescent members of the Imaginary Neighborhood Watch were slapped with a court injunction today barring them from presenting their findings about the locked status of the Mrs. Fanny Frankenwilder’s back door. The three had planned to present a litany of possible exploits for such a door lock state at [...]