This entry won’t be much to anyone used to working with sql or refactoring or the With Clause, but sometimes I like to just walk thru how I started and how I ended when refactoring, and SQL can be refactored just like any other type of code. I ...[Read More]

So recursion is one of my favourite programming structures, it’s elegant and fun to think thru.  but I just discovered a little bit of a nasty issue with JavaScript and Recursion.  Global Variables. So here is my example html <div id="o ...[Read More]

If you have read my earlier posts (here and here), you may know that for two days I was working on making it possible to show a specific SharePoint restricted tag in a blog post hosted in SharePoint Blog application (in this case it was the <em ...[Read More]

So, yesterday I decided to get and install all the live framework tools (to go along with my mesh beta and azure beta work), was in the process of downloading the items for that, when I saw that ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTW (that’s a new MS TLA, for Relea ...[Read More]

They are keeping us hopping, those of us trying to become Live Framework programmers.  With MVC, Live Framework Development, Mesh, and Azure programming, just trying to keep my system set-up and and working with the latest stuff is a chore in of i ...[Read More]

In an earlier post I did about a question one of my Compadres asked me, I made mention of my #1 DB rule, and said it was a post for a later time… Well it’s that time. This was the FIRST rule of database design that I learned from having to deal ...[Read More]

So today I had a question from one of my compadres who isn’t very strong in T-SQL.  He had originally designed his database using a publically visible property to associate two tables which is a no-no in my book (and that’s a whole other article ...[Read More]

I’m working with a colleague on a new ASP.NET MVC web application, and for various reasons he needed to implement some login security for the public.  So he decided to use the built in security provider that was built on top of the ASP.NET provid ...[Read More]

Was doing my daily RSS feed trolling when I saw a new announcement from the Windows Azure team that they were converting Azure over to use UTC some time soon. Azure Moving to UTC Talk about red-faced, silly me, I’ve been developing against Azur ...[Read More]