Jose Guay

Hi all. I’ve been reading this book for a few weeks now and thought of writting a few lines about it. About the Book Well, to start just to point out that the book is from Manning Publications (very good book publishing company) and it’s not that big (576 pages). Also, it has been aroud for […]

  Hi all. A few weeks ago got the opportunity to read this book from Manning Publications. It’s still with status of Early Access so I got an e-book. I was very enthusiastic about it. I’ve had some very good comments about NHibernate so I decided to give it a try. About the book ORMs […]

Hola fanáticos de Silverlight Mike Taulty ha lanzado una impresionante colección de 44 screencasts sobre Silverlight 2.0. Cubre temas como el funcionamiento general de Silverlight, controles, manejo de archivos, redes, diseño de interfaces, acceso a datos, interacción con páginas de HTML y mucho mas. Este es un valiosísimo recurso que pueden aprovechar para aprender (o […]

It’s official. You can now download version 1.0 RTM of the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP from the MSDN download site.  The SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP download is available to all SQL Server users at no additional charge. The SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is a PHP 5 extension that allows for […]

La versión 1.0 del Driver de SQL Server 2005 para PHP está disponible en el sitio de descargas de MSDN. Ahora si, no hay excusas. Esta, es una extensión de PHP 5 que permite la lectura y escritura de datos almacenados en SQL Server 2005 desde scripts de PHP. La extensión provee de una interface procedural para el […]

Repeaters are very powerful controls that allows us to present formated information from a datasource. Recently I needed to include some RadioButtons inside a Repeater so I could select one of the items from the repeater, but to my surprise, and old bug resurfaced. Reference to the bug can be found here but I will […]

Most of the time, we create programs that use DataReaders (weather they are on ASP.NET or Winforms). They’re fast, easy to use but sometimes, they fill out our connections pool and withour proper care, they can cause problems to our users. There are some blog posts around this issue and many questions in the forums, […]

Ya es oficial!! El Primer Preview de ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 acaba de salir a la luz. Pueden ver el Roadmap para mas información sobre el contenido de este preview y si pueden, por favor envíen un poco de feedback. Este preview contiene (entre otros) las siguientes implementaciones: Client-side template rendering Declarative instantiation of behaviors and controls DataView control Markup […]

Well, it’s official. The first preview for the new Ajax features in ASP.NET just went live. Check out the Roadmap for information about what it covers and if you can, provide some feedback. This preview contains preview implementations for the following features: Client-side template rendering Declarative instantiation of behaviors and controls DataView control Markup extensions Bindings […]

Hi all. I’m a bit late but it’s never late for good news. It’s here, now SubSonic 2.1 has finally arrived. Description SqlQuery, our next-generation querying engine SubStage, a visual configuration management and code generation tool Programmatic migrations between database versions Greatly improved documentation across the entire code base Improvements in performance and stability …and […]