by Oliver
2. August 2012 15:19
On Camping.Info, we lately had a user report that hitting the enter key while in the login form one would be redirected to the search page instead of being logged in. This happened when the focus was still on the password text box because the “Search” button on the page was the first input element o...
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by Oliver
31. July 2012 17:27
Developing our web application www.marinas.info using Orchard CMS, I often find myself at the command prompt to run different sets of build actions: in place compilation packaging for stage deploying to a local app instance running spec tests … Sometimes I have trouble remembe...
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by Oliver
27. June 2012 14:40
This is only the beginning… Batch String replacement: http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-replace.html Date formatting T-SQL, using CONVERT or CAST: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx .NET: Custom Date and Time Format Strings, Standard Date and Time Format Strings Windows...
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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 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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