WordCount
WordCount [http://www.fabrica.it/wordcount/main.php] is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality.…
Refactoring Patterns with Examples
27 Refactoring Patterns with Examples [http://www.industriallogic.com/xp/refactoring/catalog.html]. [via Roy Osherove [http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/07/23/191773.aspx]]…
Better, Faster, Lighter Programming in .NET
How you can write Better, Faster, Lighter, .NET and Java code [http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/07/14/BFLJava.html]. Must read!…
Exporting data to a XML file in SQL Server 2005
Exporting data to a XML file in SQL Server 2005 [http://www.sqldbatips.com/showarticle.asp?ID=23] using a VB.NET stored procedure (now that SQL Server supports the new CLR integration). Must read!…
SQL Express Beta 2
SQL Express Beta 2 is coming soon [http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlexpress] and the Internet Explorer Team blog [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2004/07/21/190747.aspx] is buzzing. Talking of SQL Express, here are the Top 10 Cool Things about SQL Server 2005 Express Edition [http://lab.…
SqlHtml ... no please don't!
SqlHtml [http://thedailywtf.com/archive/2004/07/22/649.aspx] is an interesting but (IMHO) highly inefficient idea (a parody I assume) of generating HTML directly from the database tier. But the worrying part is that many “developers” still use crude methods like these while developing “enterprise level” applications. Its…
C# Class Generator
C# Class Generator [http://www.csharpfriends.com/demos/csharp_class_generator.aspx], a web tool to generate a complete C# class along with the supporting database access layer methods.…
Client Event Callback
Client Event Callback Manager in Whidbey [http://dotnetdrives.blogdrive.com/archive/2.html]. Saurabh Verma [http://dotnetdrives.blogdrive.com/], from the .NET user group in New Delhi [http://groups.msn.com/DOTNETSIG/], writes “I tried the Client Event Callback in Whidbey. I ended by developing a chat application with mere…