Took the SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development and Maintainance beta exam today (exam 71-448 which will eventually become 70-448 when it goes live) and here are some of my thoughts More...
I have some short notes to make and it might not be blogworthy so having them on this page instead :) Will add to this from time to time. More...
Just like to share about dimdim.com. Nopz, this is not a social networking site like friendster or myspace, nor a paid blogging site, ad site or a multilevel marketing site where i'd convince you to sign for me to get a referral fee :)
Dimdim.com is a web conferencing/meeting service/platform similar to the popular WebEx or GotoMeeting. The only catch is it's for FREE. Yes you read it right. For Free. More...
A good way to start a day. Just got an email regarding another latest addition to my cert list. Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist : .NET Framework 3.5 ADO.NET Applications More...
I just got off from taking exam 71-432: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance - which will become 70-432 when it goes live and is the successor of 70-431 (for SQL 2005)and here are just a few thoughts More...
Despite seeing my site being down due to "cannot connect to SQL server" error it was getting for some hours (courtesy of GoDaddy - again not recommended for production), I just received the good news today. I passed MCTS .NET Framework 3.5 - ASP.NET Applications More...
If you don't code generate your DAL or use OR/M or anything that would
make you worry less about DataAccess like LINQtoSQL, Entity Framework, NHibernate, Castle
ActiveRecord then you should definitely give SubSonic a shot.
On the side I'm currently working on a C# version of Extended Club Starter Kit Version 3 Beta 1 for one club that I was part of in college (and probably a few others) and one thing to note is that the project has opted to use SubSonic. It's an open source project developed by Rob Connery and a few other popular developers in the .NET. It simplifies generation of Data Access code and some utility functions common to development. And don't forget about the cool Scaffolding support. As I've heard this is one of the popular features of the Rails framework where pages are generated on the fly to serve as you're admin tool for add/edit operations against your database table. They could be considered your admin pages or at least help during development. Bottom line is, all these features will save your time (which is what SubSonic aims for). More...