Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

One of the greatest benefits of using a code generation tool like CodeSmith comes not from generating methods and objects the first time, but when you need to change that code.  Using CodeSmith to regenerate template-based blocks of code is potential... [More]

Clive Thompson wrote a thought-provoking article for the September issue of Wired titled "Your Outboard Brain Knows All."  The focus was on our increasing reliance on the silicon-based devices that expand our intelligence and whether or not that was ... [More]

An old Sealy mattress commercial theme "It's a Sealy Posturepedic morning!  Yeah!" inspires this post title, one of the popular culture TV clips used in "Being There," probably my all-time favorite movie.  "I like to watch."... [More]

I know I should be able to crank out an instance of a custom Community Server Data Provider in my sleep, but I'm a wuss and find it tedious, even though we're only talking about two lines of code.  I seem to have to type those two lines pretty freque... [More]

I create a lot of resources.xml and controlpanelresources.xml entries.  Adding a Community Server resources file entry is not a time-consuming process, but the CodeSmith ActiveSnippet I created makes it even less time-consuming.  CodeSmith Activ... [More]

What a fun night at the Vermont .NET Users Group tonight!  And it was very informative, too.  Seven of us featured our favorite developer tools, with presentations covering XMLSpy (very slick xpath auto-generation), Code Charge Studio (crea... [More]

ActiveSnippets are a new feature in CodeSmith 4.0 and much like Visual Studio 2005 snippets.  The CodeSmith 4.0 Press Release describes ActiveSnippets with, "Imagine Visual Studio 2005 snippets, but with the full power of CodeSmith available to ... [More]

I'm on the docket with other developers for next Monday's Vermont .NET Users Group meeting where I get to demonstrate CodeSmith for 20 minutes.  It'll be a great show with several local developers showing their favorite development tools.  As pa... [More]

This isn't a newsy bit on CodeSmith, though there is a pretty new 3.2.5 version of CodeSmith available if you're still using 3.2.4 or earlier.  This post is more an example to serve as a nudgie for .NET developers who may not think in terms of Code G... [More]

Yeah, you heard me right.  DotText.  It's still a classic, ya know.  It was two blog sites ago for me (CS 1.1<--CS 1.0<--DotText 95), but I still fire it up in Visual Studio occasionally because its great code and I find it useful.I w... [More]