Mathew Nolton Blog

I have not blogged in about 3 months. I have been so caught up in the design and rollout of a new system at Cox Communications where I am consulting here in Atlanta. Our directive was to supplant the existing system with a new system that enables the sale of bundled products and services.

...you get a personal letter from the store manager at Home Depot thanking you for my business.

The mono project is something I have been watching but not getting involved with. It's not that I don't want to. With so much going on in our fast-moving technology space, i have had to carefully pick where I spend my time. Lately it has been about looking at whidbey, object databases, AOP and some other personal and business endeavors....Mono, although fascinating, is just too far down the list for me. When this happens I often pick up a book on the subject in order to stay abreast of the going-on. I saw this book on mono and considering reading up on it. Mono: A Developer's Notebook. Any other suggestions?

Visiting Sean Schades blog I came across this. TheDailyWTF.com. People can post horrific code they come across and have everyone comment on it. It's a good laugh and worth a visit....

Check it out at: http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showarticle.tss?id=AssemblyVersioning

I keep a blog because it is a good way to share information and be part of a community. At times I post information to soliticit feedback and help people solve problems that I have encountered. For example, I have a post about forcing a postback using asp.net http://weblogs.asp.net/mnolton/archive/2003/06/04/8260.aspx. It has been found on google and a lot of information is shared. Whether every comment is valuable is not really the point. The point is sharing information. The vast majority of people are good citizens and share information.

Justin Gehtland, a writer for theserverside.net, wrote a nice little article about writing better, faster, lighter programming in .Net. A link to it can be found on TheServerSide.Net here http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=27499. The actual article is here http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/07/14/BFLJava.html