Category Archives: Coding - Page 2

ASP.NET MVC Magical Error Logging with ELMAH

Posted by on 8 May, 2011 8 comments | Views: 4,675

If you aren’t using ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) you should be - http://code.google.com/p/elmah/ It’s the best thing since sliced bread for logging ASP.NET errors with practically zero effort. It basically plugs into the ASP.NET pipeline and logs all unhandled exceptions thrown and …

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Triply now supports Facebook Places Checkins

Posted by on 4 May, 2011 No comments | Views: 73

I’ve just published online the support for Facebook Places Checkins in Triply . This means that now you can log in and work with checkins either from Foursquare or Facebook Places. What Triply really needs now is a good first pass …

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Introducing Triply for Foursquare

Posted by on 2 May, 2011 1 comment | Views: 178

During my trip to Dubrovnik last week whilst checking in on Foursquare an idea struck me – can’t I use the Foursquare checkin history and checkin comments to document the places I visit and also my route. This is how …

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Storing Date and Time in UTC and the definition “Today”

Posted by on 4 April, 2011 6 comments | Views: 537

Storing date and times in UTC on the server side is all nice and dandy, however there are a few gotchas, one of which the definition of “Today” when you a dealing with time zones. Say we are dealing with …

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PicasaUploader 0.5.4 released

Posted by on 7 February, 2011 No comments | Views: 92

I have just released a new version of my PicasaWeb Uploader tool. This is a maintenance release to fix issues with large video uploads and to port to the new GData API.

Eclipse Colour Theme Extractor Tool

Posted by on 23 January, 2011 2 comments | Views: 220

I have published my little tool that extracts just the Eclipse colour theme preferences out of the Eclipse exported preferences here. Usage is pretty simple – point it to an Eclipse preferences file and it will spit out the theme, …

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Custom model binding using IModelBinder in ASP.NET MVC – two gotchas

Posted by on 3 November, 2010 2 comments | Views: 3,601

There are a few blog posts around the web regarding ASP.NET MVC custom model binding, but there are two key pieces of information missing. Just a quick intro – to implement custom model binding in ASP.NET MVC we need to …

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How to import a database schema into SQL Server Express with Visual Studio

Posted by on 22 September, 2010 No comments | Views: 1,309

Today I needed to import my SQL Server schema into a SQL Server Express instance on a different machine. I only have Visual Studio on this machine and no SQL Server Management Studio installed, so it took me a bit …

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Team Leading – First Thoughts and Observations

Posted by on 14 September, 2010 1 comment | Views: 252

Introduction In March this year I joined IBM as a Software Engineer (Graduate). For my huge disappointment, even though I came with several years of development experience, they put me in Test. I wasn’t simply assigned to any test phase, but …

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IBM

Posted by on 2 March, 2010 13 comments | Views: 530

I started at IBM UK (Hursley Labs) on Monday but it is only today that I got my permanent badge with all the security clearance added for the ultra confidential work I will be doing. One of the goodies when …

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