July 2006 - Posts
Back when I first started this Blog up I made a few 2006 Predictions. I was searching for a reference to something I thought I wrote back then and saw this. Well it is the eve of August and I thought I would revisted those predictions and maybe make a few more.
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Without a doubt I love ASP.NET, but with any love there are some pet peeves you just learn to accept. For me one of those has been the huge bag of the hidden ViewState element buried at the top of all of our forms. At first, I don't think we really understood the impact of this element on our web sites, I mean really it is just more bits that need to get dumped to the browser and fed back to the ASP.NET engine when the form is posted back. To me there are two things that a good programmer needs to understand that the ViewState hurts.
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This one is not my own, but a reference to a really well written thought peice on making a good product. The point is the best products can and usually are done by a small number of good people, not a lot of bad people.
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Every now and then I think it is good for us to venture back to the desktop to develop a useful Client Application. Lately I have been developing and testing a little application to read Magnetic Stripe readers through the serial port. The kind similar to what I use at the gym to sign in.
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As I am working on a Time & Attendace application this weekend I have to figure out good ways for format dates for display and calculation. For some reason date formatting and my brain do not work well together. Well it is encouraging to see Wally having the same problem with Date Formatting. He has put together a simple resource entry to help out.
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A few month's ago I was looking for an easy way to consume and produce RSS feeds. Since I hate XML these days, manually parsing this did not sound like a good idea for me, despite the great XML classes in .NET. Enter the RSSToolKit, from DMitryr.
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