August 2004 Entries
Yeah, that's kind of harsh, but it's how I feel after spending the past 4 hours trying to get the ADONetAppender to work. First off, has anyone used this thing before? There are hardly any useful examples available - both with log4net and accessible via Google. Second, who wrote the documentation for this tool? Maybe I'm spoiled after spending a lot of time working on advanced NAnt scripts, but the log4net documentation is worthless. I shouldn't have to read an 8 page, 3000 word document to get an...
What the hell is up with people putting the value you're checking for first in a comparison expression? I freakin' hate that!!! Is there some sort of advantage? Arrrgh... Maybe it's just me, but I think, “is <my variable> equal to <some value>?” That just makes sense to me. For instance, “Is your name Michael?” sounds so much better than, “Is Michael your name?” Granted, they both make grammatical sense. Maybe I'm just stuck in a latin-based society...
Download UpdateVersion I've been looking at NAnt pretty hard lately. The biggest problem that I've had so far is creating and updating version numbers. NAntContrib has a <version> task that will read in and update a version number specified in a text file, but that doesn't quite give me what I'm looking for. NAnt 0.85 is supposed to come with a method for reading assembly the version, but again, this falls pretty short of what I'm looking for. After looking around, I found a pretty good solution:...
Well, I finally finished my HTTP handler article. Check it out and let me know what you think. I had to leave some stuff out that I would have liked to have included, but will see about adding that later. For now, I'm just glad that I'm done. For anyone that has sent me emails or commented on my last post about HTTP handlers, I will respond to those soon. Thank you, and sorry for the delay...
With the recent release of Mono, it looks like portability will actually mean something to .NET apps. It's about time, too. I'm looking forward to testing apps on Mono in the future. I'm hoping to get Mono setup and ready for my next project, which will be something of an organizational guide to .NET development. And, just to make it interesting, I'll use the Mono version that runs on Solaris! That should shake things up and open peoples' eyes a little bit. Mix that all with some good ol' performance...
Has something new come up in the browser scene? I mean, seriously. So many articles have been coming out about the new browser wars and security holes in IE. It's kind of ridiculous. Is there really something new, or is it just the same-old, same-old