Seems like a silly question but it can't be just a really good programmer. It can't be just someone who knows what a service layer and generic repository pattern or GOF patterns can it? If your an Architect does that also mean you know something about the code, the infrastructure, Deployment too? Do you take into account testability? Or is an architect just someone who knows good SOLID coding practices and such?
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Tad McClellan
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Coming HomeIn 2010, my job turned me into a manager and I haven't coded since. I'm trying to get back into it. I was doing ASP.Net web forms in VB. I know a ton has changed since. I've been looking at MVC in C# to get back into it. Any ideas on what else to learn?
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Why Linq to SQL?Just getting back into some of the newer stuff from MS. I can't figure out why LINQ to SQL exists. I always thought query's should run in the DB in stored procs and not be in code. Essentually LINQ to SQL is a hard coded SQL Query. I thought this was bad form. What am I missing?
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Why does Microsoft do this to meSo each version of Silverlight that comes out I take a look and see how the technology is progressing. I finally got to SL4. This may be user error but I'm really frustrated with the data access. I first tried POCO, using my own objects from the server. Got those passed through WCF and bound but then you can't use the DataAnnotations (I like the ID of having the validations for the data where the data lives in the class) when you bind on the client. Then I went to the WFC Data Service model using MVVM. Looked good but then guess what, same issue. Lastly I went to RIA but couldn't figure out how to add an object on the client. Evidently MS didn't build my Insert function on the Domain Service. So I went to go look for myself. So many generated functions with odd attributes my eyes hurt. I’ve looked at videos which all simply just edit objects but don’t add anything. But if they would I can get the DataAnnotations working with RIA but I have to do this kludgy Metadata object. So is there a better way or am I doing something wrong? I hate MS generated black boxes because they tend not to work for real applications and then when something does go bump in them you spend hours on google researching only to find out you are so in bed with them you have to wait till next release to get it fixed. I’m just about to create my own Data layer architecture for working with SL but before I do I thought I would do a sanity check with the guru’s. What did I miss? Is there a better way?
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Stupid Idea of the daySo I won't say who exactly so as to protect the stupid... I was presented with a problem of how to load test a network connection in China. The suggested solution was to hire 30 people to sit in a room and hit enter all day long on a URL. Not kidding you! I told them if they would instead just set up a machine and let me remote into it and set up a load test with VS2008, that would be a better if not cheaper option. Its stuff like that that makes this profession fun. Still, sounds like something that would happen to Dilbert in Elbonia.
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Home/Work ParadoxI've been working at home all week supporting a release we are doing in China staying up till 3 AM and then working all day. I now feel like a caged monkey. Its been fun being around the family and my wife is really good about keeping the place quite so I can think. But I've got to get out of here.
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Spell checking a web site?Most 3rd party control makers have one to buy.
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Unicode testingNo thank God!
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Unicode testingJust unicode. The point is that If Chinese works then English will work. Thats what happens when non-techinical people start making decisions about the technology.
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Unicode testingThats the French for you...:-)
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Unicode testingSo I just got out of a meeting where the testers said it would take longer to test the product because they needed to test it once with English and once with Chinese characters to make sure it was unicode compliant. When I told them that if they just test it with Chinese they should be fine. They objected to that idea because then how would you know it works for English!!! Then someone had the bright idea that well maybe we need to test for more then one language to make sure its unicode so lets through Japanese and Korean in the mix. Seriously I feel like I'm stuck in a Dilbert cartoon.
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PLEASE HELP UREGENTZ!!! (VisualSVN problems)Wow. What a nightmare!
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Code Project Wins Visual Systems Journal Award (again)They should start calling this award the codeproject.com award. Congrats CP!
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To WAR!!!Time to invade Canada! It's official! They have sent their geese to attack our airplanes! http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/12/hudson.plane.geese/index.html[^]
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Linq + SQLMetal = Cool...I'm working on a linq project now. Trust me, the time you save by having MS do your data access code seem very small compared to the time you spend screaming at your IDE when something doesn't work and you have no idea as to why or what is wrong. I hate programming against a black box.
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Americans Crap at Spelling! [modified]Yeah, At times. Hell hath no furry like an English major scorned
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Americans Crap at Spelling! [modified]I am the walking embodiment of this. I can't spell for s!@#. We wife, however, would wipe the floor with just about anyone when it comes to spelling.
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Well that's £2M well spent:-)
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Well that's £2M well spentYeah, sounds like the stimulus package we are doing in the US. I'm sure their is a giant horse in there somewhere.
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Silverlight in Enterprise AppRead this after my reply... Completly agree though.