Archives » October, 2007

The DataRow/Table Connection

Having used a custom data layer for the past two years, I haven’t had to work too much with ADO.NET. Where I’m at now it’s used a bit more frequently, so I’ve gotten the chance to explore it’s idiosyncrasies a bit more. One interesting thing I noted was the connection a DataRow maintains [...]

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Management?

Well, in a way. We currently have multiple products that we are actively developing. One is in it’s infancy, one is new to the public but old to the company, and one is a bit older. The infant product is in it’s design phases and therefore requires the attention of the senior [...]

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No more “shoot first” development…

Prior to my current position, most of the development I did was of the “shoot first, ask questions later” style. In other words, people would request a feature with no detail other than “I think it should do this.” I would go off on my merry way and code the feature: design specifications [...]

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New look, same old content.

I like the simplicity of the new theme for this site. The name is WinterDay by Kristin K. Wangen. Despite the three column layout, there are three sidebar setups instead of two. The first sidebar sits atop the two other sidebars, creating some real estate for my twittering feed and side blog [...]

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Theme hunting

I have little to no desire to keep the look of this site consistent. Granted, I’ve been using my current theme for at least a year. But I’ve found some interesting new services in twitter and imified that really makes me want to add more “live” content to this blog in the form [...]

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