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A co-worker of mine saw the part one of these series, and came to talk to me. After a little discussion about the reasons why I had chosen the the SubSonic Starter Kit as well as the DinnerNow Starter kit, he requested to replace the DinnerNow application with something more useful. DinnerNow, although it's .Net 3.5 cool-NESS, can only be used by a very small portion of people out there. I might end up building something that will not benefit as many people as I would have expected.

Well, if I could recall, I once promised to share, from time to times, info on some kool stuff out there in the World Wide Web.

This time came with 2 of them that, IMHO, are worth mentioning:
Jing and DimDim...( I wonder who came up with the names).

Anyways, these are 2 different tools, but they are awesome. I have tested them both and they work just as advertised by the respective sites. The coolest thing about both? well, they are FREE, free as in free beer!

What are they and what do they do?

It's been quite a while since I undertook personal projects just for the kick of it. I do have a "lab" at home where I hands-on test various new and exciting technologies before I use them on serious and "paid for" projects.

Recently I have had some trouble figuring out what tool/application to build that would be useful to friends/family or simply the public. I kept beating around until I thought it might not be a bad idea if I took one of those asp.net starter kits and tortured them to the point where I could forever be banned from using MS technologies...joke!!

Yet another one from Rob Conery.

This time he is talking, or rather responding to many emails he has received, about the fact that it's quite hard or very difficult to use SubSonic for building well written and decoupled code.

Many people have even come to me and criticized SubSonic (you must have guessed that I use SubSonic extensively). I have nothing against people with constructive criticism. However, criticizing just because you are affraid of opening a can of worm is IMHO not the right approach.

From now on I will be sharing some of the articles I read around. In a way, I will do the dirty job, read around, and share what I believe is worth sharing. That will save you time and all you will start doing is come on bloodlive.com and get access to all the sweetness going on all over the Geek-World.

To kick off this serie of shared articles and info, let's go to Rob Conery's recent IQueryable with the upcoming SubSonic 3.0

Read it here

Yes, the boy is indeed 12, lives in California and part of the Drupal team(?).

I was watching HGTV last night, and there was an architect (the civil engineering kind, you know?) and he was asked "what makes him an architect?";
I thought I would try to answer the question myself, but in the software area of course. Below is a list of points or characteristics I believe makes an architect. It's a mixture of what I've learned from my own experience as well as from other architects' experiences. Some other points are from notes taken from architecture sessions at the 2007 Tech Ed...

Anyways, to answer the question, an Software architect is:

Well, yup...this is it for IE7 as my preferred browser. I must admit I am one of those who have seriously defended IE7, even in its times of despair. I was there, under the rain, the snow, the heavy hail, name it, I was there!!

I went all the way to talking about IE7 PRO, as a way to convince people to keeping on using IE7.

This is indeed a quicky, as in the fact that I will be as brief as I have never been on these posts.
I just wanted to share a little work around that has to do with ASP.NET and our beloved IE7 (I always support this browser and I still do, but Microsoft really needs to get his act together and roll just like everyone else.

The other day a developer friend of mine came to me with what he, himself, called a "trivial but hair pulling" issue with his code.