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Principal Consultant, ObjectSharp
Bruce Johnson is a Principal Consultant with ObjectSharp and a 25-year veteran of the computer industry. He spent half of that time working in the MultiValue database and UNIX marketplace, but the past 10 years have been spent on projects at the leading edge of Windows technology, including using .NET since the introduction of version 1.0. His experience includes the creation of commercial web applications using HTML/DHTML and JavaScript, the implementation of Web Services in a financial institution and the building of Windows Forms applications for software vendors. As well as his experience in system design and development, he has also given over 200 presentations at user conferences all over North America and has been published in International Spectrum magazine (where he had a column for six years), ASPToday.com and C#Today.com. He is also the co-author of The ASP 3.0 Code Maintenance handbook (Wrox Press)
October 27, 2006
Software Development
Consider this post to be little more that a future reminder for me. If you’re looking for a mechanism to send an email message when a work item is assigned to a developer, check out the solution offered here .
October 26, 2006
Software Development
I don’t normally verge away from the technical when it comes to this blog, but I promised my son this post. A little over two weeks ago, he started a blog. Specifically, he starting writing book reviews for the many books that he reads. So if you have a boy in the range of 6–10 years old , check out http://camsreviews.blogspot.com . The one thing I will say is that, if you’re trying to get your ch...
July 20, 2006
Software Development
I’ve spent some time over the last couple of weeks pondering an unusual SQL tuning problem. The situation is as follows: The following statements are executed against a SQL 2000 database that contains >1M records in the act_item table. They are run using Query Analyzer and the Duration and Reads come from SQL Profiler
June 14, 2006
Software Development
If you weren’t listening closely, you might have missed the announcement that the WinFX technologies have been renamed to .NET 3.0. One of the questions I have been fielding frequently here at TechEd is ‘what does .NET 3.0 mean to .NET 2.0 applications’.
June 11, 2006
Software Development
Arrived at the hotel a few minutes ago, after spending a wet by nice weekend at Cape Cod with my wife. Yes, I wasn’t as eager as my colleagues to get started on the technical content. So sue me. :)
June 7, 2006
Software Development
For developers, the move from VB6 to VB.NET (or any .NET language) is much more of a mental one than anything else. The syntax of VB.NET is sufficiently familiar to avoid syntax overload. But the functional differences are significant enough to make one question how .NET could make anyone more productive. It has been a while since I made the move myself, but I’d like to share the stages that I, an...