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Facades – damn, that’s nice!

November 11th, 2008 Paul No comments

Lately all coolest things are being done online. The whole concept of on-line application is a pretty revolutionary idea. You only have to maintain ONE installation, people can access your app at all times from any machine connected to internet, if you wish, and most people would, you can really track what your users are doing with your app, both to see what needs to be improved and covertly do some data mining, I can go on forever. Read more…

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Tools we use

November 10th, 2008 Paul No comments

I had discovered ReSharper some time ago reading a blog post on more efficient ways to code. At first I was skeptical, but after installing it I became a true believer in this tool. Read more…

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LINQ to SQL – did not see this one coming

November 1st, 2008 Paul No comments

According to this blog, LINQ to SQL is going to be dropped. I have not had a chance to work with LINQ to SQL, but I am loving LINQ to XML. This is exactly what we needed to streamline most of our XML transactions. I mean XPath is good and all, but LINQ to XML makes perfect sense. I am hoping that Microsoft will reconsider this decision, as in my humble opinion the whole idea of LINQ is the best addition to the .Net framework, well, LINQ and generics.

I can’t help but feel that this might make me think twice before jumping on a new technologies especially from Microsoft. Now, on to reading .Net 4.0 specs.

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