I love to challenge my knowledge on a regular basis, just to keep up with the technology and to keep my mind flexible and adaptive. As I am quite certain I am not the only one who likes to do this, I thought it might be nice to put up a page where I will cultivate […]
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Translation goodness with symfony2
As the title would suggest this entry could be about the really nice translation mechanism provided by the symfony2 PHP framework (See http://www.symfony.com/ ), but….. it isn’t…. Well, technically it’s not quite about the translation mechanism itself, it’s about the ease you can use a cookie to switch locales ( and languages as far as […]
Using MVC 4 DisplayModes to achieve per ...
One of the new features of the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 4 framework is the concept of display modes. By default the framework uses the display mode functionality to “dynamically” select the mobile version of a view ( when present ), when you’re site is viewed on a mobile device. In short this means it will […]
Passed the 70-595 ( MS BizTalk 2010 ) ex...
As you might have noticed, It’s been a while since my previous post. This is caused foremost by the busy schedule I’m having the last couple of months, and when I get home from work, I usually just want to relax a bit. ( and forget to post here 😉 ) But… in the meantime […]
BizTalk WCF Send/Receive port connection...
The last few days I’ve been hunting down a problem which is quite common under users of WCF. It seems WCF will only honor a specified amount of concurrent connections ( at default this will be 10 concurrent connections ) before ‘freezing’. The most common causes of this ‘freeze’ are : forgetting to Close() the client […]
SQL load image from file
Once in a while my colleagues ask me to change a jpeg image stored in a databaserecord, and every single time they ask I need to search all my sql files to find the query needed to do this. Maybe I’m not the only one who needs this, that’s why I’m posting my solution here… […]
Passed the Microsoft 70-235 exam!!
Although I’ve been working with Microsoft BizTalk on a daily basis for about 5 years now, I didn’t take the microsoft exam for BizTalk until last friday. I’ve had the courses years ago, but I haven’t had the time ( I know it’s a lame excuse 🙂 ) to take the exam. Last monday morning […]
SSIS Lookup component is case sensitiv
The other day, i was working on a new SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) package to transform data from a production database to an analysis database. It worked quite well, i thought, everything seemed to work as it was supposed to when testing with a subset of data. So next up, live usage. And that […]
default(T) vs null
When programming in C#, we often test if a variable is used in the following way: if (var != null) { // do the right thing } else { // fallback or raise exception } This works well if the variable is a nullable type or a reference type, but when the variable is of […]
Essential tools for .net development
Every developer has the need to use good tools from time to time. It makes the developer’s job a lot easier. In my experience as a .NET developer these are the really essential tools every (.NET) developer should have ( and use of course ;)). Red-Gate’s .NET Reflector ( http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/ ). This tool is in […]