SPSS .NET wrapper assembly goes open source
I wrote a managed C# wrapper for the spssio32.dll library that comes with SPSS. It exposes most of the functionality of spssio32.dll for .NET use. All the memory management required…
MyNHibernateContrib gets an example web app
My open-source MyNHibernateContrib project, which adds support for generics, two-way collections and nullables to NHibernate, finally got a decent example web app. It is very small (as good example apps…
EMAR gets a new name, prepares for LGPL
The EMAR project that I have been working on for about four years is finally getting a (decent) new name. NAssess. This is in preparation for releasing EMAR with the…
Getting Ruby on Rails 1.0 running on Gentoo
After ignoring the advice to use Ruby 1.8.2 instead of the more recent 1.8.3, I got the “uninitialized constant Mysql” error and decided to downgrade. With Gentoo, this was very…
Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence Program
It turns out that the 30+ bugs and suggestions that I filed through MSDN Product Feedback during Visual Studio 2005’s beta cycle won me what looks like an acrylic trophy.…
How I find performance bottlenecks in my ASP.NET projects
Have you ever heard of a product called Ants Profiler by Red Gate? An absolutely phenomenal product for profiling .NET code. At the time of this writing, it runs at…
FreeTextBox 3.1.1 without aspnet_client directory
I have already blogged about how to get FreeTextBox 3.0.x working without an aspnet_client subfolder with its hundreds of files. FreeTextBox has seen several revisions since that post, and amazingly…
Gaining total control of URL rewriting for ASP.NET/IIS (or mono)
More often lately I have wanted to handle "nice" URLs in my web application by forwarding those requests on to their actual URLs. ASP.NET offers HttpContext.RewritePath that you can use…
Microsoft 2005 Launch events in Orem and SLC areas
The local .NET User’s Group here in Utah County (UCNUG) and Microsoft are hosting/sponsoring three upcoming events. I’ll be hosting/volunteering at both of them myself. Here’s a little piece for…
Generics and nullables in NHibernate
This is one of the more frequently requested features for NHibernate. Rightly so, for those who are using .NET 2.0. Once you havegenerics and nullable types, it is hard to…