The Gryphin Experience

Every good developer knows never to re-invent the wheel, especially if there is software out there that has been tested by others, and has an established track record. As a developer using the .NET framework I’ve found some of these libraries invaluable, so I’m sharing them for some of the other dev’s out there with a brief outline of how to use.

Key Points discussed in this article are : 1. Include SET NOCOUNT ON statement 2. Use schema name with object name 3. Do not use the prefix “sp_” in the stored procedure name 4. Use IF EXISTS (SELECT 1) instead of (SELECT *) 5. Try to avoid using SQL Server cursors whenever possible 6. Keep the Transaction as short as possible 7. Use TRY-Catch for error handling

Firefox is the browser of choice for most designers and developers in part because of the vast selection of add ons that are available. While Chrome does not offer anywhere close to as many extensions (yet), there are still a number that can be very handy for designers and developers. In some cases they are not as robust as the Firefox versions (example, Firebug and Firebug Lite), but if you are using Chrome you may be interested to know about the extensions that are available. Additionally, Chrome comes with some developer tools built in.

In this post we’ll feature 17 of the most useful Chrome extensions for designers and developers. Hopefully in time the selection and quality of Chrome extensions will be able to rival those of Firefox.

This blog post covers some of the validation improvements coming with ASP.NET MVC 2.

During our everyday programming tasks we run into several repetitive code blocks that after the 20th time you implement them become really annoying. The worst case is to re-implement these code blocks every time, and the better case is to create a central class library with helper classes and methods. However, a large amount of these tasks can be achieved easily with built-in .NET methods.

C# 4.0 biedt nieuwe mogelijkheden die het de ontwikkelaar in een dynamische omgeving makkelijker maken. Dynamic programming is het sleutelwoord en stelt de C# ontwikkelaar in staat om eenvoudiger samen te werken met dynamische talen zoals IronPython en IronRuby. Naast dit dynamic programming kent deze versie van C# optionele en benoemde parameters, betere integratie met COM. Andere vernieuwingen in C# 4.0 richten zich op multicore en declarative programming. In dit artikel wordt met name de features van dynamic programming onder de loep genomen en zie je hoe ze in de praktijk kunnen worden toegepast.

The new .NET Framework 4.0 poster in deepzoom.