Opening an existing project is a straightforward concept, and as such you’d think performing the task would also be straightforward. Let’s see if it is. Visual Studio After firing up the IDE, go to File –> Open –> Project/Solution. Then use the file explorer view to locate and select either the project or solution file [...]
In this part of our IBatis.NET series, we’ll go over a couple of ways you can handle type mismatches between your database and your objects. We build on the code from Part 1 of this series, so start there if you want to be fully up to speed. Automatic Conversions The simplest (and possibly the [...]
My team’s usage of IBatis.NET continues to meet success. While we miss the sugary goodness that is SubSonic’s auto-generated ActiveRecord code, we are starting to appreciate the newfound flexibility that IBatis.NET affords us when it comes to handling the impedance mismatch between our domain and our databases. Because of this, I’ve taken some time to [...]
My team now has a set of Net.TCP WCF services for some of our core business functions, with email notifications whenever any errors arise. Given our penchant for bug-free code, the emails were few and far between (cough). When an error did occur however, we would get roughly six emails for every “legitimate” error, which [...]
In this post I’ll explain how to create a really bare-bones splash screen for an Android screen. I’ll be assuming that you don’t know very much at all about Android development, so we can simulate my experience with this. I’ll also be assuming that you’ve set your environment up for Android development per Google’s basic [...]
I’m almost a third of the way through Maxwell’s 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, so I figured this would be a good place to recap. First, law #7, the law of respect. 7. The Law of Respect The law of respect states that people naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves. The classic example here is [...]
Now that our set of WCF services was approaching prime time, I wanted my team to be notified immediately upon any errors. I also wanted to piggy-back on the built-in tracing that we had already enabled during the early development process in order to track down initial connection issues. There are scads of good references [...]
This post is a quick how-to for people on a Windows box who are using an Assembla Git workspace as their repository. I’ll be using the msysgit project for git and the Putty tools for SSH communication. Install msysgit Git is a powerful Source Code Management tool, which was created out of the need to [...]
