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We get Flumphs from several, different providers. Each provider has various settings that the system uses for them - particular URL routes, specific timeouts, etc. In the old Proxy, anything that absolutely had to be client-specific was stored in a configuration file. The timeout limit was universal. Here's the kicker - the only thing in the Flumph that gets sent to us that clues us into the provider is the structure of the XML. Since our Flumph providers delight in sending their own formats, we...
Posted On Friday, September 25, 2009 10:51 AM | Feedback (0)
You guys have heard the song "Synchronicity 2," right? Am I the only person who thinks Sting did that song for his own amusement? Cackling in his lush, vaguely European voice at the fans scrambling to figure out the deeper meaning between a harried husband going through his day and the Loch Ness Monster getting his killing on. I can just see him laughing atop his enormous piles of money as people make connections with Carl Jung and nod their heads sagely at the unique, but highly apt, metaphor. Ah,...
Posted On Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:18 PM | Feedback (0)
log4net is a great little logging library. There seem to be some mixed results out there as to whether or not it outperforms the Enterprise Library's Logging Application Block, although it appears to me the general findings are that log4net is faster. For me, I guess it would come down to how badly I wanted integration with the rest of the Enterprise Library. If that's not a priority, log4net can be a lightweight, fast way to get logging going in your application. Once you've got the library in your...
Posted On Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:42 AM | Feedback (1)
The first bug I was asked to fix, here, was a bug in the Q Framework. Our websites use a little pop-up, calendar datepicker (I believe it's the jQuery datepicker, but I'd have to check). The problem we were experiencing is when we added a UK client. As most of you know, the UK displays dates in DD-MM-YYYY format as opposed to the US MM-DD-YYYY format. This trivial detail actually has a wide range of implications. First of all, any US-oriented datepicker is going to have a conniption if you pass it...
Posted On Monday, September 21, 2009 1:16 PM | Feedback (0)
EDIT: Lesson learned. Don't copy and paste code from Visual Studio into this blog. This was something I did not know how to do until I started working here, and since learning it, I've been finding uses for it all over the place, both in my work projects and in my own projects. In previous posts, I talked about how we often use attributes to store metadata as opposed to getting those values from a database or an XML/config file of some kind. Metadata is something that comes up in virtually every...
Posted On Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:26 AM | Feedback (0)