http://davedolan.com/blog Website not included. Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:46:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, here I go again. I don't want my sparsely populated blog to turn into a collection of articles from the Daily WTF, but I do want to use a real world example, with the names changed to protect the innocent and guilty, to illustrate a point. Design ... http://davedolan.com/blog/?p=157 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 ... http://davedolan.com/blog/?p=149 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 ... http://davedolan.com/blog/?p=145 Eating your own dogfood again, Microsoft? I'm on a page published by Microsoft, the makers of ASP.NET and the creators of the best practices for its use. Notice how they go to all of the trouble of defaulting the customErrors="On" in the web.config file when you create a new one. Right, ... http://davedolan.com/blog/?p=139 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 ... http://davedolan.com/blog/?p=137 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 ... http://davedolan.com/blog/?p=113 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 ... http://davedolan.com/blog/?p=103 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 ... http://davedolan.com/blog/?p=91 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. http://davedolan.com/blog/?p=90 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 ... http://davedolan.com/blog/?p=89