Quick list of geeky activities performed over the holiday break Continue reading
Category Archives: Technology
Holiday tech project: New Netbook!
Our home has a brand new Asus EEE PC 1005HA kicking around now, and I have to say I’m really happy with it. Its tiny, its fun, its fast. The only thing I even vaguely miss is the CDROM drive, but not really. Nice things to say about the Asus: You can upgrade the RAM … Continue reading
Gmail Fail
See this is what I mean about Gmail. How is this helpful? Why did we hide the text of all of the messages, and show instead only a screenshot of the attachment? Labels I love. Filters I love. No folders, excellent search: I’m on board! But the Gmail thread view is a bad idea patiently … Continue reading
WCF: A Better Web Service?
According to Microsoft: Windows Communication Foundation is… a part of the .NET Framework that provides a unified programming model for rapidly building service-oriented applications that communicate across the web and the enterprise. If you’ve talked to me about technology or read my blog, you’ll know I’m a big fan of asynchronous, queue based messaging architectures. … Continue reading
Deficiency
The promise of LINQ is that beautiful, expressive syntax once you have your tables nestled away in the ORM. Instead of queries being, essentially strings- dead, lifeless offerings that need to be burned on the SqlClient altar in hopes that they reach the far away distant ears of the SQL Server gods, queries are alive … Continue reading
Google: The DNS Tzar?
As far as technology fans go, I like to think of myself as healthily skeptical. Sure, I can love Open Source while seeing that until Ubuntu it did not have a viable option for the client. I can hate Microsoft licensing and still think SQL Server is an excellent platform. I can love Apple and … Continue reading
Retooling
The beginning of a software project can be a great time to look at your tools with fresh eyes. Sure, you’ve been doing just fine all along with Visual Studio 2005 for years, but all right, fine now that 2010 is in beta it’s probably time to take a hard look at Visual Studio 2008. … Continue reading
Aynchronous Messaging vs. RPC
The comparative merits of asynchronous messaging Continue reading
Kyle Hodgson 