by Oliver
9. August 2014 12:52
Today, I found this dusty piece of code in our code base: Stone-age version public string GetIframeIds() { var result = new StringBuilder(); var first = true; foreach (var iframe in _iframes) { if (!first) result.Append(','); else first = false; r...
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by Oliver
4. July 2014 21:56
In our customizable web portal platform discoverize we offer searching for results using a Google Map. In a recent iteration, we were trying to improve the overall map usage experience, and one thing we wanted to do was to zoom into the map as far as possible for all results to still appear on the m...
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by Oliver
30. May 2014 21:34
Today, I finally decided that I want to get to grips with PowerShell and have it available in my toolbox for those everyday developer tasks. For a fresh start, I wanted to make sure I'm running the latest and greatest of PowerShell, but how do I find out which version I have installed? What version...
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by Oliver
28. May 2014 12:09
Recently, we had to make some space available in one of our SQL Express instances that was getting close to its 10 GB limit of stored data, so I set out to delete some old data from two of our largest tables. One contained about half a million rows, the other a bit over 21 million. Simple Deletion ...
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by Oliver
22. February 2014 12:37
We're adding some Premium functionality to discoverize right now, and part of that is the so-called Premium block which is a showcase of six Premium entries. Now, choosing the right entries for that block is the interesting part: as long as we don't have six Premium entries to show, we want to fill ...
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by Oliver
6. February 2014 00:23
Not much else to say than what's mentioned in the title. I come across the need to do so mostly before deployments from my machine where I want to update my local master branch to the HEAD of the remote master branch. Here's how to do that: 1: git fetch origin master:master
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by Oliver
28. January 2014 21:24
This is embarrassing. For the n-th time during the past couple of years I've felt an unease waiting for our projects (read: solutions) to compile. I kept seeing this: This is MSBuild using 1 (!), yes, one!, of the 8 CPU cores I've sitting in my machine to get my work done. What about the other 7?...
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by Oliver
28. January 2014 01:20
Last year, we were looking for a developer to strengthen our team and we put the job offer on our homepage. Nothing fancy there. Booking.com found a much more interesting place to put their job offer without much noise. Look at this Fiddler screenshot: This response is from today so if you're loo...
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by Oliver
17. December 2013 22:01
Today we decided that auto-updating our entries' urls when their names change is a rather good idea. Our entries are ContentItems consisting of our custom EntryPart, an AutoroutePart, and some more that are not important here. I thought it would be a matter of minutes to get this user story done. Si...
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by Oliver
24. October 2013 23:03
Some facts about IE and its address bar IE can display non-ASCII characters in the address bar if you put them there by hand or click a link that contains such in unencoded form, e.g. http://marinas.info/marina/fürther-wassersportclub. IE sends a request for the correctly encoded URL, which is htt...
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