Raymond Lewallen: http://codebetter.com/blogs/raymond.lewallenBuilding strongly-typed session objects, cache objects, and viewstate. If you aren't using a session management object you must. Do a search for session[] and make your developers give a justifiable business reason they need to use something outside of the project's session object ...

Man, there's been so much stuff going on, since my last blog! We went on vacation to Galveston Island, TX right and returned the weekend before Hurricane Rita - whew that was close! I've been trying to play catch up on home work for the Tulsa Community College Micro-Economics internet course I'm taking. The amount of home work is crazy. We've ...

Steven Smith posted this very intelligent article: Tip For Employees - Don't Stop Looking.But do take heed to his warning! Just a couple years ago I was working for a ''Manager'' who called me into his office and was very upset that I had posted my resume on Monster.com.Even after I explained to him that my resume had been on there for a long time ...

My wife just told me that PayPal has announced that starting Aug 1st they are going to stop offering the bill pay service. How retarded! Here's another area that I truely do not understand. I just read an article in Information Weekly that talked about how the banking industry is going to be adding all these new features -- check the ...

Today is my 11th wedding anniversary and one of my presents to my wife was taking the 70-300: Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures exam and passing! So now, she has certifiable proof that she's married to a geek! :) I have to say that I probably enjoyed this exam the most so far! Being a developer/coder at ...

I did better than the rest so far on this one! Probably because at least 20-25% of the content is shared, considering ADO.NET is a big part of Web App, XML Services, and Windows App development!Now to study up for Exam 70-300: Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures.From what I've heard this one is harder than the ...

Woot! Going into this test I felt very confident, but after the first few questions I was thinking holy cow! Is this the right test?? Some of the questions I hadn't seen reviewed or discussed in either the Microsoft Prep Book or ExamCram2!With this test I more liberally marked questions for review at the end. When you get to the end and realize ...

I just passed MS 070-315 - Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET and Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET! I originally had considered going for MCDBA first, but I've decided to do that after MCAD and MCSD. I give much appreciation to Microsoft for giving to the community by providing materials to the local .NET ...

I attended a training class on developing Enterprise Web Solutions with ASP.Net on 4/13/2004. The instructor was Keith Nicholson from developerLabs.net and he's also the President of the Oklahoma City .Net Users Group.The only new subjects covered, that I personally hadn't been exposed to before, were Microsoft's Content Mangement Server, Commerce ...

Yesterday, I completed and tested my first DotNetNuke 2.0.3 skin. Of course, it being my first one, it was really simple and basic. I simply added the Corporate Intranet logo and link to the header of the Default Skin. I'll be doing more soon!My 6 year old son, Kaleb, found one of my chess sets and wanted to badly play with it, but it was made of ...