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Stored procedures are the Devil

This is a nice short concise article on some of the common mistakes developers make when working with databases. My favourite quote: Too often database code isn't subject to the same standards of design, test, and code review that we demand for the rest of our applications. When you're tempted to put...

Posted to Abstract Deviance (Weblog) by craig on 03-17-2006
Notes from the field: 2.0, remoting and NHibernate

First off, in case you, like me, didn’t know this: in 2.0 the SOAP formatter (the default formatter if you’re using an HTTP channel) does not support serializing generic objects. Luckily, once you figure that out, it’s trivial to switch to the binary formatter. Also, if you’re planning on using SoapSuds...

Posted to Abstract Deviance (Weblog) by craig on 01-30-2006
The view from the Dragon's maw

So; it's been quiet around here. You might have noticed. Then again, perhaps not. I've been busy you see, with work. Or something masquerading quite cleverly as work anyway. I must report that I have a new-found respect for analysts, married to a bitter hatred of the activity itself. You see, for the...

Posted to Abstract Deviance (Weblog) by craig on 11-15-2005
A bit of perspective..

And that's the reason for this column: to lend a contrarian perspective to a world besotted with technology and all its bright, glittery appeal. This is not , as some of my colleagues have characterized it, an "anti-technology" column. I'm not, strictly speaking, anti-technology. I just don't treat it...

Posted to Abstract Deviance (Weblog) by craig on 10-14-2005
Results-oriented UI

I was really impressed with the new user interface paradigm that I've seen in demo's of Microsoft's Office 12 1 recently, and I happened upon a short article 2 by Jakob Nielsen, the “ usability guru“ . Basically his argument is that the Mac-style WYSIWYG user interface paradigm has reached...

Posted to Abstract Deviance (Weblog) by craig on 10-11-2005
Windows Workflow Foundation Walkthrough

Just in case I'm not the only complete git who wasn't quite sure what the deal was with Windows Workflow Foundation , here's a pretty good developer walkthrough which did a good job of filling me in.

Posted to Abstract Deviance (Weblog) by craig on 09-19-2005
I feel Sparkly

I'm busy watching the Channel9 video introducing Sparkle . Holy crap, I can't wait to get my hands on Avalon. Sorry, Windows Presentation Foundation... who came up with that name anyway? Microsoft should dunk all their marketing people in seal innards and feed them to polar bears.

Posted to Abstract Deviance (Weblog) by craig on 09-16-2005
LINQ; not missing, but missed.

So I've just come across the LINQ project, which for out-of-the-loop losers like me is .NET Language Integrated Query , seems to be getting mentioned on blogs all over the place, and has just been previewed for the first time at the PDC. So not wanting to look like the only wildebeest at the waterhole...

Posted to Abstract Deviance (Weblog) by craig on 09-15-2005
Highlights

Wow, it’s been ages since I posted anything here. I figured it might be worth typing out a brief update before I hit the sack, so here’re a few things that have happened since my last post. Surprisingly, they’re all good. 1. I went to my first two SA Developer meetings. The first one...

Posted to Abstract Deviance (Weblog) by craig on 09-15-2005
Here be dragons (hopefully)

I haven’t done much more on the IsoEngine this week, but I thought I’d post two small screenshots as promised. I’ve been having some thoughts on the way I’m handling and managing objects in the engine, and it’s likely that I’ll be substantially reworking the way I do things before I continue any further;...

Posted to Abstract Deviance (Weblog) by craig on 07-08-2005

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