As many of you know I have made some strong statements in the past regarding ORMs (in fact I’ve probably lost readers over it). Recently in my day job , I was given two projects that I decided to use an ORM for (and I used different ones each time). I used the writings of my fellow blogger, David...

My co-worker, Rob Teixeira, MVP (he makes me put those three characters --"MVP-- in if I'm going to quote him), sent me a nice little tidbit today in email. It's a performance assessment (I won't call it a test) of the Enterprise Services vs. TCP Remoting vs. XML Web Services. The Article is here . The...

[Update... be sure to read the comments where Raymond Lewallen corrects me] Ok, after about a year of hearing people write about the glories of Extreme Programming, I think I get it. More importantly, I think I might want to do it (at least part of it). Let me explain what I think I know and then someone...