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When is software done?

The company I'm working for at the moment is suffering from a bad case of "everyone's a software engineer". The reasons why this is such a bad idea are all over the net, so rather than sit quietly, content with my enlightened understanding...

Published 11-10-2008 3:51 AM by Ben Scott

Pair Programming - Day Two

Our pairing approach was to enforce pairs between the hours of 10am and 4pm, with an hour for lunch in between. I'm an early starter, so at about 7:30am I started working through the list of things I noted down from yesterday. I refactored method...

Published 05-28-2008 9:56 PM by Ben Scott

Filed under: Agile

Pair Programming - Day One

I've always been keen to try pair programming on a project but haven't had the chance until now. Our project is a "waterfall" project that employs a number of agile practices, but this is a big leap toward a much more agile approach...

Published 05-27-2008 8:50 PM by Ben Scott

Filed under: Agile

My new run

Just discovered www.mapmyrun.com. River Run

Published 05-16-2008 11:53 PM by Ben Scott

MSDTC, .Net 2.0, DB2 and Heuristic Processing continued...

In my previous post , I mentioned how to change to the OLEDB connection pooling defaults after receiving the heuristic processing error below: [IBM][CLI Driver][DB2] SQL0998N Error occurred during transaction or heuristic processing. Reason Code = "16"...

Published 07-16-2007 5:39 AM by Ben Scott

Changing the OLEDB_SERVICES Registry Key in Vista

The change to the OLEDB connection pooling defaults between ADO 2.0 and 2.1 has been causing the following exception in the application I've been working on [IBM][CLI Driver][DB2] SQL0998N Error occurred during transaction or heuristic processing...

Published 07-16-2007 3:45 AM by Ben Scott

Upgrade to Community Server 2007

This site has just been upgraded to Community Server 2007. If this post works, then the core now contains the add-ins for the MetaBlog API that allow posting from Microsoft Live Writer. The upgrade process went smoothly. I only had to run a single database...

Published 04-21-2007 6:14 PM by Ben Scott

Getting uTorrent to work with Microsoft Live OneCare on Vista

I've just spent 4 hours trying to get open a port for uTorrent to up my download speed. Now, I'm no network engineer but I understand enough to configure port forwarding. My environment consists of an ADSL 2+ router and a Netgear wireless router. I configured...

Published 02-24-2007 7:59 PM by Ben Scott

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 has been officially released. Source code for the Control Toolkit, client-side JavaScript library and the server controls has also been released.

Published 01-25-2007 11:54 PM by Ben Scott

Hiding a Row in a GridView

To hide an entire row in a GridView control consists of two steps. First, you need to override the OnRowCreated event of the GridView. This event has a GridViewEventArgs parameter that will give you access to the underlying Row.DataItem, enabling you...

Published 01-22-2007 2:29 AM by Ben Scott

Running IBM DB2 9 Express Edition on Vista

Although the installation went smoothly (with runas Administrator), there are a number of permissions issues that I have encountered. The one that's really getting to me at the moment is a result of the Visual Studio.NET 2005 DB2 add-in. The error message...

Published 12-17-2006 8:26 PM by Ben Scott

WCF Proxy Generation without Types

On a previous project (.Net 1.1 Web Services) I spent hours if not days manually removing all of the proxy generated types from the Visual Studio.NET generated proxy class in order to use my Data Transfer Objects on the client tier. To the best of my...

Published 12-17-2006 8:21 PM by Ben Scott

Installing Vista RTM on ASUS F3JV

I took the plunge on the weekend and installed Vista Ultimate on my new ASUS F3Jv laptop. The installation went smoothly with no hassles whatsoever. Installing software and finding drivers was a different experience. Some pieces installed, others installed...

Published 11-27-2006 1:30 AM by Ben Scott

ReSharper 2.0.2 Released

JetBrains have released an incremental update to ReSharper for VS.NET 2..3 and 2005. Check out the release notes

Published 11-26-2006 1:54 PM by Ben Scott

Mounting ISO images e.t.c in Vista

I've been using the Virtual CD extensions for Windows XP in order to mount ISO volumes. Needless to say, this doesn't work in Vista. The best alternative I've found is the free CloneDrive by Elby (Elaborate Bytes). It lets you mount most images of CD...

Published 11-25-2006 1:16 AM by Ben Scott

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