Intentional programming
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Posted February 13th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
This is a great read. It's a really long article but i found it really interesting and continued it to the end (which is very very rare in my case)
It's about Charles Simonyi and what he has been up to in his carreer plus his plans for the future.
Charles Simonyi--Microsoft's former chief architect, the tutelary genius behind its most famous applications, the inventor of the method of writing code that the company's programmers have used for 25 years, and now the proponent of an ambitious...
FTP Server with sql acces
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Posted March 1st, 2006 at 4:36 pm
I have the need to run an ftp server for one of my applications. It is to complement a web application where there is a pretty big datatransfer. Users need to be able to register and upon activation they need to be able to upload movies (20-70MB) to a folder online. These movies need to be made available online and proposed for review to somebody in the company.So far so good. Were it not that we are running IIS Ftp server for the moment who stores it's users in the AD of the server. That is n...
A poor man’s code generation
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Posted March 1st, 2006 at 3:50 pm
There has been a lot of talk about code generation and ORM software around where I was.
I got curious and embarked on a free codegeneration exploration. Being new to the concept of codegeneration my requirements were the following :
It needs to be faster then the dataset generator of visual studio 2005
It needs to support relations
It needs to support stored procedures or at the very least use dynamic query language that uses parameters to set up queries to the database.
It needs to be with a v...
Seems like work isn’t slowing down for the moment
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Posted February 26th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
I thought I was busy before I got this thing on my hand. Now it's even worse. I don't know where to crawl first.
I got my MYOB professional partner subscription last week and am trying to integrate it now in the program I'm writing. And I have to say.. It's not all that hard.. just open the docs and you're good to go.
But what annoys the hell out of me, apart from not being able to run myob on a win2k3 server, is that myob is slow as a dog. A request can easily take up to 30 seconds...
Can’t remember the connection string ?
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Posted January 8th, 2006 at 9:34 am
There is a website out there that remembers them for you. I've used them on multiple occasions because my memory for these things seems to be in need of a reboot
Anyway here's the url : http://www.connectionstrings.com/...
A good url regular expression ?
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admin
Posted January 4th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
I have been looking for a good first layer of validating an url to see if it is valid.
For checking the format of the url it seems to me to be the most logical approach to use regular expressions. Up until now I always discarded them as being to “geeky”, meaning i don't consider it my life's biggest goal to be typing (/?[]\w) all day long (so why did i become a programmer, aaaah yes to make life easier for other people)
Anyway.. to find a good regular expression to that validates urls not ur...
Validation of viewstate failed.
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Posted January 4th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
This happens when you want to enable your security to encrypt your password and enable password retrieval.
If you set your own machinekey.
My fix was in the web.config :
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Webresource.axd. How do I use it ???
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Posted January 4th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Ever since I got my hands on .NET 2.0 I noticed the handler webresource.axd which seemed to provide a similar function as what I was using handlers for. I used handlers in .NET 1.1 and before today also in .NET 2.0 to handle my javascript and css that I need in controls I developped. I mark them before compiling as embedded resource and then later on read them out via reflection and they get served up by the browser.I probably don't have to explain that (as long as your parameters don't change...
A clear explanation of generics in c# 2.0
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Posted January 4th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/05/17/liberty.html?page=2...
MS Antispyware doesn’t do its job
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Posted January 4th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
I had a discussion with my friend Miel (Coolz0r) about spyware and their scanners for it. 6 months ago I did a test of several anti-spyware programs and MS antispyware became the winner. It found the most spyware and what I liked most about it was that it provide everything that Ad-aware and Spybot supplied all together. This and the spynet option. But in 6 months a lot can change and now I have whenU on my machine together with some other heavy duty spyware. More on the reasons for this you...
