Fresh Beginnings

One of the things I hear myself saying nearly all the time sounds something like “if I were starting over…” If you make a living writing software, building websites, building databases, or writing reports you must have, on a regular basis, one of these...

Are we there yet?

I’ve been absorbed lately with the nagging question that keeps coming up every time I solve what I thought was going to be a simple problem – “Are we the only ones doing this?” This is followed by the more important question – “How...

VisualBasic

It occurs to me, and not just because we write and sell a .NET product, that a good number of owners of large VB 6.0 applications are about to become a little nervous. As part of a proposal for one of these companies, I was tracking down the support dates and...

Web Projects and .NET 2.0

I’ve spent a frustrating day (again) attempting to setup a web project that is a sub-project of our main application. For whatever reason, I can’t reference code in a referenced assembly unless I load it as a control reference and, at least in most cases,...

Picklists

We’ve spent a bunch of time solving the problem of vocabulary lists for a database application. A vocabulary list is one of those tables that have a key (typically an integer or a GUID) and some text. The “key” (primary key in DBMS-speak) is referenced by a...

Architecture

Keeping at the forefront in any industry requires that companies cannot only imagine great new products, but can get them from the vision stage into full production in the most efficient possible manner. The NetQuarry platform provides an engine for driving...