UI design is truly an art and source code is poetry.  This quote comes from Emperor Chi-Long during the Qing Dynasty.  Because, as you know the Chinese invented computers over 400 years ago.  They always do everything first as you know.  In Chi-Long’s book “The Art of... [More]

Syed Ali discussed stored procedures and why use them.  I posted my comments there but thought it was worthy of an entry in the blog.  There are some things I hate about them as well but I feel they have some very distinct advantages too so they are a necessary evil.  I don't see how ... [More]

I read Paul Nielsen post on stored procedure. According to him stored procedures are good for the applications. He is not only talking about logical or business process stored procedure, but he also encouraged developer for CRUD stored procedures. I think, it is good idea. There is no harm to use th... [More]

We have all come to love our IDE features and take them for granted nowadays. Features like intellisense, code-complete, refactoring and code organization and of course the use of Regions. The #region and #endregion keywords basically provides the ability to hide code and collapse it into a short w... [More]

  CSharp 3.0 introduced the var keyword for declaring variables without having to explicitly specify the type. This was done for using anonymous types returned from LINQ queries. Now, I am seeing many developers use it all over their code and think its a good thing. Wasn’t C# developed ... [More]

Recently, I had lunch with a good friend of mine, Jim Hogan of Enaxis Consulting.  He specializes in corporate strategies and processes to make business more productive.  We discussed a number of things from business opportunities, the market to technology, but one thing Jim said rea... [More]

This week, my project manager sent me a youTube.com link, and told me that a user in management at the company where I work wanted to see a clearer version of it and understand how it could help us.  So I went to work finding out more about the demo.  I found out that it was a presentation... [More]

Many of the people wanting to getting into programming or web design are initially excited, until they find out how developers have to learn to stay productive.  What I have to learn in an average year is the equivalent of what I learned in 2 years in college. If I had know this before getting ... [More]