Salman Ahmed

yellow screen of death

Salman Ahmed — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:38:44 GMT

This is for all those yellow moments....

Issue #1

alas, debugging.com is mine ...

Salman Ahmed — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:55:33 GMT

After many months of back and forth emails with the previous owner, http://www.debugging.com is finally mine.
I am thinking of a programmer themed comic, while I'm certainly no artist I can draw a stick figure or two :)
I haven't mapped out all the different characters yet completly, but I do have a good idea of where things should be headed (at least in the beginning).

I hope to get my first 'scene' out by next week so stay tuned ...

Free C# Book

Salman Ahmed — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:19:00 GMT

Ok so I have been busy writing and formatting (for the web) my C# Book along with my HTML Book. I'm still in the process of uploading all the examples and demos so be patient until that gets up.

I'm also thinking of creating a online repository for code snippets where you can login and store all your code snippets online, I already have the backend code that could handle this (with tagging etc) its just a matter of be getting a nice and simple design built.

The goal is to make something simliar to w3schools, but with more microsoft oriented material and references.

Happy programming!

Design UI first, then code

Salman Ahmed — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:02:00 GMT

I find it hard sometimes to continue my development momentum when my applications user interface is not developed nicely.

On the other hand, if I have a UI then has all the elements of the application, I find that I am much more excited about the project. I think the main motivation is that I have a clear picture of where I'm headed, and I already have the end goal in plain view. Having the end result infront of me allows me to reverse engineer how I want to go about designing the application also.

Another benifit to developing with the UI designed, is that you are forced to really think through how your application is going to work. Reason being is that you won't be able to even comeup with a mockup of your design unless and until you have a good understanding of your sites functionality.

Downside? Unless your a designer, your design bill might be a little higher than normal since there are bound to be a few tweaks to the layout unless you really hammered the design phase (since the design phase is the 1st step in this backwards approach).

Interestingly enough, the people at 37signals have a little ebook out that goes over this approach in a little more detail: https://gettingreal.37signals.com/

I'm not really a geek

Salman Ahmed — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:30:00 GMT

Greetings folks,

Just trying to get myself started with my new fancy blog! Let me make it known, I am not a geek! lol

Anyhow, a little background about myself. I started web development back in the 'classic' ASP days, later moved on the ASP.NET the moment the betas were out. In April of 2002 I launched my own community site http://www.csharpfriends.com. I have worked for a few companies over the years, my last stint I was on the eCommerce team (B2B).

So I hope to provide something positive to the GWB readers out there!

Intellisense for SQL Server

Salman Ahmed — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:44:00 GMT

If you haven't heard yet, red-gate has released a FREE release of its new product, SQL Prompt. You can download a fully functional version with no restrictions up until september 1st 2006.

http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Prompt/index.htm

I always find myself jumping between EM and query analyzer trying to get information on what datatype I used for a particular db column (actually now I just open up the treeview in QA but that was before I discovered that hehe).

Anyhow, its something to checkout and it is a very useful tool especially when building stored procedures and the like.