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Classic ASP / .NET Legacy Goodness
[29 Jun 2009 | 0 Comments]

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve come across full-fledged systems that were created 10 years ago when classic ASP was acceptable commonplace. Back then of course, classic ASP was cool. The shift from static HTML to dynamically generated content was a compelling one, and to be fair it has serv... [More]

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Concise is Nice
[20 Jun 2009 | 0 Comments]

In falling in love with a programming language, one of the qualities most people look for is the level of elegance that can be achieved within the language. Few things are more satisfying to a programmer than solving the problem with beautiful, elegant code. Elegance and conciseness are closely re... [More]

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Mental Modelling
[11 Jun 2009 | 2 Comments]

Over the last 10 years I've worked of a number of both small and large projects. Until recently I hadn't really evaluated my approach to a new project. I hadn't really thought much about how I decided on a design, how I began the implementation and how I generally managed the project. Over time i... [More]