August 2011 Entries

An Improved HttpModule to Redirect Requests When an Uploaded File is Too Big

Further to comments on my previous post on this topic, I realised my HttpModule which gives a user a friendly error message if they upload a file which is too big only dealt with half of the problem. The maximum size a request can be is specified in the machine.config and web.config in the maximumRequestLength attribute on the httpRuntime element; if a user uploads a file which is larger than that, the part of the HttpModule which checks the request size is by-passed, and the user gets a not-ver

Posted On Thursday, August 11, 2011 6:28 PM | Comments (0)

Interview question - there's a lot wrong with this code :)

I had some really great responses to my last post regarding some bad code I've shown to interviewees - pretty much everything I intended to be bad was spotted, as well as some interesting points I hadn't considered. Here's the code again along with the bad bits as I saw them, and then I'll go over the extra points raised in the comments.

Posted On Saturday, August 6, 2011 9:17 AM | Comments (4)

Interview question - what's wrong with this code?

You can learn a lot about good code from reading bad code, and at least something about how well someone codes from what they can tell you about bad code. With this in mind I handed a print out of some bad code to the latest prospective developers I've interviewed, to see what they made of it. I'll write another blog with the things I think is wrong with the code soon (there's quite a few of them), but it'd be very interesting to hear what people think is wrong with it before I do :)

Posted On Wednesday, August 3, 2011 7:47 PM | Comments (5)