t the JAOO conference in Aarhus, Denmark this year, domain specific languages came up in virtually every conversation; every keynote mentioned them, a lot of sessions discussed them (including a
k, I admit it. For many, many years I hated JavaScript. I hated writing JavaScript code, and I hated the pain that goes along with dealing with different browsers using
ll applications are dependent on data in some form and most developers find themselves writing reams of data access code. The first article in this series discussed how to control
he CSLA framework, written by Rockford Lhotka, has been around for over a decade. CSLA’s purpose is to give developers a solid framework to house business logic for applications. Microsoft
very environment has them: The dreaded manual tasks that drain productivity from the team and add instability to the processes. We usually dedicate only half our brain power?and never enough
hile flying back home over the Atlantic, I thought about how much better developing for SharePoint has become after the introduction of .NET 3.5. I have repeatedly insisted that one
love to say that I hate to whine, when referring to things about Windows Vista that drive me nuts, but clearly, I don’t hate to whine. I apparently love to
hough ata binding is pervasive in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), it’s also different enough that you’ll need to rethink the way you use it in your applications. .NET 3.5 SP1,
hen you build complex UI applications, it is all too easy to end up with a messy, tightly coupled, interwoven mess that is difficult to develop and maintain; and impossible