Archives for May 2006

Open Source Java

Eric has entry on the future of Java now that Sun’s new leader is talking about letting go. I have always felt that if Sun hadn’t stopped Microsoft innovating their JVM that we would all be Java programmers by now and the language debate would be mute.

CAB is wonderful

This post is long overdue but I’ve been busy
We have been using Microsoft’s CAB framework now since January and I could not be happier with how it is going. We are definitely still learning, but we have converted a large part of our existing .Net application over to use the [...]

Stored Procedures with no results

I’ve been having a problem with big hairy report that I have been writing. The T-SQL for the report involved creating a cursor, traversing the cursor and inserting records into a temporary table. Because it was big and ugly I wrapped it up in a stored proc. The problem was that when [...]

Xml but not XHtml

I finally got to the bottom of something that has been bothering me for a while. I generate my company website using a bunch of Xml files and an XSLT stylesheet. I have a small C# app that traverses a project file and builds all the pages. I recently upgraded the C# [...]