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Real World Dojo part 5: Custom Components

Introduction It turns out that the file upload piece from last time (the User Feedback article) is going to be used over and over. And that I need to attach a drop-down to let the uploader specify what kind of license is associated with the file. In the dot net world, I'd be tempted to slap the code...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-28-2008
Real World Dojo part Four: User Feedback

So now we have a simple form that uses AJAX to upload a file and submits some metadata for the server to associate with that file. It doesn't really give any useful feedback, though. No real end-user's going to read the console, I'm not actually doing anything with the file upload progress...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-23-2008
Real World Dojo part Three: AJAX

When we finished up last time, we had an AJAX-ified form that uploads an image file . The problem now is that the "metadata" (the name and URL) are being completely ignored. It's ugly, but try adding them as GET variables to the upload path: It seems like I should just be able to update...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-23-2008
Real World Dojo part Two: File Upload

In my last post, I wrote about my research into doing client-side validation with Dojo (disclaimer, in case you haven't seen this a billion times before: this can never be trusted server-side...this is only a convenience for the client, not a security thing). There's a long story in that post...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-15-2008
Real World Dojo part One: Form Validation

Real World Dojo, part One (Basic Validation) The Scenario: I’ve kind of been nibbling around the edges of Dojo for a while, but I’m at a place in this project where I really need to buckle down and learn it. Since I’m having so much trouble finding real-life examples of the basics, I figured I’d share...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 10-14-2008
VB.NET vs C#

If you're familiar with a wide variety of programming languages/environments, C# and vb.net look like pretty much the same language. C# looks a little lower level, a little grittier, because it uses brackets instead of begin/end (or whatever vb.net uses). It does tend to get new language features...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 08-03-2008
Linq to SQL Designer Weirdness

The Linq to SQL designer that's built into Visual Studio 2008 is pretty, and a huge improvement over what Microsoft's provided before, in terms of data modelling. I haven't used enough other OR/M's to really have an opinion about how it measures up to other products. But it does have...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 06-24-2008
Linq to SQL with multiple databases

I think I've mentioned that I'm working on a project that dips its fingers into databases all over the place. Its main goal is to eliminate all the systems we have around that are also doing this. If it has to be done at all (and, really, it does), it should only happen once. One of the biggest...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 06-18-2008
First Impressions of Web2py

It kicks ass. There's a video that demonstrates web2py and Google appengine that pretty much says it all. If you're like me, and you'd rather read a set of step-by-step instructions than watch a video, this is for you. (OK, this is actually for me when I start a new project 6 months down...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 05-13-2008
Linq to SQL and linked tables

There are several articles about how to do this, but none of them seem to reflect the kind of situations we encounter in the real world. They all seem to revolve around the same tables in the Adventure Works database, and they give you glimpses of "What" rather than "How." Oh, and...

Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 04-07-2008

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