Introduction What is MVC MVC stands for: Model (database) Controller (business logic) View (what you see + view logic) It is used to separate the logic from a web application and other types of applications into these 3 logical parts. There are a lot of people who think this makes development easier...
An article by Steve Yegge who I actually didn't know until he was included in a question session with some of the big names in the software industry a while back. A very good writer, anyway the article: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_27.html It makes me want to work at google...
Watch this and be blown away as well: http://www.wekeroad.com/actionpackintro.html A DAL which creates classes for Stored procedures, tables etc. And all that is needed to set it up is a * in a file. Home of this DAL layer: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=actionpack
I'm hearing some people think: Ok cool that Ruby is happening and all that but we are a DotNet Community site. Very true, but there are quite a few links to the DotNet world going on and developing at quite a nice speed. The bridges available now are: http://rubydotnet.sourceforge.net/ ( - 2003 ) http...
Microsoft says that, from now on, ActiveX control activation will require that, "when a web page uses the APPLET, EMBED, or OBJECT elements to load an ActiveX control, the control's user interface is blocked until the user activates it. If a page uses these elements to load multiple controls, each...
Interesting development going on currently surrounding MySql every ones favorite sql 92 / ACID incompliant database. MySql AB has recently transfered the license of MySql from LPGL to PGL. For those not so well informed in what the difference is: "using the Library GPL permits use of the library...
The buzzwords of the moment: Linq for the .Net world, Ruby for the open source world. Jon Udel wrote the following example for the .Net world to show of the nice things about Linq: The following snippet does a three-way join across an XML data source and two CLR objects. The XML data source is the content...