October 2003 - Posts

IsNumeric Best Practices

Needing to find out what the best why to implement the IsNumeric function in C# is, I went on a brief tour of the Internet today. My result is a very informative article by J. Ambrose Little that benchmarks six (count 'em, six) different techniques. The Read More...

Phantom Properties

Yet one more interesting Web Service problem reared its head today. The situation is as follows: The result of a call to a Web Service method is supposed to be a class. The class contains the elements that, basically, make up a record in a database table. Read More...

Interoperating with WebSphere

I just had the joy of spending a day trying to get my .NET Web Service to interact with a WebSphere client. Regardless of the changes made, the following error was received on the Java side. Unable to retrieve PropertyDescriptor for property Xxx All of Read More...

Getting Started

Since this is the first entry in my first weblog, I feel the need to describe what readers (or potential subscribers) can expect. First, my background is an interesting combination of technical and marketing. I have spent most of the last twenty years Read More...