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Originally I decided to build this site as an excuse to learn Ruby on Rails. However, after a slight
learning curve issue I did what most do...I went back to what I know. So this site is built using SQL
Server, ASP.NET MVC and Linq.
Please have a look around and see what you think
The Problem-Solution Relationship
Often, I'm reminded that is extremely difficult to resist the urge to use some new, hyped-up solution even when it is not suited for the problem at hand. Like all developers, I sometimes recommend technologies, frameworks and methodologies because those are areas I'm interested in. However, I've found that this is never really the best situation for the customer.
A typical example of this is selecting which vendor solution, database provider, web framework and technologies will be used bef...[read more]
Published Friday, February 26, 2010 9:00 AM by David Muto
Serializing CDATA with the XmlSerializer
I recently came across a situation in which I needed to modify an existing WCF service that works with the XmlSerializer (instead of the DataContractSerializer). Essentially the system already had a set of data transfer objects that were serialized to XML using the XmlSerializer. The problem came up, when we needed to ensure that certain string values were enclosed in a CDATA element so that they could include some special characters.
I needed to change quite a few properties across several DTO...[read more]
Published Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:21 AM by David Muto
Migrating Flash from HitBox to SiteCatalyst
Recently we have migrated from WebSideStory's HitBox application to Omniture's SiteCatalyst. While the migration is relatively straight forward for web pages, there have been some complications around tracking with flash.
Before implementing anything in this article, please contact your omniture representative. There is a flash component that offers more features and requires very little custromization on the flash end. This article addresses a situation in which the flash cannot be update...[read more]
Published Thursday, October 08, 2009 14:54 PM by David Muto