ASP.NET Resources

July 2009

Recipe: An ASP.NET Roast

Next time you invite your buddies to a cookout, how about making something special? May I suggest a roast recipe?

7/23/2009 |

After years of being a business (co)owner and a “W2 consultant,” I’ve decided to put all my expertise to good use and go the route of independent consulting. It has taken months and months of research: reading, talking to fellow-consultants, reflecting, visiting an accountant, etc—to finally incorporate and get going. Hence the somewhat slow blogging.

7/16/2009 |

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Wean Yourselves off View State From the Start

Whenever I start a new project these days, I head straight to web.config and do this:

7/10/2009 |

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Weather.com Broke Something

It seems weather.com has broken the cardinal rule of never, ever, ever changing an interface exposed to the public.

7/7/2009 |

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Delta, Go and See For Yourself

One of the key ingredients in Toyota’s not-so-secret Toyota Production System sauce is Genchi Genbutsu, which literally means “go and see for yourself” (not to be confused with the philosophy of “go f*** yourself” wildly popular in New York). I hereby nominate Delta’s terminal #3 for the worst terminal at the JFK Airport. That filth hole can be easily fixed… if only Delta went a saw their own mess for themselves.

7/4/2009 |

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Public Enemies: Great Story, Sucky Implementation

Having seen—and greatly enjoyed—The Road to Perdition and The Assassination of Jesse James, I was eagerly waiting for Public Enemies to open in movie theaters… only to be sorely disappointed.