So, I made it to 1 million views just for my blogs on this site in a little more than 3 years. Here are the blog stats for me as of the time of hitting the publish button Total posts: 365 Total views: 1000000 Average views per post: 2,739.73

My goal for this year is to read 50 books. At this point I have read 27 books, so I am a little ahead. I decided to tackle the Stieg Larsson trilogy as well as the Baroque Cycle trilogy. First quarter 2011 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Hiro Protagonist–hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery drive is living in the Metaverse and people start frying their brains from the designer drug called Snow Crash. Interesting book, really enjoyed the 2nd half of the book, the first part was hard to get into

Custom patterns with Resharper are cool. And can help you and your team to make your code more uniform. I know me and my team are using them ;-). The human brain works in such a way that it will filter out any information it knows or thinks it knows. You know that text without the vowls that you can read without a problem because your brain just knows what should be there. Ths s txt wtht vwls. Pretty sure you can read what I meant there. So the more you make something uniform the faster your brain will be able to skim over a certain text.

July 1, 2011. Dang. It’s a gorgeous summer morning here in Wisconsin. With the amazing first half of the year I’ve had, I’m looking forward to the second half even more. Normally, this time of the year I’d say something like, “I can’t believe how fast this year is flying by!” But this year, things are different. I’ve been busy, but I’ve taken breaks too. I’ve been able to enjoy my successes, and learn from the failures.

Yesterday Resharper 6 launched and if you are developing in Visual studio you should seriously get it. I love it and have been playing with the nightly builds and the bet, beta2, beta3, RC, RC2 for a few weeks now. I just hated that I had to install a new version nearly every single day. An auto update feature would be nice Jetbrains. Here is what’s new. JavaScript support ASP.NET MVC 3 Razor support

This is a problem I ran into recently. I have a 64-bit operating system. I’m running Excel 2010, which is 32-bit. There is also a 64-bit version. (You can get this information by going to File > Help.) I went to Programs > Administrative Tools > Data Sources (ODBC). I set up a System DSN. I tested it and it works fine. Hurray! Then I opened Excel 2010 and went to Data > From Other Sources > From Microsoft Query. The DSN isn’t there. What happened?

“Know thou language” is something Shakespeare said ages ago. Or at least he should have. Knowing your language also means you know what it is going to do without explicitly telling it to. For example. Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim p As New Hydrangea Console.ReadLine() End Sub Public Class Plant Public Sub New() Console.WriteLine("I am plant") End Sub End Class Public Class Hydrangea Inherits Plant Public Sub New() Console.WriteLine("I am hydrangea") End Sub End Class End Module Will print. I am Plant

Introduction A while ago I blogged about Clay for VB.Net and found that it didn’t really work for anonymous types in VB.Net. And I even got an explanation why it did not work. Today I got a comment on my first post saying that impromptu-interface would work in VB.Net and since it is on Nuget I would try it. Clay So this code in Clay Dim c As Object = New ClayFactory Dim plant = c.Plant(New With {.LatinName = "test"}) Console.WriteLine(plant.LatinName) Console.ReadLine()``` or this ```vbnet Dim c As Object = New ClayFactory Dim plant = c.Plant(LatinName:="test") Console.WriteLine(plant.LatinName) Console.ReadLine()``` or this ```vbnet Dim c As Object = New ClayFactory Dim plant = c.Plant().LatinName("test") Console.WriteLine(plant.LatinName) Console.ReadLine()``` And yes I tried with the newest version of clay and it still doesn’t work. ## impromptu-interface So I tried this with impromptu-interface and that just worked. Dim c As Object = Builder.New Dim plant = c.Plant(New With {.LatinName = “test”}) Console.WriteLine(plant.LatinName) Dim d As Object = Builder.New Dim plant2 = d.Plant(LatinName:=“test”) Console.WriteLine(plant2.LatinName) Dim e As Object = Builder.New Dim plant3 = e.Plant().LatinName(“test”) Console.WriteLine(plant3.LatinName) Console.ReadLine()``` So go check it out.

What is a web developer? Recently I was involved in a discussion about the skills a web developer is expected to have and how interesting it has been to watch common bad practices (like table layout and SQL injection) continue to spread. So in the nature of Denis’s What does a SQL Server developer need to know? post, I present the web developer breakdown. What Level Am I? Rather than try and attach years of experience to this scale, I’m going to present a list of major areas and skills, questions, or topics in each area. I’ve tried to capture whether I feel a skill is required to be an Intermediate or Advanced web developer.

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