http://www.dzone.com/links/users/links/283653.html DZone: fresh links for developers en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:43:11 GMT The DZone community 2008-08-22T04:43:11Z en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. http://www.dzone.com/links/feed/user/283653/rss.xml http://www.dzone.com/images/std/dzone.com_258x55.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/ http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/web_developers_you_suck.html In order to aid in development of my own websites, I enabled JavaScript debugging in Internet Explorer a few weeks back. To my horror, I have quickly experienced what seems to be complete disregard for serving syntactically correct JavaScript on the open internet. No, I’m not just talking about a few niche websites, run by amateur programmers. I am talking about industry-leading nerd-friendly powerhouse websites that should know better. ajax javascript Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:54:23 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/95315.html vort3x 2008-07-15T21:54:23Z In order to aid in development of my own websites, I enabled JavaScript debugging in Internet Explorer a few weeks back. To my horror, I have quickly experienced what seems to be complete disregard for serving syntactically correct JavaScript on the open internet. No, I’m not just talking about a few niche websites, run by amateur programmers. I am talking about industry-leading nerd-friendly powerhouse websites that should know better.]]> 95315 2008-07-15T21:54:23Z 1 0 33 2 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/95315.jpg vort3x http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/283653.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/enum_to_friendly_string_extension_method.html We use enums quite extensively in our application as they are a great for representing integral values in a strongly typed way using symbolic names. The enum names are not very friendly to the user and I recently read a some good articles which tried to solve this problem. However, I think i've found a better solution to this problem using extension methods. .net Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:37:30 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/84722.html vort3x 2008-06-03T12:37:30Z We use enums quite extensively in our application as they are a great for representing integral values in a strongly typed way using symbolic names. The enum names are not very friendly to the user and I recently read a some good articles which tried to solve this problem. However, I think i've found a better solution to this problem using extension methods.]]> 84722 2008-06-03T12:37:30Z 2 0 11 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/84722.jpg vort3x http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/283653.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/the_linqtosql_is_a_lie.html LinqToSql is amazing! I've been working with it for the past week and loving every moment. However i've noticed somethig weird, it lies to me about the SQL it's generating. Here is my example... .net database Thu, 08 May 2008 22:37:47 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80032.html vort3x 2008-05-08T22:37:47Z LinqToSql is amazing! I've been working with it for the past week and loving every moment. However i've noticed somethig weird, it lies to me about the SQL it's generating. Here is my example...]]> 80032 2008-05-08T22:37:47Z 2 0 29 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/80032.jpg vort3x http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/283653.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/a_c_operator_i_would_like_to_see.html You could argue there are too many operators in C# as it is; however, I feel having an acute knowledge of the available operators is like knowing CTRL + B will bold the selected text in most word processing software. To put it simply, it hurts no-one, whilst providing shortcuts to advanced users... .net Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:25:37 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/78536.html vort3x 2008-04-30T13:25:37Z You could argue there are too many operators in C# as it is; however, I feel having an acute knowledge of the available operators is like knowing CTRL + B will bold the selected text in most word processing software. To put it simply, it hurts no-one, whilst providing shortcuts to advanced users...]]> 78536 2008-04-30T13:25:37Z 1 0 16 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/78536.jpg vort3x http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/283653.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/implementing_generic_caching.html I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications – and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem. .net Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:55:59 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/78062.html vort3x 2008-04-28T12:55:59Z I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications – and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem.]]> 78062 2008-04-28T12:55:59Z 2 0 31 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/78062.jpg vort3x http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/283653.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/enum_tryparse_extension_method.html TryParse method is very helpful if you need to convert string representation of a value to a value itself. TryParse is better than Parse method because it doesn’t throw any exceptions and just returns a Boolean value to indicate weather the parsing was successful. Surprisingly there is no TryParse method available to use for Enum and this is where extension method can be extremely useful. .net Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:16:07 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/77655.html vort3x 2008-04-25T14:16:07Z TryParse method is very helpful if you need to convert string representation of a value to a value itself. TryParse is better than Parse method because it doesn’t throw any exceptions and just returns a Boolean value to indicate weather the parsing was successful. Surprisingly there is no TryParse method available to use for Enum and this is where extension method can be extremely useful.]]> 77655 2008-04-25T14:16:07Z 1 0 14 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/77655.jpg vort3x http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/283653.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/to_extension_method.html Many times you find yourself having to convert the type of an object to another. The ToString() method is probably one of the most useful methods, it's great for easy conversion of objects to string, but what if you want to do it the other way round or even an int to a decimal? .net Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:15:15 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/77654.html vort3x 2008-04-25T14:15:15Z Many times you find yourself having to convert the type of an object to another. The ToString() method is probably one of the most useful methods, it's great for easy conversion of objects to string, but what if you want to do it the other way round or even an int to a decimal?]]> 77654 2008-04-25T14:15:15Z 3 0 7 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/77654.jpg vort3x http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/283653.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/select_text_or_value_from_dropdownlist_extension.html Here is a very usefull extension method that allows you to select an item from a DropDownList using the text or value of the item without needing to know the index of the item. .net Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:14:32 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/77653.html vort3x 2008-04-25T14:14:32Z Here is a very usefull extension method that allows you to select an item from a DropDownList using the text or value of the item without needing to know the index of the item.]]> 77653 2008-04-25T14:14:32Z 0 0 7 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/77653.jpg vort3x http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/283653.gif