DotNet Stuff

I spent some time today surfing through a bunch of .net stuff. I’ve been picking up on some things from DotNetRocks that I wanted to look into, and I just wound up following some trails. Here are a few interesting links:

  • CodeSmith — interesting tool that I need to look into.
  • DotNetNuke — I interviewed a guy today who was thinking about starting a company and writing his own CMS in ASP.NET. He hadn’t heard of DNN before. He may have been trying to do something a bit different from DNN, or he may have been reinventing the wheel. I hope he takes a look at it before he starts coding from scratch!
  • Community Server — the last time I looked at these guys, they weren’t quite done yet. Now they’re at version 1.2 and apparently quite usable. I may have to try this out, maybe for a departmental blog at work.
  • An interesting discussion of strings in .Net here. Maybe I should put some stuff about String vs. StringBuilder on the test I give to interviewees.
  • Thycotic.Data — maybe not that useful for me, but kind of interesting.
  • Rockford Lhotka — I’m kind of interested in his book, after hearing him on DNR. I honestly don’t know much about n-tier development.

Living in text files

Here’s a crazy idea: keep all your stuff in one big text file! I really can’t see myself doing this, though I see the advantages. I use OneNote and Vault (an old shareware program) on Windows, and iOrganize on the Mac to keep track of all my stuff. Oh, and of course Palm Desktop in conjunction with my Palm i705. The result: stuff all over the place!