Dimitri Glazkov

Representing xsd:choice element in C#13 days beforeThe issue of correctly representing semantics of an xsd:choice element seemed like…Regrettable Software, Tossed Salad, and Web Development

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The Bogeyman of ASP.NET2004Let me first start by saying that ASP.NET is an awesome framework.…I’ve done some reading (and posting) on the excellent ASP.NET forum and, by far it seems, the most frequent cause of the issues that people have with their code is making the distinction between server side and client side of a Web application. I am not exactly sure why. Maybe the problem stems from the fact that most of today’s Web development platforms allow (and encourage) using the “tossed salad” declaration of server side and client side: your server-side code is mixed together with your client-side code.

ECMAScript 4 on the Server2007Let’s imagine there is a viable, publicly available ECMAScript4 (that’s Javascript 2.0,…ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, JSP, PHP, and other scripting language platforms all attempt to marry DHTML and server-side logic in a single file. I am not saying that they are doing it wrong — there are far too many more of them than just me. But looking at posts full of confusion and hacking burn-out makes me wonder if the cow of architecture and strategic thinking was sacrificed to the gods of convenience.

Shadows and Curses2022The second curse can be seen as the interplay between “ 🔮…It stands to reason whether it would be better to engineer your development platform in a way that would encourage architectural thinking rather than aid the hapless member of a cargo cult in quickly hacking something together. Something that inevitably becomes a piece of “regrettable software” — software that is painful to build, painful to use, and painful to maintain.

Call Me Gearhead2007So, I am playing with Google Gears and I’ve got to tell…In the meantime, there’s definitely a market for a “know thy (sever|client) side” training. Speaking of which, trying to learn by coding in one of the “tossed salad” platforms may lead to a Gordian Knot of concepts in the students’ head. So, if you are trying to learn Web development platform from scratch, be that ASP.NET or ColdFusion MX, make sure to keep the layers separate:

Crashing Through Deadlocksthree days afterAlthough concurrency management is somewhat represented in C# with the lock statement,…Just not all at once.