When you have an Enum variable, and you want to build a UI to let the user choose one of this values, it's very convenient to show the user the current allowed values of the Enum. You can avoid duplicate data, doing this... (note it uses reflection, so...

In the last year, I've seen a number of new web applications with nice rich UI interface, and most of them are standards based, so multibrowser-mulitplatform (thanks to firefox). I'm talking about things like the SelectContactControl of GMail. Today I...

http://www.changethis.com/12.SixLawsSoftware .. and I'm completely agree...

The XmlSerializer included in the .Net Fx, has been one of my favorite's. We've suffered too much with the COM (MSXML) approach to OO/XML mappings. We could classify the use of the XmlSerialization in different steps. 1 You don't know how to use Xml with...

Google employees are also bloggin, here is a nice post with a different point of view about relationships between Open Source and Commercial Companies. http://blog.kowalczyk.info/archives/2004/12/29/google-we-take-it-all-give-nothing-back/

http://patternshare.org/ check it out, and let me know waht you think about it.