I have been reading allot about design patterns lately, and I have found a general pattern that I think really makes sense. It goes something like this: 1. POCO (plain old C# class) for all your entities 2. DAO's for each entity/tabl ...

I've been thinking of adding a section on the site which will be for quick solutions to every day problems that people might have. These solutions can be in the form of a howto, tip, a pre-baked function/method, etc. Members can vote ...

I was taught at my first job that whenever you check for nulls or equality, you should reverse it so it looks like: [code] int x = 10; if(10 == x) { } User user = null; if(null == user) { } [/code] Reason being was that ...

So I finally took the plunge and migrated over all the discussions on csharpfriends.com If you encounter any issues with the migration, please post them here. I have locked all older discussions since they do not follow the question a ...

I've worked at quite a few places and most employers unfortunately don't put allot of emphasis on a quality keyboard. What is your favorite keyboard, and why exactly do you prefer your keyboard over others? Obviously this keyboard sho ...

So I want to branch out and from my M$ background and get into python (it seems to be all the rage these days). I basically want to branch out into lamp a little, and python really seems to have picked up some [url=http://www.joestump.ne ...

So I just rolled out the ability for people to delete (soft-delete internally) their own answers. (note: any points gained/lossed by this delete will not be reflected until a point roll-up occurs, and that won't occur until I write that st ...

So I just hacked together the User Activity stream section on your profile pages, on the top of your profile page you will see a link labelled 'Activity'. [url=http://www.debugging.com/salman?prt=5]example of my activity stream[/url] ...

I am looking for feedback regarding the sites layout (yes debugging.com!). If you had the key's to the site (err, ftp password), what would you do differently? What do you find confusing that can be simplified?

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It seems the regular method of getting a visitors ipaddress doesn't work on rackspace cloud sites. I track IP on user interaction with the site (questions/answers/comments/voting/etc) and just looking at the db tells me everyone is on th ...