Hey, if Sahil can post a book cover, I can post a product box.  =)

Sahil asks on this post: "Since most of your audience are computer geeks, how about an english friendly, non-mba description of what "Asset Management" is .. and why should I care?" Well, the MBA description isn't so bad.  So here's a small business lesson that is common sense, but important to the concept of Asset Management.  You...

Ok, it's been a bit of time since I posted some technical content.  I seem to be the only codebetter blogger who has big business aspirations and is launching a real ISV so I've been trying to mix that content into the Codebetter feed for those of you who have similar aspirations.  I think it's time to get back to some technical...

<LifeUpdate> I know I haven't had much in the way of updates for my ISV for a while, but I've been crazy busy: I have the project I'm finishing up now (http://www.ihomeschool.com is the marketing site, my team is building the application) I'm working on a few jobs for some contract clients of mine.  Over the past 6 months I've...

Since december, my domain manager pattern has been tweaked in a few places to make it a little more sturdy and support composite keys, etc. I've updated my original HowTo article

http://www.paymon.net/Pages/Show.aspx?page=17 Image compression tool for those of you who want to allow users to upload large images without having to have the user go through the pain of compression.  In a test it chunked down a 1.2mb image I uploaded to a mere 50ish kb.  Image still looked good when displayed as well.  The tool...

Scott doesn't.  I do... sometimes. I generally prefer business objects and collections thereof for a good chunk of my ASP .NET applications.  This is mostly because by extending business objects with properties, methods, and events I can gain a level of control that isn't possible with the dataset.  Using a datareader to populate...

I'm a big believer in letting the specialist do what they do best.  I think that a lot of problems in the IT world are caused by people who want to be all things to everyone.  It is important that we realize that although we may have a broad skillset and understanding (basic understanding of all pieces of an application is vital!), it...

I've spent the morning considering this, given the recent statements by Bill Gates about H1-B limitations (currently 65,000) and how this is damaging to technology companies. There are a few differing points of view on this: Buy USA View- There are US citizen IT workers that are currently out of work.  We should make sure we've...

Interesting find at work today.  One of my developers had two asp:image controls positioned to the right and left of a button.  The developer wanted on the click of an image to call the button postback.  I had no idea that the GetPostBackEventReference(control) even existed until Brendan pointed me to it (thanks buddy)...

Well, the time is getting close now.  Soon will be the official unveiling of the Easy Assets : Standard and Easy Assets : Enterprise packages.  What this means for me is that I'm tightening the bolts on the application, finishing off user documentation, testing installs on any pc I can get my hands on, and redesigning my website with...

I had a post a while back that discussed my personal interviewing techniques, and how to identify "dead wood" developers in your organization.  I received a lot of positive feedback on this topic and it seems many young developers were particularily interested in the application of the topic to better position themselves to impress an...

There has always been a mini religious war between programmers about code layout/style and when to optimize.  My personal take on this has been put more weight on readability and maintainability over highly condensed, optimized code.  Here's a few thoughts on this subject: Don't optimize first In almost all cases I have ever seen,...

I know I haven't been overly active lately but I'm in "Crunch Mode" for Easy Assets .NET.  My ISV is taking full form now.  The application itself is stable, solid, and overall I'm just putting in a few last minute tweaks based on feedback. The install package works flawlessly for existing sql server / msde installs.  The script...

I'd like to have VS 2005 from the MSDN account I paid good money for. However my provider, My-eSuite just isn't going to let me. 4.9 kb/s, 288 hours.  So I'll be blogging about VS 2005 sometime in May.  That's my "broadband" cable modem service.  No other providers available here. I love this apartment complex, but I'm afraid I'm...