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• Finishing the last few courses of a geek buffet

  I’ve been in mad scientist mode for a few months now and especially over the last few weeks, feeding off of every interesting thing I could find / read. It’s the binge. You know it. You know how it usually ends up – a million ideas, too much to do, and... Posted Jan 05 2009, 08:00 AM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding, Open Source, Entreprenuership

• MEF – Baby Steps

  MEF is the Managed Extensibility Framework, which is a project out on CodePlex. The aim of the project is to allow greater reuse of applications and components. Microsoft has said that they will be using it in the next rev of Visual Studio – so there... Posted Dec 19 2008, 09:29 PM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding, Open Source, dashCommerce, Programming Tip

• Gleaning some inspiration from a friend

  My friend Corey Haines recently embarked on an interesting experience. He has spent the last three weeks traveling around the central midwest pair programming with people that would put him up for a few days. I’ve been watching the videos and the twitter... Posted Dec 18 2008, 06:17 PM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding, Open Source, dashCommerce

• Microsoft’s BizSpark – Well Done!!

  For those of you out there looking to free yourself from The Cubicle Nation, you should definitely check out the Microsoft BizSpark program. This is an enormous package for basement startups and I wish, oh do I wish, something like this would have been... Posted Dec 18 2008, 09:00 AM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding, Entreprenuership

• Documentation Suggestions ??

  There are some things that I WANT desperately to get right before we start on dC v.Next and one of those is documentation. I am talking about conceptual, code examples and and API documentation. The API documentation is pretty well taken care of with... Posted Dec 18 2008, 08:00 AM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding, Open Source

• Programming Tip – Icon Handler

  I stumbled on this tool and the accompanying utility the other day and thought is particularly handy. The IconHandler will pull from the OS the appropriate icon for a file given it’s extension. In the case of servers that may not have the associated software... Posted Dec 17 2008, 08:05 AM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding

• New Stuff at dashCommerce.com

  I wanted to mention that there are some new tools and utilities over at dashCommerce.com. There is the new YocuTeem Per Order Shipping Charge provider written by forum member YocuTeem. I know he’s got a bunch of other stuff cooking, so keep your eye on... Posted Dec 16 2008, 08:00 AM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding, Open Source, dashCommerce

• ISV Tip – Subversion Source Control Hosting

  For an small ISV, the trouble you frequently encounter is managing all of the systems, environments, and tools you need to run your business. One of the fundamental things is source control. I have always been a bit of a source control nut – openly scoffing... Posted Dec 11 2008, 08:00 AM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding, Programming Tip

• Toward a More Dynamic Security Model

  I’ve been thinking about the dashCommerce security model – or lack thereof. Sure there is standard security, but what I want to be able to do is identify certain course grained operations and apply an authorization rule to it. That rule can then be configured... Posted Dec 10 2008, 09:00 AM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding, dashCommerce

• Programming Tip – Complimentary Database Tools

  I use the Database Publishing Tool a lot. For some reason the version in Visual Studio didn’t work as well for me, so I have stuck with the free standing version of it. Not sure if there is a version that works with Sql Server 2008 yet, but this one works... Posted Dec 09 2008, 08:00 AM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding, Programming Tip

• What Unit Test Framework Should I Use?

  I have a lot of experience with NUnit, so it is very familiar to me. I did some work with MbUnit a while back and I liked some of the features of it. But, I know there are a bunch more out there now and I am looking for some feedback on what unit testing... Posted Dec 08 2008, 10:00 AM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding

• Programming Tip – PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008

  These have proven to be an excellent help. Check them out here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerCommands While writing this, I was listening to "Beautiful Day" by U2        Posted Dec 08 2008, 08:00 AM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding, Programming Tip

• LINQ-ify Anything

  When I set out to write my ORM, I had two guiding principles: 1.) Loose Coupling was key. I wanted the result of the ORM to be loosely coupled, and I wanted any dependencies the ORM had to be loosely coupled as well. 2.) I wanted 1 and only 1 query language... Posted Nov 27 2008, 07:24 AM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding, Open Source

• Programming Tip

  If you have made changes to files and have not committed them, but then find that you need to revert the file to a the previous state and you don’t want to lose those changes, simply create a patch for the file. Save the patch file to the same directory... Posted Nov 22 2008, 01:46 PM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding

• dashCommerce v.Next

  I’ve been fairly quiet over the last few months. Most of that is due to the new addition to my family (my new son, Harrison), but some of it is because I am in mad scientist mode. That entails a ton of reading and prototyping. I’ve been taking a close... Posted Nov 22 2008, 01:42 PM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding, Open Source, dashCommerce