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.Net Development
More thoughts on Microsoft Lightswitch
A couple weeks ago, Microsoft announced a tool called Lightswitch, and the response in the development community has been almost universally tepid. One of these responses really caught my eye, though. It was from Bill Vaughn, who’s been the patron saint of Microsoft data access for as long as there’s been Microsoft data access. This [...]
A schizophrenic development platform
It’s an occupational hazard, I guess. The .Net development platform is moving at an absolutely dizzying pace these days, and there’s no end in sight. Ordinarily, you might think that this is great news for Microsoft‘s customers, because we’re getting more innovation than we can swallow. That’s good, right? Umm… Image via Wikipedia Aside from [...]
Visual Studio locked up?
I could have kicked myself last week. I was running Visual Studio 2010 in a VMWare VM, and it kept locking up – it was driving me batty. The problem started out as one of those “once every four of five hours” kind of lock ups, but it eventually got to the point where I’d [...]
Automated patterns considered harmful
A couple years ago, if you read some of the “best practices” stuff coming out of Redmond, you’d have thought that software factories were going to transform software development. Thankfully, this turns out not to have been the case. I never met a software factory I didn’t detest almost immediately, and I’m glad the idea [...]
Smashing Magazine on Mastering CSS Coding
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are critical to web layout these days. If you do any web work at all, you owe it to yourself to have at least a passing knowledge of CSS, while most of us need a solid grasp of the subject. Just because CSS is nearly ubiquitous, however, doesn’t mean that it’s [...]
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