Yesterday, I blogged that we’ve published the CodeBetter.Com FAQ.  We’ve also put together a mission statement. CodeBetter.Com Mission Statement (Mostly Happy Talk) CodeBetter.Com exists in order to help foster awareness of better practices, superior tools, proven methodologies and techniques within the software development community...

  We've recently received a lot of requests for blogging accounts here at CodeBetter.Com, which is flattering to say the least.  Unfortunately for those searching for new places to blog, we're not currently offering blogging accounts.  The biggest reason is that since we don't run any advertisements, we...

Jay has been expressing his Mass Confusion... Information overload  I'm getting all kinds of advice, but I'm not sure who to listen to at times because I really don't know who really knows what their talking about I left a comment to this post You can't be wrong on a well read blog without being told so, by people who know more than...

Jay has been expressing his Mass Confusion... Information overload  I'm getting all kinds of advice, but I'm not sure who to listen to at times because I really don't know who really knows what their talking about I left a comment to this post You can't be wrong on a well read blog without being told so, by people who know more than...

Sahil and Steve have been posting some really great stuff on this whole question of “What’s a Web Service.”  I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this myself with my WSMQ project, so I thought I’d add my two cents.  Sahil is right on the money with his post WebServices - A WHOLE new way of thinking: You...

Sahil and Steve have been posting some really great stuff on this whole question of “What’s a Web Service.”  I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this myself with my WSMQ project, so I thought I’d add my two cents.  Sahil is right on the money with his post WebServices - A WHOLE new way of thinking: You...

I'd gather you all in a big stadium,  hook up a guitar to one of those voice box thingeys, and serenade the blogosphere with a 20 minute verision of "Baby I Love Your Way": Do you feel like we do? Get back. Do you feel..do you feel like we do? Oh baby do you feel? Oh baby do you feel, feel like we do? Do you feel...do you feel...like we...

I'd gather you all in a big stadium,  hook up a guitar to one of those voice box thingeys, and serenade the blogosphere with a 20 minute verision of "Baby I Love Your Way": Do you feel like we do? Get back. Do you feel..do you feel like we do? Oh baby do you feel? Oh baby do you feel, feel like we do? Do you feel...do you feel...like we...

You may have noticed our new CodeBetter.Com site design and logo. It was designed by long-time friend and graphic artist extraordinaire Brian Lanier (he’s available for freelance work, so if you’re interested, drop him an email).  This is the first in a series of site enhancements here, so stay tuned! -Brendan

You may have noticed our new CodeBetter.Com site design and logo. It was designed by long-time friend and graphic artist extraordinaire Brian Lanier (he’s available for freelance work, so if you’re interested, drop him an email).  This is the first in a series of site enhancements here, so stay tuned! -Brendan

Sometimes you may have the need for accessing html web content from within an application.  Why would you need to do this?  Well, suppose  you need to have a Windows Service periodically render a page with dynamic content and attach it to an email. Your application would need a way to request and save the remote...

Sometimes you may have the need for accessing html web content from within an application.  Why would you need to do this?  Well, suppose  you need to have a Windows Service periodically render a page with dynamic content and attach it to an email. Your application would need a way to request and save the remote...

I just received my much anticipated copy of James Avery's Visual Studio Hacks today.  Can't wait to get into it this weekend, but I read the credits and the list of contributers reads like my Bloglines subscriptions!  Just a few of the bloggers he mentions are Dave Donaldson, Scott Mitchell, Alex Papadimoulis, Roland Weigelt, and our...

I just received my much anticipated copy of James Avery's Visual Studio Hacks today.  Can't wait to get into it this weekend, but I read the credits and the list of contributers reads like my Bloglines subscriptions!  Just a few of the bloggers he mentions are Dave Donaldson, Scott Mitchell, Alex Papadimoulis, Roland Weigelt, and our...

 As part of our release of the WSMQ 1.0 Beta (SQL Server Version) installer, we had to build an installer that would install our database.  In the past, I've created database installers by hand, storing SQL Scripts in resource files, and doing the logic around installation options by hand. With the latest version of WSMQ, I used...