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Group site for Tulsa area .NETdevelopers, with blogs dealing with (usually) .NET, SharePoint, and other Microsoft products, as well as some discussion of general programming related concepts.
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  • 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

  • Net Neutrality

    Net Neutrality advocates tell us that, if ISPs are allowed to pick and choose what kind of bandwidth they throttle the most, they'll, of course, discriminate against their competitors. Being the giant, evil, corrupt corporations they are (this is Microsoft and Google talking, BTW), they can't...
    Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 07-21-2008

  • 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

  • Initial Thoughts on Google App Engine

    If you haven't heard of Google App Engine by now, you've probably been living under a rock. I won't try to explain it, or even include any links. Go check out what google has to say about it: it's intriguing, at the very worst. It's really the first step toward the distributed web...
    Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 05-08-2008

  • Empty try/catch blocks

    I've seen several people do this, and it's always been a big clue to me that they're very new and inexperienced with .net. There are a few variations. try { blah; } catch {} That's probably the absolute worst. Your exception disappears completely, and no one ever knows it happened. I'm...
    Posted to Not Necessarily Dot Net (Weblog) by JamesAshley on 02-06-2008
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