LINQ is great, up to the point when it's not.  Then it's really not great at all.  When we trade simplicity of syntax for performance, we have to keep in mind there may come a point when we have to go back the code and factor out the shiny new toys. My system is complex, but this task...

Some of you may be wondering about the status of Caliburn.  I'm presently working on the new version and am having great success making it compatible with both WPF and Silverlight.  It hasn't been easy, but it is going to work.  There's a lot of under-the-hood improvements...

One thing I'm hearing from a lot of people who attended CodeStock last Saturday is how well the open spaces "track" was.  This is one area I can't take any credit for, my only role in planning open spaces was requesting a room from the college; all credit for success goes to Alan...

Troy mentioned in a comment on my previous post on ASP.NET MVC and Agile that I must be in a rare company, or I must be a lucky or persuasive man. There is certainly an aspect of truth to both those observations. It is certainly nothing out of the ordinary for me to be brought into projects that are...

I recently got brought on board to a new client where, true to form, a project was in a state of failure - everybody sort of knew it, but nobody would say it out loud. What Was Going Wrong? After my initial assessment, I made a quick decision that the major thing holding everyone back was an early decision...

We are adding a new contributor to Devlicio.us . Join me and welcome Tim Barcz and his blog posts to our site. Tim will be another Midwest blogger, reporting from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is the president of the CRIneta and always involved with the local and global .NET community. I've met Tim at the...

I hate seeing code mixed with markup. Seeing a template page with <% if(show) { %> makes me want to claw my eyes out.  Seeing String htmlTitle = "<h1>" + title + "</h1>" causes me to vomit up a little something in my throat. Mixing code with markup is not a...

I've blogged previously about inconsistencies between SL 2 Beta 1 and WPF. In my previous post I mentioned a few critical things that I felt would make it hard for WPF developers to move code between the two platforms. Most of my complaints were not addressed in the updated Beta 2 of Silverlight...

A few days ago I posted a question to the community, looking for a definition of the ASP.NET MVC framework that didn't depend upon faults in ASP.NET WebForms - after all, faults can be fixed.  I also do not like the implication that ASP.NET MVC is for those looking to use the MVC pattern, as...

There is a bit of turbulence in the ASP.NET airspace over MVC (yes, I'm making this post while on the fight back from the ASPInsiders Summit).  Even among the ASPInsiders, who are supposed to be at the cutting edge of ASP.NET, there is little agreement over what is MVC and what it's for...