Sep 9, 2009, 12:00AM During my career as a consultant and web developer I've worked on a number of "software as a service" (SaaS) web applications. Such web applications are designed to be used by multiple customers, where each customer is typically a company that has...

Sep 4, 2009, 9:12AM This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.Today’s post covers another useful improvement in VS 2010 – HTML/ASP.NET/JavaScript snippet support.  Snippets allow you to be more productive within source...

Sep 7, 2009, 3:33PM This is kind of a call for help.  One of the patterns I’m talking about in my book is what I call the “Screen Activator.”  First off, what I’m calling the Screen Activator is a role within an application that is...

Sep 3, 2009, 3:45PM Well, now that Rhino Mocks 3.6 is out of the way, we need to think about what the next version will look like.Initially, I thought to match Rhino Mocks 4.0 to the .NET 4.0 release and support mocking dynamic variables, but while this is still on the...

Sep 6, 2009, 7:50AM There seems to be some confusion regarding my post about soft deletes, in particular, people brought up the idea of append only models.I had the chance to work on both types of systems, and I can tell you that I would much rather work with append only...