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We are looking to hire good developers

Notches is hiring developers . We’re looking to bring on developers to be part of the core engineering team. We want people that can contribute to the product in a myriad of ways beyond coding. We want people who can ask the tough questions and challenge us. We want people who are not afraid to take...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-12-2008
Microsoft Silverlight

A lot of people are very excited about Silverlight , the technology that was formerly known as WPF/E. Jesse says it will give Flash a real run for its money because of a better video story (emphasis in original). Unlike Flash, Silverlight (the new name) will support DRM, it supports the industry standard...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-25-2007
SubSonic

We've been using SubSonic lately, which I first bookmarked from Scott's post . Essentially, the project is an implementation of the ActiveRecords pattern from Ruby on Rails in .NET. Or as the authors describe it, , "a toolset that helps a website build itself". I'm using it on a project I'm working on...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-22-2007
JSON and XML

Back at the PDC, I mentioned that Microsoft chose JSON over XML in Atlas, its AJAX framework. The debate has reared its head again recently, prompted largely by Tim Bray's post . Tim says that JSON is great for its single intended purpose, "to put structs on the wire." Dare, who used to work on the XML...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-05-2007
The Prevalence and Danger of SQL Injection

Michael Sutton looks at the prevalence of SQL injection vulnerabilities ( via Bruce Schneier ). He tested 708 different servers and found verbose SQL errors on 80 of them (11.3%) - numbers that are not, as Michael says, surprising but are certainly sobering. Michael acknowledges that his method is imperfect...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-12-2006
notch.es is hiring

Notch.es is seeking ninjas . If you're a rock star, give Corey a call. I'm reposting the two job descriptions here. Don’t want to spend the next six months working under florescent lights on a corporate PC with no Internet access fixing someone else’s five year old code? Would you rather help build the...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-29-2006
ADO.NET vNext CTP (Aug 2006) available

Microsoft has released the first CTP for ADO.NET vNext which implements their vision for an Entity Framework to simplify data access. The ADO.NET Entity Framework supports Object Relational Mapping scenarios using ADO.NET Entities, in this build you can: Query of persistent Entities using LINQ to Entities...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-05-2006
Nullable Value Types and the Null Coalescing Operator

Scott recently discovered one of my favorite syntactic niceties in C# 2.0, the Null Coalescing Operator. This operator allows you to return the left side of the statement if it is not null, otherwise return what is on the right. In other words, instead of writing code like this: if (o != null ) return...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-08-2006

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