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Dare Obasanjo had an interesting post yesterday on the Second System Effect in software development. For those who are unaware, the second system effect is a term first coined by Frederick Brooks in The Mythical Man Month. It deals with (in general) the idea that the second system designed/implemented by anyone is typically over-architected, with ...

I have recently had the opportunity to work (once again) with Oracle. Specifically, I had to create a mechanism that would, based on configurable settings, update either a SQL Server or an Oracle database. In and of itself, this is not particularly challenging. Not since ADO.NET implemented a provider model using the Db... classes that are part of ...

Recently, a question regarding the cost associated with migrating from VB6 to VB.NET was asked by one of our clients. Since that is a question whose answer has a broader appeal than just to the asker, I thought I would replicate my response here. It should be stated up front, however, that I don't normally recommend a migration from VB6 to .NET. ...

Business has been booming of late at ObjectSharp. Don't know whether it's the weather or the business cycle, but our recent company barbeque had more new faces that I've seen in many years. And we haven't lost any of the old faces either. And yet it doesn't seem to end. At the moment, we're looking to add some consultants to our team. ...

As I mentioned earlier, I was at the Visual Studio/SQL Server/BizTalk product launch in Ottawa yesterday. I was lucky enough to be included I love getting a chance to talk to people who are just getting into .NET 2.0. I have been working with it on a daily basis for more than 6 months, to the point where I almost forget whas VS 2003 is like. ...

The rumours have been swirling. Now the truth is out. On Sat. Jan 14, there will be a Toronto Code Camp. You can register/find more infomation/hang out at http://www.torontocodecamp.com/ If you're a developer looking for in-depth content from the people who know (that would be other developers), then the code camp is the place to be. If you're a ...

When you create an ASP.NET page using Visual Studio .NET, the default processing model is to use code-behind (the basics of which I described here). One of the more interesting aspects of code-behind is that you can specify the code for the code-behind assembly using two different techniques.  The first, and most commonly used is to ...

Almost from it’s beginning, HTML has been a mixture of data, display and logic.  While the original static pages might have only combined data and display, once scripting was introduced the three disciplines have lived together uncomfortably.  ASP only made this situation worse by introducing a different location (the server) where the ...

If you're at all interested in using VSTS in your company, the announcement of the pricing for Team Systems was probably quite disturbing.  More so if the number of developers on your team numbered in the single digits.  Fortunately, Microsoft listened to the feedback (some might call it backlash, but that's just semantics).  Here ...

Just to let everyone know, I have posted a new article on techniques that can be used to optimize the downloading of large files in ASP.NET.  It discusses some of the architectural issues that impact download speed if you need to push multi-megabyte files to a browser client. If you're interested, you can find it here.  As always, ...