Enable/Disable FusionLog Powershell script

November 11, 2009 11:01 | Programming | No comments

If you use Windows and don’t use Powershell you should. Really you should. It’s great for getting all the little repetitive things out of the way.
Like for example enabling/disabling your Fusion Log every time you need to figure out why assembly binding has gone wrong. So here you go. Just put [...]

Error Handling and the Message Repackaging Anti-Pattern

January 16, 2009 23:28 | Programming | 2 comments

I currently have an interesting responsibility at work.  I am functioning as the manager and single-point-of-contact for a team in India working on imporving the codebase for one of our more important ASP.Net sites.  I know what you’re thinkin.  Did I say interesting?  I meant infuriating.  At the very least I should get a good [...]

Oooh! I Wrote Something for Upper Management

May 5, 2008 19:25 | Programming | 1 comment

Today I was asked to write up a short justification for a rewrite of a godawful piece of software that I have been complaining about to anyone who would listen.  Yay!  Inspired by essays I have been reading by Jim Shore I might have been a bit too agressive.  But here’s the final(?) version:
Proposal for a Rewrite of the {Program Name} Software
The purpose of software is to make our [...]

Let's try to start this nice and simple

May 3, 2008 03:25 | Music, Programming | No comments

So since I registered this blog name I have proven empirically that I am incapable of actually writing to it so I figure I’ll start simple – with a list.  And – because this is what i’ve been reading and thinking of a lot lately – its going to be programming related.  Weeee.   So here [...]