Jason Mauss' Blog Cabin

How should enums be modeled in your database? Static Lookup Table? Or should they be left out of the data model and contained only in the object model? Specifically, I'm thinking about an enum that is represented in the UI layer by something like a combo or list box.

This month has been very light on posts, mostly because I'm now splitting my time between blogging here and blogging over on my Project Fazr blog.

I've enjoyed a lot of Scott Berkun's essays and this one is worth a read if you have 15-20 minutes.

DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM
Stuart Langridge
Sitepoint, May 2005

There had been a lull for a while in getting new guides published to the internet over at Xtras HowToSelectGuides.com website. Just the other day though, Mike S published the Visual Studio 2005 Guide, written by Mike Gunderloy.

What I'm even more jazzed about is that the first guide that I wrote on .NET Charting components, is next in line to be published. When it gets published, it will be here.

As seen earlier on Ryan's Project Fazr blog, we're looking for a designer. If you're an artist, wield the photoshop hammer with mighty force, and are just a general multimedia geek, we'd love for you to join us. See the second link in this post for a better description of what exactly we're looking for and how it would work out, who to contact, etc.

Has anybody ever come across this error when trying to insert data into a CLOB column in Oracle using ADO?

As you might've read on Robert Scoble's recent post (well, as of August 12th, 2005 at about 5pm..sheesh that guy posts a lot!), he linked to the Project FAZR Blogs and wonder if we'll come up with anything. To that I say, "of course we'll come up with something!"