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Re: A Man, a Car and His Startup

Kevin Pang — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:18:12 -0000

It sounds like your wife is willing to move up North in July. Why not just wait until then and move together? That way you don't have to be separated for 4 months and you'll get to live comfortably.

Re: Massive: 400 Lines of Data Access Happiness

Kevin Pang — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:45:25 -0000

1. Sounds good. :-)
2. As far as validation goes, Massive could check to see if the object being persisted implemented IValidatableObject, and if so, call its Validate routine. Or, if you want to get fancier than that (e.g. adding callbacks for things like BeforeSave, AfterSave, etc.), you could create your own interface that included all of those routines and say that the convention is to implement the interface if you want to intercept those events.

Re: Massive: 400 Lines of Data Access Happiness

Kevin Pang — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:22:40 -0000

Looks pretty nifty Rob. Can't wait to play around with it.

A couple questions:

1. Does Massive support the deletion and creation of records within the same transaction?
2. I may be missing something, but why do we need to inherit from DynamicModel? Couldn't you simply instantiate an instance of DynamicModel with the table name and primary key ID? As far as I can tell, the Products class in your example doesn't actually use any of its internal properties/fields. Instead, calls to things like Update or Insert take in the object to persist to DB. So why not just make DynamicModel a standalone class rather than having to inherit from it?

Re: Social Media as a Software Development Tool?

Kevin Pang — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:12:29 -0000

Have you checked out Campfire? It's part of the 37 Signals suite and I hear it's quite good at what it does. I'm sure it integrates nicely with their other products like Basecamp as well.

Re: Never Underestimate Your Own Stupidity

Kevin Pang — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:31:11 -0000

I've done that before myself. I agree that the error message is a bit vague, but I guess that's about the best it can do. After all, the system doesn't know what the connection string is supposed to look like, only that it tried to connect to it, never received a response, and subsequently timed out.

Re: Tumblr Test Post 1

Kevin Pang — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:09:27 -0000

Test comment

Re: If bit.ly Is Worth $8 Million, TinyURL Is Worth At Least $46 Million

Kevin Pang — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:18:56 -0000

Twitter only grants you 140 characters per message. Because of this, the shorter your url links are the better. TinyUrl.com is simply way too many characters to be dedicating towards a url when you're constrained to a small number of characters per message.

Re: Introducing ManagedAssembly.com

Kevin Pang — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:54:48 -0000

Looks good John!

Re: Poor man's email? (Scripting News)

Kevin Pang — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:21:37 -0000

Twitter is the CB of the internet

Re: 5 Secrets To Ninja Writing : Rob Conery

Kevin Pang — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:56:04 -0000

Hillarious. :-) Well done, Rob.

Re: A different view of strings

Kevin Pang — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:46:03 -0000

Have you done any performance testing on this? I know that regexes in .NET code tend to be on the slower end. Not sure about javascript regex performance though.

Re: Blogkeeping

Kevin Pang — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:50:06 -0000

Congrats on joining The Lounge. :-)

Re: SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: Linq Has Landed : Rob Conery

Kevin Pang — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:07:37 -0000

Looks great Rob. Can't wait to play around with this. :-)

Re: Pluggable ASP.NET CacheManager

Kevin Pang — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:41:32 -0000

I use a very similar approach for session variables as well.

Re: What Lao Tse thinks of TDD

Kevin Pang — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:39:46 -0000

That was very well written. It's rare these days to see bloggers take the time and due diligence to write up something like this. Thank you for the interesting read.

I find that your experience with TDD to be very similar to mine -- a little slow at first, but without a doubt worthwhile. I'm not so sure I agree with the analogy of TDD being the fingers of a potter; I think the comparison works better to software development as a whole. I'm not actually sure where TDD fits into that analogy to be honest. Perhaps that's why it's so hard for some to adopt it. There are very few professions where something like TDD is encouraged, so it only makes sense that it feels a bit unnatural to developers (and even moreso to newer developers who have not had to experience the pain that comes from working with code that is not unit tested).

Anyways, those are my thoughts. Thanks again for the great read. :-)

Re: A Practical Example Of Using The New Features Of ASP.NET 3.5

Kevin Pang — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:00:02 -0000

Mike,

Nice post. Very easy to follow. :)

I noticed that you are using BlogEngine.NET to host your blog like I am. I was wondering what you are using to display your code snippets? They look very nice on your blog, complete with syntax highlighting and no mysterious HTML tags embedded in them.