WTF: November 09

by alski 25. November 2009 16:50
In a “QI” format this time. Spot the problem in the following code. 1 point for the correct problem. -5 points for going for the obvious mistake. 2 points for the correct solution.   P.S. No its not my code        &nbs... [More]

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Syntax for XML query in SQL

by alski 10. September 2009 13:39
Use the following SELECT Doc.value('data((/OrganisationAccountOpeningForm/KYCCustomer/EntryDate)[1])','datetime') or syntactically SELECT <XML Column Name>.value('data((/<XPATH>)[<1-based index into possible values returned>])','... [More]

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WPF Font Rendering

by alski 3. June 2009 22:04
One of the reasons I’ve been avoiding using WPF is for its difficulties in matching the look and feel of an application to the OS. When WPF first came out I opened up a Window, added some text and then tried to get it display in Tahoma, 8.25pt. After a couple of hours of hair pulling I reali... [More]

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WTF!

by alski 21. May 2009 12:15
I've just seen some of the worst code of my life... fortunately it was from an AutoGenerated application. Lets start with this pValue = Utility.GetParam("issue_id");Response_issue_id.Value = pValue; if(Session["UserID"]!=null) pValue = Session["... [More]

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LinqToSQL:Alternative to mocking the Db

by alski 30. April 2009 16:32
One of the really nice things about LinqToSQL is how simple it makes it to produce a new database. It fact it's so easy you can produce a real DB with less effort than a Mock'd one. I'm sure this has to be bad in some way, but I've no idea what that is yet. I'll need to t... [More]

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Improving my Test driven development

by alski 24. April 2009 21:22
I’ve just put a new system live, that I’ve been developing over the past few weeks. Basically its a document approval system. One set of users fill in a form, more users approve or reject it, finally one team signs it off and takes the document to the next system. Very simple. I s... [More]

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Have language features changed the way we work for the better?

by alski 20. April 2009 18:32
Craig Murphy dropped a little coding challenge on his blog the other day. This prompted me to write the responses as below. I’ve tried to target each one towards using a particular technology as the framework has developed. Have a look and tell me which is your preferred answer, or propose a new o... [More]

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Querying LDAP with multiple domains

by alski 31. March 2009 16:48
I'm trying to query an ActiveDirectory but at my current client site, I have a problem. There's a few. The client has previously migrated their DC from XPERT to EUROPE, and now they've bought a division of another company and added that in as well. As a result the default DC only suppl... [More]

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Proxy authentication with retry

by alski 4. February 2009 19:55
Need to talk through a proxy? Try this. You'll probably want to refactor in a factory method to allow the correct creation and re-creation of the WebRequest. Note that attempt one uses the default proxy with Windows authentication parameters, subsequent attempts ask for a user name and pa... [More]

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One for James - where or join on

by alski 29. December 2008 17:26
Must be about a month ago now, myself and James were trying to work out the difference between select * from a inner join b on a.x = b.y and a.z = az and select * from a inner join b on a.x = b.y where a.z = az Thing is we couldn't find a difference and thought it may even assist in the sql ... [More]

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