Troubleshooting HttpWebRequest connection timeout. (Part 2)

05. March 2010 Uncategorized 0
Check out Part One. Unfortunately, sometime Monday a user called up with the same problem.  Prices were STILL coming back $0.  So back to the drawing board. One thing that bugged me in this process was trying to line up my normal log file with the trace file, especially since the trace file did not ...

Troubleshooting HttpWebRequest connection timeout. (Part 1)

05. March 2010 Uncategorized 0
A couple weeks ago I started getting some panicked customers.  They were telling me that on piece of software that fetched prices, all their prices were coming back $0.  At first I wasn’t too concerned.  The first calls came in the middle of a hiccup on the network where the web service I used to ...

The question seldom asked

22. February 2010 Uncategorized 0
In my years of development, I’ve moved from a more “code monkey” position to one with more responsibilities.  When I first got in the game of professional development, I didn’t know coding styles or best practices etc.  I was a low level guy on a big team.  I was told to add functionality to our ...

Goodbye Funnydawg

28. January 2010 Uncategorized 0
I just switched hosting providers.  I had been on Funnydawg for a couple months.  I found Funnydawg when I was working on a site for a non-profit.  I needed something quick, easy, not long term and most of all cheap.  They fit most of these parameters.  I got my site up and running really quick. ...

Named Parameters and Unit Testing

22. January 2010 Uncategorized 0
I’m a bit of what you might call a “late adopter.” I run from ‘bleeding edge technology.’ I finally upgraded from XP-SP2 about a month ago (made the jump to W7.) Just upgraded It’s Greek To Me from VB5 & Access to .Net 3.5 & SQL Compact. And I’m finally getting around to using .Net ...

What was I thinking? — A case for code reviews

21. January 2010 Uncategorized 0
At my 8-5 job, I’m the only Windows developer we have. I have ported an existing old app from VB6 to .Net and then maintained that app for the past 18 months. Today we’re working on some major refactoring that requires me to pull out chunks and make libraries (instead of a large Winform application.) ...

It’s Not My Fault — StyleCop and the Default C# Class

12. January 2010 Uncategorized 0
A while back, I was turned on to StyleCop FxCop’s little brother for ensuring coding styles are maintained. I’ve used it some to clean up my code. Since I’ve been working alone, I haven’t really had any Coding Standards that I live by, other than “Doing what I want.” The problem is what I wanted ...

Embed NHibernate.cfg.xml

08. January 2010 Uncategorized 0
I’ve got some code I wrote that will take a language independent output, and convert it to the desired language (e.g. English or French.) For the longest time, I used this block of code inside my main assembly. However, as functionality increased, users wanted this same information on an intranet website. This caused me to ...

Installer Fun

31. December 2009 Uncategorized 0
I typed up a rather long rant about how much I hate dealing with installers. There were a few features that I was lamenting not being easy and affordable. Then, as is often the case with me, my rant proved to be a humbling experience as I realized I was doing something wrong. What started ...

More 64-bit fun

30. December 2009 Uncategorized 0
Earlier, I wrote about the “strange” error I was getting while trying to run XUnit on my project. I just got another error that troubled me. It’s Greek To Me uses a 3rd party DLL that handles converting from trial to full version. It’s not a .Net DLL, so I have to use it as ...