Coder's Coffee House SQL in VB .NET 2015-03-12 It's generally seen as a good rule of thumb to avoid writing inline SQL and it's a rule I try to observe - the obvious pitfall being it isn't parsed until runtime. Stored procedures can mitigate against this but I tend to avoid - with cached queries the advantage of ... Roll Your Own Data Access Layer 2015-02-06 This is a follow up to a previous post I did about a website I'm upgrading. You have a website that you manage that wasn't written by you and wasn't the best piece of software ever written to start with. But now it's old and needs upgrading. The problem is ... Legacy ASP.NET Websites 2014-11-26 So, you've got an old ASP.NET website using the now (or so it seems) disliked Web Forms that really needs upgrading but you simply don't have the time or resources to devote to the task. But making incremental changes with all the good new stuff is difficult because websites don't ... Welcome 2014-11-03 Welcome to my brand new blog. This is the place where I will be sharing my ideas and tutorials on stuff related to my day job. I've been answering questions and submitting comments to techie blogs for some time and reckon it makes more sense to concentrate my efforts on ... Newer Posts