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To use Stored Procedures or not.

A while ago, Frans wrote Stored Procedures are Bad, M'Kay . None other than Adam Machanic chimed in, arguing essentially the opposite . The always insightful Anatoly Lubarsky gives his take on it and well, my head is spinning. I was Mr. Stored Procedure until Frans schooled me on it. I still like them...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Wed, Jun 14 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques
Where's the Extra Connection String Coming From?

One of the issues I came across when writing my new book was with ConnectionStrings. Examine the following configuration section: <connectionStrings> <add name="AdventureWorksString" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=db; Integrated Security...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Tue, Jun 13 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques
7 Deadly Sins of Software Development

Frans blogged about Jon Skeet's which was inspired by Eric's post. Since Eric is asking others to contribute, I'm throwing in my two cents. #1 Not understanding the problem that you're trying to solve Personal guilt rating: historically 7, currently 3 I've seen (and commited) this sin more than just...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Tue, Jun 13 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Me, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling
Pablo Castro on ADO.NET 3.0

I'm bummed that I couldn't make it to Tech Ed, Sahil is presenting and everyone I know is up there. Anyway, i've been reading Kent Tegels liveblog of Pablo Castro's ADO.NET 3.0 presentation report on ADO.NET 3.0 and am green with envy. Pablo is one of the baddest gurus out there. He knows his stuff inside...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Mon, Jun 12 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques
Learn ADO.NET from the Best

Well, saying someone is 'the best' is a pretty big statement, but one thing is certain, any discussion of 'the greatest talent in ADO.NET' will have Sahil's name featured prominently. Just look at what his people who read his book say! Anyway, if you're interested in learning from him, 'da man', read...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Tue, Jun 6 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques
Floating Points Revisited

For some reason I can't find the post, but a while ago, my friend Andy Canfield posted a pretty interesting piece about why he can't use .NET. It all came down to floating points and lack of precision. Greg is making a somewhat similar argument and it's a very interesting read. Very interesting debate...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Mon, Jun 5 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Coding Techniques
Regular Expression Recipes for Windows Developers: A Problem-Solution Approach (A Problem-Solution Approach)

My buddy Brian Davis is probably one of the most kick a55 regex gurus I've ever come across. That's created a little bit of a problem b/c whenever I need a regex, even a really complex one, he can usually whip it up in his head faster than I can describe it to him. At work, we do a tremendous amount...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sun, Apr 16 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Books, .NET General, Coding Techniques
Question about Unit Testing

I got on a little late when it comes to unit testing, but I'm definitely sold on it. However I came across something unexpected the other day and it threw me for a loop. I'm curious to see how other people handle the issue. In the past, I basically wrote tests to validate every public method and property...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sat, Dec 10 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Coding Techniques
'Undocumentation'

My Homie Jason Burton from TiBA just shot me this jewel on 'real' documentation . Everyone needs to read that memo.

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Thu, Nov 24 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Life in General, Me, Coding Techniques
If you want to prove you're a real programmer

Benchmarking things like this and this is definitely one way to do it. I shouldn't be surprised though, Roland has been rolling in cool posts and projects recently.

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Mon, Nov 7 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Remoting, .NET General, Coding Techniques
How do you handle Session variables?

One of my many pet peeves is working with Session variables that are treated as Strings. For instance, when I see something like this: tbFirstName.Text = Session[”FirstName”].ToString(); Why? Well, because a typical application has zillions of Session variables and using this methodology...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sun, Nov 6 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Coding Techniques
Another Blast of Cold Water in the face - "The Build Master" by Vincent Maraia

Eric Garulay, one of the uber cool folks over at Addison-Wesley shot me a copy of The Build Master Microsoft's Software Configuration Management Best Practices by Vincent Maraia ( Build Master Web Site ) . Well, looks like Kim is going to appropriate the book from me so I need to hurry up and get it...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sun, Oct 23 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Me, Coding Techniques
Web Services + Computer * x = Justice for spammers

I was hesitant to post this, but I've frigging had it. A few months back I started using a Skin that didn't have the CAPTCHA b/c I got so many complaints about it. All in all, things have been pretty good w/ respect to blog spam. However in the past few days, the sh1t has hit the fan. I remember a few...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Thu, Oct 13 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Life in General, Me, Coding Techniques
DataTable.GetService() ??

I've looked around google quite a bit and am trying to figure out where I'd use this. can't seem to find any examples. Has anyone used GetService()? Is it just part of an interface/base class and that's why it's here or is there a specific problem it solves? If it solves something, can you tip me off...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sun, Aug 21 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Coding Techniques
2.0 Framwork Enhancements on System.XML - And misc ramblings

For the past few weeks, I've been upskilling as the lower cased one calls it. I'm also to get back into the groove at the newsgroups and about the only thing I'm slacking on is support over at my beloved Devbuzz which I'll be getting back into this weekend. Stuff I've been working on mainly consists...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Fri, Aug 19 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques
Overriding ToString()

I had mentioned reading Effective C#, 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# back a few posts ago . So I decided to show off a few of the techniques there as well as some new C# features and began with this post. . Anyway, when I started writing out the examples, I kept adding new things and it started...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sun, Jul 31 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Humor, .NET General, Coding Techniques
OOP, Generics and a little Humor

Well, I decided to show a few examples with a little humor. I know a few of you thought my “Shocker” post was in poor taste, and I apologize if you did, but obviously many people liked it. Anyway, I'm gonig to show a few examples of how to make a class better, and better and better, and use...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Mon, Jul 25 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques
Sql Injection Ad Naseaum

A while ago Scott had a great post about demo code . So I was reading up on The Bleeding Edge, Never Been Done Before Technology Known As Ajax and started surfing around a little b/c I wanted to get in on the mocumentary action. So I come across Peter's where he warns you not to believe the hype. Peter...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sat, Jul 23 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Humor, Me, Coding Techniques
One of Tobin's most brilliant moments

Tobin's latest idea on creating JAXASS is brilliant. There's some wank action going on trying to get it deleted over here but I'm all for it. Just check this out: ----------------------------------------------- This should soon be followed up by the Farcical Ubiquitous Containment (FUC) specification...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Fri, Jul 22 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques
Really cool code snippet

At the risk of embarrassing anyone, I'll be short on the specifics. But a while ago, I had written an ASP.NET app in VB.NET. The shop where I wrote it moved to C# and one of the things they did was port all of the old code from VB.NET to C#. Well, I had a routine that took in a String argument, and tried...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sun, Jul 10 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Coding Techniques

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