Creating an ItemDataBound Event Delegate for a Nested Repeater(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 6 months ago

Today I needed to create a nested grid using repeaters. Pretty common but always a pain in the ass with all Microsoft controls. I needed to nest my repeaters just like you’d nest any other control like the DataGrid or GridView. The issue came up for me when I wanted to create a delegate for my nested repeater (repeater inside my parent). Since a nested control within a control (the nested repeater in this case) is not available at the page level, Intellisense or the compiler will not know that it exists. Because it’s nested inside a parent, it becomes pat of that parent’s collection of objects. read more...

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Initial Server 2008 Pains – Infamous UAC(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 6 months ago

Remember to do one of two things if using Server 2008 for the first ti read more...

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I can’t use Mozilla on Some Microsoft Sites?(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

I can’t believe Microsoft would not let me browse some sites like today, such as when I was checking out the Microsoft Partner Site using Mozilla. I got this very strange error today while trying to look at the Microsoft Gold Partner site just for kicks to see what was on there lately: Problem Encountered read more...

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Microsoft Gold Partner Program as a General Selling Point is a Complet(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

I don’t know how many shops I’ve seen, interviewed with, or even worked at that wave the “We’re a Microsoft Gold Partner” geek flag waved around as if without knowing the place, we automatically are supposed to assume the shop is a credible development shop. Most of these are waved by non-technical managers that know nothing about quality code. This means nothing to me in terms of credibility & quality, and it’s clearly just a marketing term that only benefits Microsoft and somehow makes employers think they should be proud that they are a Gold Partner. It’s like giving an office worker a Certificate because they passed the HTML For Dummies course to hang on their cubes at work. read more...

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N-Layered != N-Tiered: Know the Difference!(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

I hear a LOT of developers refer to what are essentially N-Layers as “N-Tiers”. This kind of bugs me a little when I see or hear it from developers. First of all, they are not even close the same thing, and it’s important as a developer to get this straight so that you are using the terminology properly. The difference is simple but very important when you’re talking about your applications. They should not be loose terms and intermingled as about probably 90% of the developers out there that I’ve worked with seem to do. read more...

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Code Zest Top Developer Coffee Goodies(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

We all know that for most of us who like coffee, it plays a huge part in a developer’s life. For me, it started with the fact that when working for Vitria Technology back in the day, we had a commercial espresso machine in our cafeteria. This is where I learned what espresso is, and what good coffee really is. From then on, I have become a coffee enthusiast and want to have fun and pass coffee information along in this blog when I have some good things to share. There is a difference between so-so coffee and very GOOD coffee. But if you have never really looked into it, you may not know about it. Hopefully I can help make your coffee experience more fun while you code. I’m starting with just a post with some very good links below. read more...

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Red Flag #1: Source Code Continually Does Not Compile in Source Contro(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

I’m going to post a series of what I call “Red Flags” in development shops. Things that in some development shops happen frequently & also encompass one or more of the following below: 1) Destruct an overall development shop’s efficiency 2) Produce a team environment with unnecessary stress 3) Happen due to lack of standards/process and expectations 4) Happen as the result of bad management, bad attitudes, lack of professionalism, lack of ethics, or just bad business practice altogether read more...

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“Web 2.0” – A Lame Marketing Term That Means Absolutely Nothing!(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

I always love it when you get a cheesy executive/manager who really stretches & attempts to sound technical but fails badly by using the term “Web 2.0”. First off, this term means absolutely nothing specific. I once had a non-technical CIO tell me that “JavaScript based Web Services are what Web 2.0 is all about”. Right then and there I knew he was really reaching for the stars to sound Savvy or technical, but in reality it really comes off pretty cheesy to a developer. read more...

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Development Tools I Use & Recommend(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 7 months ago

Eventually I will get to some technical code Posts. But for now, I'm a bit delayed with some other things at work lately. I will be blogging about Code Generation, OOP, and other topics very soon though. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of tools I regularly use now or have used in the past as a C# / ASP.NET Engineer listed below: read more...

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Interview Questions Every Developer should ask an Employer(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 8 months ago

If you're like me and have been in the IT industry for 5+ years (me 10), you start to realize that the grass is not always greener on the other side in a lot of shops out there. Before I get to the interview questions, I want to start by outlining the general types of shops and types of problems one can encounter in development shops. Characteristics of when the grass may NOT be greener: read more...

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Happy & Effective Development Teams: with Truly Open Feedback Sessions(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 8 months ago

find it astounding how many development shops (from talking to many people over the years including my own experiences) frustrate the hell out of its own very motivated developers and push very good developers away literally. Pushing them away because a manager or set of managers are too stubborn and fail often to truly listen to the very people who they have hired to "do a great job" and to "give advice on what can be improved in order to benefit the business". Or maybe a manager has talked the talked but not walked the walk with their developers giving them a false sense that change can happen o read more...

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Using Fiddler with Firefox for Local Web site Testing Easily with Foxy(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 8 months ago

Fiddler is one of the best tools to analyze web requests sent from a web site and much more. Normally, using Fiddler with FireFox is a huge pain and typically does not work well out of the box when testing localhost requests or any requests for that matter with Fiddler through Firefox. But by using FoxyProxy which is just a nice plug-in to FireFox, it allows you to setup different proxies in FireFox very easily, and you can then hook into Fiddler's proxy quickly, and start to catch requests over the wire when testing local web applicatio read more...

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When Fellow Developers Tell You "I don't remember/know" and they -Do- (codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years, 8 months ago

I always love it when a fellow developer tells you at times he/she "doesn't recall" or "doesn't know" when you ask them a question (after doing your own research) based on something they clearly have done in the past (which is why you are asking them in the first place). Maybe that person you are asking mentioned it to the team or you in the past that they have done something like that, or you actually see it in use on their own web site. Whatever the case may be, you know that they DO know something about it, and that they are just being lazy or difficult. read more...

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