dev

I was troubleshooting a bug for the past couple days in which all session data was being lost upon postback. At first, it appeared that certain objects were being reset or nulled upon specific events being raised. Then, some preusal of my debug logs showed that the User was being reinitialized between every click. My [...]

Tomorrow is the end of the Development cycle for my (big, fancy, secret) project at work. I ran into some interesting complications and learned a few things in the process:
1. How to write a Windows Service
2. Windows Services don’t like regular winform timers, you have to use a System.Timers.Timer(). Otherwise, it’ll compile and run, but [...]

I handed in a design document for the next release of the (big, secret, fancy) project I’m working on. The boss wanted to know why there were no “cute pictures”, meaning Visio flowcharts. The answer was simply that based on the previous release’s documentation, we know that the documentation will change so wildly that there’s [...]

Sunday at 3AM, I finished some bugfixes and pushed code to test. Apparently Test was unprepared for it and flew off the handle as a result.
Tester Lead: “There was a code drop at 3 AM last night!”
Dev Mgr: “So?”
Tester Lead: “Don’t you think that’s a little unusual?”
Dev Mgr: “Well, try as I might, I just [...]

There must be a clause somewhere that I missed during my customary thorough examination of the EULA… Free? Professional? Maybe it’s just because it’s Beta 2… dunno. But sweet. Google “Orcas” to find it. Dev tools ftw.

Well, my existing blog just isn’t making money (And officially, let’s say I want to be part of a community), so I figured I’d start one on Lockergnome, despite it running Wordpress, a blogging platform created in PHP by open-source hippies. But we won’t talk about that. I will continue running my existing blog on [...]