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…
one-to-one mapping bug in NHibernate
I just filed a bug with one-to-one mapping using foreign keys with NHibernate that at least affects version 0.9.1 through 1.0.0. If you like one-to-one mappings, please visit the bug,…
Enabling log4net in .NET 2.0
I am just getting into using log4net, and for the most part I like what I see. It works with .NET 2.0, but it has a couple of gotchas that…
Not a fan of scripting languages
Let me first be clear, that I am not a fan of scriptinglanguages. They certainly have their place, but I would neverwrite an entire application with one. I wouldn’t even…