NAnt (for those of you who don’t know) is the .NET version of Ant. It’s very similar to Ant, but has some nice extensions, like xmlpoke, which replaces text in an XML file at the location specified by an XPath expression. I’ve used xmlpoke a couple different times, usually to meddle with web.config but [...]
This morning I spent some time playing with WSE, .NET and Java. I knew Fiddler could listen in on conversations between IE and the world, but I never was able to get it to listen to conversations between me and well, me (ie: localhost). Turns out, according to the well named help page, that
“….NET will [...]
NHibernate 1.0 Released
The first stable .NET port of Hibernate was released recently, it is ‘comparable’ to version 2.1 of Hibernate. (categories: hibernate nhibernate opensource orm )
At the start of this year I worked with some guys at eBay to further develop their code samples. Some, but not all of the twelve examples I wrote went live in the recently launched Community Codebase. You can download all the Java examples (of which I wrote three) or browse the Subversion repository. [...]
Spent some time today buried in IIS trying to figure out why an ASP.NET application would throw the following error message for every single page that existed in an application within a website:
Server Error in ‘/myapp’ Application.
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The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could [...]
If you’ve peeked at my resume recently, you may have noticed the work I did for a division of the company I work called Titleist Performance Institute. The institute was recently written up in Forbes (online) by John Steinbreder, but he only mentioned the website in passing. You can read more about it [...]
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· Paul Graham on what the Bubble got right: “… what would be wrong would be that how one presented oneself counted more than the quality of one’s ideas. That’s the problem with formality. Dressing up is not so much bad in itself. The problem is the receptor it binds to: dressing up [...]
Joe pointed out that the C# PGP decryption code that I wrote could be better; specifically I should be checking the xExitCode property of the Process instance and the code would also be better served if I made certain that I disposed of the Process instance by calling the Close() method when I’m done using [...]
You all read the the ‘Conflicting mindsets of C# vs. Java‘ weblog post right? And you all noticed that the guys running the Lucene.NET project on sourceforge closed up shop, took all their toys and went on home right? I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that they’re related.
The way I [...]
· How do know if an online business is reputable? Use the Better Business Bureau search. Sometimes I do a search on google using the business name as the keyword appending “scam” or “sucks”. Epinions works too.
· How to convince your boss that you need an office with a window
· An interesting perspective on the [...]
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