Last week, I had some specs to create a grid view in ASP that had normal column headers, as one might expect, and then also “super” column headers, where the columns were categorized. So, if, for instance, you had columns for “Dog”, “Cat”, and “Bird”, those three headers might have a “super-header” called “Pet”, in…
Recently, I posted my incredulity at the idea that someone would go to the effort of writing unit tests and not source control them as a matter of course. I find that claim as absurd today as I did then, but I did happen on an interesting edge case where I purposely discarded a unit…
Over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself working within a framework where I’m writing a lot of SQL. Most specifically, in the code I’m writing a lot of WHERE clauses related to optional user search parameters. As a simple example, consider a search over “customer” where a user could filter by a part of…
Gut Reaction I was talking with someone about possible approaches to an API the other day. He asked me if I’d favor a method that took a parameter and had a return value or if I’d prefer a method that was void and took two parameters but with one as a ref parameter. My immediate,…
There is a Linq extension method that I managed to miss for a long time: Any(). It’s fairly natural to miss this, I believe, since the paradigm of collections tends to be fully ingrained in our way of doing things. That is, if I want to see if any members of a collection match a…
