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 ...

Jose Fuentes writes about Lost Love. I couldn't agree more with everything he had to say! At one point in my career I thought the grandiur and financial enticement of taking a traveling consulting position would be the best position for me. Luckily before I accepted any such type of position my employer at the time needed me to travel to a ...

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 ...

I was reading on this blog about how Longhorn loves RSS. While I'm one who always likes new features. I just don't understand why Microsoft would waste their time integrating such a simple and open standard as RSS into the OS!! And yet remove a feature that would have been unique ( since Mac OS X now has Spotlight this would no longer be the ...

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 ...

We used to use an HP OfficeJet G85 (paid $500+) until it seemed as though it was jamming a lot. So we bought a cheap Lexmark X6170 (paid $200ish) and it does the same thing! Well, at least it's half the size, even if it suffers the same unbearable problem! My wife made an excellent point the other day wishing they'd go back to using the ...

Back in the day, before there was CD-RW's, there was the first prototype device that Panasonic released known as the PD-CDROM drive, featuring 650mb of rewritable optical media. I bought one for approximately $500 back then, thinking I needed the space for data backups, etc. I also nievely thought this would become a standard and the price of the ...

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 ...