pragmatism

How do I reduce view duplication between client and server?

I'm working on an AJAXy project (Dojo and Rails, if the particulars matter). There are several places where the user should be able to sort, group, and filter results. There are also places where a user fills out a short form and the resulting item gets added to a list on the same page. The non-AJAXy implementation works fine -- the v...

The patterns and practices rabbit hole

I generally like to think of myself as a patterns and practices guy. I like the structure and guidelines that they give me, my teams, and my projects. In general I find that developing against best practices and current patterns helps my projects to live longer and be more easily developed against and maintained. However, I have been ...

c# design question - standalone GUI application

Hi folks. It's a pleasure to see how much knowledge people have on here, it's a treasure of a place. I've seen myself writing code for DataGridView events - and using DataSource to a backend prepared DataTable object. Sometimes the user can remove rows, update them etc. and the underlying data will need validation checks again. Let's a...