XML-based CMS

January 5th, 2010 by Sean | No Comments

We’re about to go live with a site with an XML-based CMS. While this doesn’t sound all that impressive, there are some cool things happening. We’re using LINQ to XML to pull the content from the XML file. Also, we are doing nothing with the actual .aspx pages. Everything is being done at the masterpage level. Once we go live, I’ll write more. This will probably also wind up as an article in the Ideosphere.

Hard at work

November 4th, 2009 by Sean | No Comments
Just moments after making an offer to bring our first employee up to full time, Rich is working hard.

Deep Dive on LINQ

September 17th, 2009 by Sean | No Comments
Here’s a must-watch video on what’s going on behind the scenes in LINQ queries. Very informative and picked up a couple coding tips/techniques to speed things along. Watch it here.

No Time for SSPI

September 4th, 2009 by Sean | No Comments
Over the last few days, I’ve had an issue on my local machine where I could not connect to our development SQL server instance and I kept getting a message “Could Not Generate SSPI context”. It appeared to be happening after I VPN’d into a client’s network. After racking our collective brains for a good ...

Hierarchical Data Modeling w/a Relational DB

September 1st, 2009 by Sean | No Comments
Warning: high geek content! Michael M. David over at TDAN.com has a very cool (in my mind) article about modeling hierachical data using SQL in a relational database. It’s deep but super cool, IMHO. Check it out here.