Sarp Erdag’s Blog

I have been using Ubuntu 8.04 for about a month now, together with my old and faithful Windows XP. After some crazy virus/malware infection on XP, I was even more hooked to Ubuntu. Although my lack of experience on Linux systems slows me down, I have been able to do pretty much evertyhing I needed [...]

While being busy with some Flex and ASP.NET development, I decided to share the very simple way to communicate your Flex project with a .NET solution.
The communication between the two platforms can be through several different ways. In my post, I will be writing about calling an HttpHandler from inside Flex. This method has the [...]

The Database Engine Tuning Advisor is a great tool that helps you create indexes based on query usages on your SQL databases. It basically uses a trace file to find the most queried tables and query types and gives you a list of recommended indexes to apply on the tables. It may not be a [...]

An excellent article on 15seconds cleared my indecision about using stored procedures or not in my next projects. My mind was so much hooked on using stored procedures that I was about to vomit when I saw the java persistence API. As a C# developer, I tried to find the .NET framework alternative of a [...]

I came upon a very annoying error while trying to build my first AIR / Flex application on Adobe Flex Builder 3 on my Windows machine. The error is: Could not resolve <mx:Script> to a component implementation.
I was completely sure that everything was fine with my code and after some googling I found out that [...]

I spent today, attending RiaTalks which has been a really nice day of seminars focusing on Rich Internet Applications, at Bahcesehir University. Although the general organization was not perfect, I believe the speakers and the followers were able to communicate well with each other.
There were two different conference rooms assigned for the event. One room [...]

I am so much in love with jQuery that I cannot think a web developer who does not use it.
Today’s web applications require simple yet highly usable interfaces and a high level of usability. And you cannot achieve a good usability if you are not doing any ajax calls, or simple client side components. The [...]

Since the last week I have been reading and learning about Microsoft’s new extension to the .NET framework: LINQ that is the abbreviation for “Language Integrated Queries”. At first, everything LINQ provided seemed extremely appealing because using LINQ really let’s you write 70% less code. Here is an example:
Let’s say I have two tables in [...]