Tightly coupled systems are unmaintainable
Yet another example of why I believe this: Microsoft told me to update to IE7, so I did. To test something in IE6, I’m installing MS Virtual PC 2004 (provided free by MS), and running an image of...
View ArticleServer Application Unavailable, no event log, .NET 2
A perplexing error while setting up my new system: Server Application Unavailable The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the “Refresh”...
View ArticleMigrate PuTTY saved sessions
PuTTY stores its session information in the registry, and there’s no function in PuTTY itself to import/export sessions. This makes moving to a new computer a little sticky. I did some googling and...
View ArticleSetting up a computer for Flash development
There are several tutorials out there on how to do this, but they all differed a little, and figured I might as well note mine. I’m replicating the setup I have at work onto a home computer, so this...
View ArticleSQL Server 2005 doesn’t like bitwise comparison of large numbers
An update trigger using COLUMNS_UPDATED() was failing, and I figured out the problem: Some simple SQL: SELECT CAST(0x0200 as bigint), 0x0200 | 0 SELECT CAST(0x02000 as bigint), 0x02000 | 0 SELECT...
View Articleshibboleth attribute “scope () not accepted” and “value () could not be...
I have a client who acts as a Shibboleth Service Provider (SP), and the corresponding Identity Provider (IdP) needed to update some of their information, so I had to spend a few hours debugging...
View ArticleInstalling VS 2008 and SQL 2008 Express on Windows 7
A new decade means time for a fresh windows install at work. I ran into some trouble with windows 7, visual studio 2008, and SQL 2008 Express. Here’s how I resolved them. Contrary to most things I...
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working with R, postgresql + SSL, and MSSQL
I’ve been able to take a break from my regularly scheduled duties and spend some time working with R. This is a short log of what I did to get it working. The main things I’m looking to do is...
View ArticleDeploying .NET COM objects with MSBuild
At work I’ve been working with a very old classic ASP website, running on a very old hardware. After a few weeks of hacking vbscript, I’m sorely missing C#, and especially unit tests. I feel so exposed...
View ArticleThings I learned when re-learning ASP.NET
ASP.NET has changed dramatically in the past five years. I’ve had the privilege to work on some projects using the newer web stacks, as well as modernize an old project. I’d been away from the...
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