Note: Three days until our 10th wedding anniversary

Ok, good stuff today:

Derik Whittaker talks about The Shelf Life of an Application.  I’ve still got one data-entry/reporting application I wrote (I led the team and developed much of the code) in 2000 that’s still in use.  I feel really good about it, especially since the app is solid, even with 7-years of data in it and the users love it.  The 16-bit app I wrote in 2004 is still being used too.

An interesting article (Don’t Be in Awe of “Enterprise” Solutions) that discusses “Enterprise” applications.  Those that know me understand why I find just a bit of humor in this.  I tend to agree about the stuff coming from the P&P group.  I think they have some good ideas, but the execution sucks.  For the most part, the things I’ve looked at have indeed been “mostly over-abstracted, over-architected crap.”

Dave has a nice write-up on ArgumentHelper.  We’ve been using this on our project since Will (yea, the same one that Dave refers to) joined the project a few weeks ago.  I can say that ArgumentHelper has been a nice addition to our project (and to my toolkit).  Unfortunately, Will just rolled off my project and is on to new and better things (me jealous?  hmmm….just a bit maybe).

ScottGu’s LINQ to SQL (Part 1) is on my “need to read list.”.