Category Archives: Geek
Adventures in networking
So recently decided to change ISPs. My old ISP insisted that i pay for email addresses (~@isps-domain.com) which I don’t want, never wanted and will never ever use. I didn’t see why I should pay a monthly fee for something … Continue reading
Magento 1.6.0 stable
my host runs su<something or other> so I had a bunch of permission problems. What needs doing *************** SETTING PERMISSIONS *************** Setting all folder permissions to 755 Setting all file permissions to 644 Setting pear permissions to 550 The … Continue reading
Pex thing
the Pex puzzle a solution of sorts. You have to write code to mimic a mystery method.
CSLA and nHibernate
For awhile I’ve been trying to integrate Csla and nHibernate. Being new to nHibernate that is where my difficulties lay. However, recentlly I’ve come accross an excellent tutorial by Gabriel Schenker. You can find it here. It was not too … Continue reading
Latitude and Longitude
Bet you’ve always wanted to know what your l&l was! I did. 43.810419,-79.1078669 Get your’s at http://tinygeocoder.com/
Google Chrome License Agreement
Some interesting points in the agreement. Icky bit… 1. Your relationship with Google 1.1 Your use of Google’s products, software, services and web sites (referred to collectively as the “Services” in this document and excluding any services provided to you … Continue reading
CSLA C# FilteredBindingList example – try 2
define the filter… public static bool OnHandFilter(object item, object filter) { bool result = false; if (item != null && filter != null) { int value = 0; int filterValue = 0; bool itemParseStatus = int.TryParse(item); bool filterParseStatus = int.TryParse(filter); … Continue reading
Web site monitoring
The site is now being monitored by Montastic, a free web site monitoring tool. It will send me an email should the site not be reachable. Actually it will cover all the sites on the servers. Presumably if the server … Continue reading
Vista Reliability
The red Xes are all application failures. Debatable whether that really reflects “system reliability”. There are two cases, case one, where you have a perfectly good application that craps out because of system issues – this seems to relate to … Continue reading
More Vista Fun
The red Xs are disruptive shutdowns caused by power failures. This is the reliability chart from my old machine running Vista Business 32bit . I really expected the new machine running Vista 64bit to be the same. Interestingly the less … Continue reading
