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November 2006
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Claiming dibs on a reinvented term (PONO)
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– I've been doing a lot more .NET lately, and while doing that, I've been evaluating a lot of different architectures and patterns. During my career, I've done mainly Delphi and Java, with some side jaunts into less travelled paths (e.g. MUMPS, Intermec, etc.). One thing that I have definitely learned ...
October 2006
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Delphi Informant articles released
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– David Riggs, the Editor of the Delphi Informant, has given me permission to publish my old articles and editorials. He was even kind enough to provide the type-set copies as Word documents. We'll see how good the conversion from Word to HTML works. The articles can be found - strangely enough - on ...
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Delphi Informant articles released
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– David Riggs, the Editor of the Delphi Informant, has given me permission to publish my old articles and editorials. He was even kind enough to provide the type-set copies as Word documents. We'll see how good the conversion from Word to HTML works. The articles can be found - strangely enough - on ...
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Miser's Maxims
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– I've developed a series of sayings that have evolved over time. I thought I'd share them here. I think it's safe to just post them without explanation, as they are meant to promote thought. Everything is easy when all you're doing is drawing circles and squares. It takes 3 times to perfect ...
September 2006
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Online, shareable calendar
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– After reading Joel's article on Airset, I thought I'd give it a try. Normally, I am not a fan of web applications. However, this web application is incredibly well done. The GUI is rather impressive, with wizards, dialogs, menus, drop downs, and the like. It still feels nothing like the ...
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Code smell
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– I've spent a lot of time here at my current place advocating refactoring. The concept of "code smell" is one that continually comes up. My esteemed colleague, Rich Werning, just came up with "Rich's ultimate code smell test". One simple question: if the project you are working on was to be released ...
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COM Interop follow-up
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– As a follow up from my post yesterday, I have some work-arounds to get me past the problem. I still don't have the ultimate answer for why Math.Log(0.0) throws an exception only when called from COM interop, but I can at least move forward again. I started out by changing the actual code in Lucene ...
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When Interop goes bad
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– It seems that COM interop isn't always a good thing. I have a problem that I don't have a solution for right now, so if you have any feedback, I'd sure appreciate hearing it. I wrote a wrapper around Lucene.Net to provide simple API access to some very basic operations (index, search, delete) that ...
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When Interop goes bad
Dan Miser
– It seems that COM interop isn't always a good thing. I have a problem that I don't have a solution for right now, so if you have any feedback, I'd sure appreciate hearing it. I wrote a wrapper around Lucene.Net to provide simple API access to some very basic operations (index, search, delete) that ...
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Making .NET classes visible via COM Interop
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– When creating .NET classes that will be accessible via COM Interop, you need to be sure to add a default constructor to the class. If you don't, regasm will end up generating the tlb without the CanCreate flag for that class, and therefore, when registering the tlb, those classes will not be ...
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Highlighting max value in Excel
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– Since I'm a programmer, I don't always keep up to date on other areas of software because it's always more fun to write your own tools. :-) I can find my way around Excel some, but I am not exactly a power user. I had a need to highlight the maximum cell value in a column today, and it turned out to ...
August 2006
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Lucene.Net
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– I've been tasked with adding text searching through documents to our application. Since we need to support multiple databases, I didn't want to use the native DBMS indexing options. Looking around, I came across Lucene.Net. It is an open source port of the Java version of Lucene, which is a ...
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COMTrace
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– I came across a link to COMTrace from Scott Hanselman. This tool allows for interception and logging of COM traffic. I just tried it out, and it mostly works on some of my more complex MIDAS applications. Granted, it is far from perfect (e.g. I needed to start a new process multiple times before I ...
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COMTrace
Dan Miser
– I came across a link to COMTrace from Scott Hanselman. This tool allows for interception and logging of COM traffic. I just tried it out, and it mostly works on some of my more complex MIDAS applications. Granted, it is far from perfect (e.g. I needed to start a new process multiple times before I ...
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Oracle parameters
Dan Miser
– Oracle is much more stringent with parameter bindings than other DBMS (e.g. MSSQL). For example, take the following statement "UPDATE MYTABLE SET FILENAME = :to WHERE FILENAME = :from". Pretty innocent, and the same query works on MSSQL. The problem is when you bind the parameters and execute the ...
