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Back to Basics: Daylight Savings Time bugs strike again with SetLastModified

Editor — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:14:05 +0000

No matter how well you know a topic, or a codebase, it's never to late (or early) to get nailed by a latest bug a over a half-decade old. DasBlog , the ASP.NET 2 blog engine that powers this blog, is done. It's not dead, but it's done. It's very stable. We had some commits last year, and I committed a bug fix in February, but it's really well understood and very baked. My blog hasn't been down for traffic spike reasons in literally years as DasBlog scales nicely on a single machine. It was 10:51pm PDT (that's Pacific Daylight Time) and I was writing a blog post about the clocks in my house, given that PST (that's Pacific Standard Time) was switching over soon. I wrote it up in Windows Live Writer, posted it to…(read more)

Back to Basics – Keep it Simple and Develop Your Sense of Smell – From Linq To CSV

Editor — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:26:20 +0000

I was working with a friend recently on a side thing they were doing. They wanted to create an "Export" function for some small bit of data and start it from their website. You'd hit a URL after logging in Some data would come out of a database You'd get a .CSV file downloaded You could open it in Excel or whatever. I spoke to my friend and they said it was cool to share their code for this post. This post isn't meant to be a WTF or OMG look at that code, as is it meant to talk about some of the underlying issues. There's few things going on here and it's not all their fault, but it smells . They are using a Page when a IHttpHandler will do. Not a huge deal, but there's overhead in making a Page, and they're…(read more)

2009 Blogged – Greatest Hits

Editor — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:08:45 +0000

While I (really) unplugged in December of 2009, you can access a nice calendar of all my 2009 posts (as well as other years) at this link . In 2008 I published a Greatest Hits post that I will keep updated, but here's a list of links to the posts I most enjoyed writing this last year. I hope you find some of them useful, and perhaps you missed one or two or you just started reading recently and this 2009 "Greatest Hits" Post will catch you up on the stuff I was thinking about this year. General Geekery Painful Reminder: Focus on Core Competencies (and Back Stuff Up) 10 Awesome Things I Remember About Computers FizzBin – The Technical Support Secret Handshake Paving my machine for a fresh 2009 – First-Pass Must-Haves Low Bandwidth…(read more)