by Oliver
23. June 2012 19:26
UPDATE: The SQL Server Browser is actually needed. Don’t know how it worked before without it. See below for instructions. Recently, we tried to setup a failover SQL server instance but couldn’t get out remote web servers to connect to it. The setup of our current live DB server had been done a few...
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by Anton
17. May 2012 13:50
I just started to really learn about MVC. We purchased the TekPub production http://tekpub.com/productions/mvc3. After watching the first episode, I would like to summarize the tools, which Rob Conery uses for development. Rob starts by mentioning the project management software he uses: unfu...
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by Oliver
17. May 2012 12:48
Today, I was doing some HQL with NHibernate trying to retrieve some object count from the database. Running the following piece of code, unfortunately, would throw an exception: System.ArgumentException : The value "0" is not of type "System.Int32" and cannot be used in this g...
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by Oliver
13. March 2012 01:37
Finally, with an update we rolled out last week, (almost) all tooltips on Camping.Info look and behave similar, differing mostly in positioning and size, but not in the general look and feel. We chose the jQuery Tools Tooltip as the base for our own solution and it got us pretty far, but there were ...
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by Oliver
18. February 2012 23:52
We use SASS for more productive CSS and the Ruby gem Sass to automatically convert our development .scss files into valid .css files. Recently, an important bug fix appeared in the project’s master branch on GitHub and we wanted to update our local environments to use that new version for the trans...
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by Oliver
29. December 2011 03:02
I will be taking on teaching my brother-in-law how to program soon and while thinking about how to go about it I thought of putting together some essential information in one place for him and myself to check while we move along. My first suggestions are: Get to know your keyboard – really wel...
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by Oliver
3. December 2011 19:17
This week we added a Google +1 button to Camping.Info – well, actually several of them. Adding a button with a static URL is quite straight-forward and well described on Google’s pages (refer here for documentation and the Google+ button configuration tool). As Google recommends (at the bottom of t...
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by Oliver
24. November 2011 00:39
Generally, when I execute Action A and get result B, then change Action A to A2 receiving a different result R2 and then change Action A2 back to A, I would expect to get result R once again.
Well, today this logic twice failed me during development.
Trying to use the PreApplicationStartMethodAttr...
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by Oliver
7. October 2011 22:27
Yesterday I just quickly wanted to add the version number of our new Todo management application to the footer of every page. I could have just checked our own blog history or went off to Google or Stackoverflow but I just wanted to do it myself. Simple enough, isn’t it? To get the assembly of the ...
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by Oliver
16. September 2011 20:06
Lately, I was having trouble debugging certain parts of my code in Visual Studio, and all I wanted to know was the value of some variable at some point in time. Well, I’d use some logging if I could just get at that value easily. But for some objects I don’t really know what I’m looking for or where...
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