Monthly Archives: December 2008

re: The Normal Forms of Database Normalization

@sachin kapoor: You might want to take a look at a post I made about Normalising the data model

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Statistics for 2008

It’s the end of the year and as it typical it is time to reflect over the past year. So with that in mind, what are the scores on the doors for my blog? (Stats are from 1st Jan 2008) … Continue reading

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ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview – A review

I’ve just finished reading Steven Sanderson’s book ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview published by APress. While the book was short I felt it did give me a bit of an introduction to ASP.NET MVC. Although I have to admit that I … Continue reading

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Some advice on CVs

As a lead developer part of my job is to review CVs for developers that we are potentially going to hire. There are, however, some people that I think do put the most inappropriate things on their CV. I’m not … Continue reading

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New article on Code Project: Data Visualisation with Virtual Earth ASP.NET Controls

It has taken a while, but I finally got around to putting another article up on Code Project. The article is based on a series of blog posts (Finding things with Virtual Earth, Using PushPins with the Virtual Earth ASP.NET … Continue reading

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So few posts…

It occured to me today as I was driving up the road from the Black Marble event on Software Architecture that the number of posts on my blog has gone down recently. I was thinking about what happened. When I … Continue reading

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Formatting dates the hard way

I was doing a bit of a code review and I spotted this in the code base. string[] splitOptions = new string[1] { dayEarlier.Date.Year.ToString() }; string[] earlyDates = dayEarlier.Date.GetDateTimeFormats(); string[] earlySplit = earlyDates[67].Split(splitOptions, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries); earlySplit[0] = earlySplit[0].Replace(“,”, string.Empty); Essentially the … Continue reading

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