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Getting Trained in an Economic Downturn

I’m sure that, for the vast majority of the readers of my blog, becoming more productive with your programming tools is a desirable goal. Not all developers go out of their way to advance their skills, but the very fact that you read blogs means that Read More...

My Book is now Available

In the excitement of PDC, it slipped my mind to let everyone know that the book on which I was a co-author was actually shipped at the beginning of October. The title is the terse, yet incredibly descriptive MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-503): Read More...

Writing is done, so back to the blogging

The two or three of you who follow my blog with regularity will have noticed that I was dark for most of the summer. The reason was that I was in the process of writing a book. Co-writing, would be more accurate, but still long hours were spent pounding Read More...

ORA-01008 Not All Variables Bound error

I have recently had the opportunity to work ( once again ) with Oracle. Specifically, I had to create a mechanism that would, based on configurable settings, update either a SQL Server or an Oracle database. In and of itself, this is not particularly Read More...

GetType on a Dynamically Loaded Assembly

The application on which I'm working has the opportunity to dynamically load and assembly. Later in the application, one of the types from the loaded assembly need be retrieved using GetType. More specifically, the GetType was performed using a fully Read More...

Looking for Mr (or Ms) GoodDeveloper

Business has been booming of late at ObjectSharp. Don't know whether it's the weather or the business cycle, but our recent company barbeque had more new faces that I've seen in many years. And we haven't lost any of the old faces either. And yet it doesn't Read More...

Distributing SOA Information

As you might have guessed from the name of my blog, I have a long-term love of distributed applications. My infatuation with the technology actually goes back to earlier forms of COM+ and Web services. I believe that a well designed distributed application Read More...

Distributed Applications Training Kit now available

Although the publication date was slipped slightly (and there was conflicting information coming from some of the vendors), the training kit for the Distributed Applications PRO certification ( 70-549 ) is now available. Of the three training kits I was Read More...

Why the Silence

Those of you who actually read my blog on a regular basis might have wondered what had happened to me. While I’ve never been a ‘post-a-day’ kind of writer, it’s rare to have two months go by without a post of any substance. Well, I do have a reason for Read More...