Sometimes you just need to CodingHorror it!

The title of this post is a tongue-in-cheek reference to SubSonic’s inline query by the same name, which in turn is a reference to the blogger Jeff Atwood’s blog who you should all know. Rob Conery, the SubSonic project leader, named the inline query class CodingHorror after he allegedly read Jeff Atwood’s post titled Embracing Languages Inside Languages, in which he bestowed the virtues of inline SQL inside your code, instead of the standard bequeathed statement that I bet you all have heard “We do all database work in stored procedures.”. Jeff outlined his though process on ad-hoc vs stored procs as follows: ...

December 3, 2009 · 4 min · 672 words · Nick Berardi

Is Stackoverflow.com really a Web 2.0 site?

I have been lucky enough to be one of the few and many people that have had the chance to preview the beta of stackoverflow.com. It has a very nice look and feel in my opinion and seems to work very well for an early beta. Jeff Atwood deserves major kudos. However I have had one plaguing question? Is stackoverflow.com really a Web 2.0 site? I started thinking about this question a couple days ago, because as many of you know I have my own project, that isn’t much different functionality wise than stack overflow. As I started cataloging everything that a Web 2.0 site is suppose to consist of, the more I asked the question what is a Web 2.0 site, and is stackoverflow.com really one? ...

August 14, 2008 · 4 min · 658 words · Nick Berardi