http://www.webdevguy.net Personal website of David Brown Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:12:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick reminder to the programmers out there: make sure you write unit tests from the beginning! I've recently been working on a NHibernate/ActiveRecord class library that's fairly complex. When finished, it will wrap 125 database tables into C# classes. At the moment, it's approximately 20% complete and I only ... http://www.webdevguy.net/2008/09/24/test-test-test/ So, who wants to guess what brand of soda I drink every day? That photo happens to be the contents of my trash can at the office. The whole place is practically paper-less, as you can see. http://www.webdevguy.net/2008/09/18/take-a-guess/ The web application I'm working on comes in two parts: the API and the Interface. The API is an ASP.NET application. The interface is written entirely in Javascript (using ExtJS) and one very simple HTML page. Hosting the Javascript interface in IIS was simple. The ASP.NET application, however, needs to be ... http://www.webdevguy.net/2008/08/23/simple-classic-asp-proxy/ While working on a simple web API, I needed a way to serialize an object (using the XML serializer) to a string so I could return it as an API response. Unfortunately, there's no Serialize() override for returning a string value. Instead, you'll have to use a MemoryStream object and ... http://www.webdevguy.net/2008/08/17/xml-serialize-object-to-string/