Archives for May 2007

ORM Smackdown on .Net rocks

I’ve just been listening to the .Net Rocks, ORM Smackdown show with Oren Eini and Ted Neward. It was a very interesting show with a couple of bright people who know their technology. There was one theme that came up a few times that I find nagging.

Oren referred to the point where you [...]

Smart Client Software Factory May 2007 is live

Wahoo! Cool stuff. I checked out one of there weekly builds from codeplex last week and if you are not convinced that Avalon[1] is going to seriously kick WinForms butt then you need to see this demo. I’ll post more on that another day, first I have to bitch.

So, a new release of [...]

The SourceGear Fortress deal

If the software is as nice as the shirt, it may be worth checking out. I can certainly vouch for Vault being a great product. We have been using it here for the last three years.

 
Thanks Eric.

PUT versus POST

I have seen many conflicting descriptions of the uses of PUT and POST. The description below is quite clear and leads me to wonder why so many people confuse the two.

From here in the HTML spec,

“The fundamental difference between the POST and PUT requests is reflected in the different meaning of the Request-URI. The [...]

UAC is our fault

I normally try to avoid doing “me to” entries but this post deserves a shout out. Turn your UAC back on today! Maybe then all the problems will be fixed by the time I upgrade from XP to Vista J

Using ServiceModel.Web to return XML documents instead of Data Contracts

So this may be heresy to some, but I really don’t like returning data contracts.  If I understand correctly, Erik Johnson is saying pretty much the same thing here when he says “Please dont make us write objects to an HTTP context. We write data to an HTTP stream.”
Anyway, if anyone else is trying to [...]