It's been some time since my last post, I started in a Drupal project, so I have to learn a lot of things; one of the most interesting is its OOD/OOP - Object Oriented Design/Object Oriented Programming - approach wich states that "...Drupal code base and API does reflect some principles found in object-oriented programming and design".  More

Some time ago we had a really weird problem: our extension methods worked fine in code-behind, and when we used then in inline code (asp.net) with a web form they seem to be fine too, intellisence recognized them, no compilation errors arose but when running the code the “ CS0117: 'type' does not contain a definition for 'identifier' ” error appeared. More

Most of all applications available in the Apple App Store provides us the "Send Email", "Recommend a Friend" and "Share This" functionality. There are two different ways to provide you applications this feature: the hard one (which is usually the wrong one too, believe me I've seen coding horrors in this subject) and the simple one (the correct one). More

Let’s investigate the importance of the use of persistence layers between applications and databases. The idea is to show the benefits and functions of persistence layers with a simple example built in NHibernet for .Net applications. More

First of all, I am one of those persons who prefers to learn from short specific tutorials and not with complex and useless books filled with useless details and situations that would almost NEVER happen in real life software engineering. The really important thing to keep in mind is to really make an effort to understand what every technology offers, why and in what way I can use it. We should NEVER become a recipe-following machine, I have sadly seen that through my years working in software development projects. This is completely avoidable if we seek good information sources and we try really hard to make everything we develop have real logic and real common sense. More

As Einstein once said: “May things be simple, but not simpler”. So, let’s export a html table to Excel in 10 lines or less. More

Hi everyone, long time without a word, I know I offer a series based on RDF and I'll do that as promise but for now I'd like to share some opinions I have about SAAS, because it's causing a lot of talking lately.  More

Problem: There is a base class BasePage.cs which inherits from System.Web.UI.Page. This base class is responsible for defining common properties, setting default values, base rendering logic, cross-cutting concerns logic, among other common functionalities. There is also a master page MasterPage.master which provides the inherited page with the common visual elements to be shared across the site. This is how the inheritance diagram looks like:  More