December 2006 - Posts

Sunday, December 24, 2006 9:12 AM

In Memory of Douglas Reilly

One of the first book that I bought about .NET is an entry level book entitled:"Designing Microsoft ASP.NET Applications" by Douglas Reilly.  Made when  .NET was still in its infancy(v1.0), it still nevertheless gave me the foundation for web application using .NET as the platform. Looking at his credentials, he looked like a well rounded guy(used Delphi and .NET platform for his company, MVP ), and his writing style is far from being too serious.

However Douglas Reilly was already suffering from a condition called:mucinous adenocarcinoma, which led to cancer. His wife kept a blog about Douglas' condition. He passed away 23rd Dec 2006, peacefully.

Thank you Douglas Reilly, for being such a wonderful author, you have given me the foundation to build upon as ASP.NET progresses.

Programming Microsoft Web Forms, was his last book.
 
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:12 PM

CodeMash: Have .NET in your Java

Disregarding the cool although a rather brutal name,  CodeMash aims to demystify the different  development platforms' practices and methodologies and maybe put an end(or at least minimize) the ".NET is better than Java or Ruby is better than .NET" crap by very passionate platform developers and instead learn from each other's platform.


From the site itself:

What is CodeMash?

CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP. Held January 18-19, 2007 at the lush Kalahari resort in Sandusky, Ohio, attendees will be able to attend a world-class technical conference amid Ohio's largest indoor waterpark. So nobody will frown if you show up in shorts, sandals, and your loudest t-shirt. You might even win a prize for doing so.


  
CodeMash – I'll be there!



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Sunday, December 10, 2006 9:47 AM

Sql Server 2005 Tip:Implicit Conversion of bit data types

Didn't you know that the following statement is now valid for Sql Server 2005 as criteria for a column with bit data type?

SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE Processed = 'true'

The engine is now intelligent enough to implicitly convert it to

SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE Processed = 1

More readable, imo. Too bad it's Sql Server 2005 only.


 
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