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My First Post

2010-07-27

I’ve finally gone and done it.

To be honest, creating my own blog wasn’t foremost in my thoughts until fairly recently. Scott Hanselman had a couple of interesting videos on his blog that finally convinced me to do it.

I hope you like it.

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Shared Resource Schedule Service

2010-07-28 | projectsThemis

I think I’ve got a new project to work on at home. We’ve got this problem at work coordinating a few shared resources in Outlook (like a couple of meeting rooms and a projector), but we couldn’t find any good solutions out there short of installing Exchange Server.

I’ve been wanting to play around with Entity Framework a bit, so this should be a good candidate. Perhaps I can slap a UI on it using Silverlight and Ria Services.

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So

Converting to Media Monkey was easy, and all the data (like ratings, play counts, album art) came over fine. I did have some trouble with the comments getting scrambled in several tracks, but it seems like iTunes was causing that well before copying the data over. All told, I had all the data over and fixed up after a half day of elbow grease.

Verdict

My only real problem so far has been with the Zen. I’ve had to reboot the device a couple times when it’s hiccupped during a huge sync operation or failed to come back out of sleep.The UI can be a bit difficult sometimes as well. I won’t get into details, but let me just say that converting a WEP key to stars while typing with 9 buttons isn’t making my life any easier.

All in all, I’m pretty happy with the change so far. Just getting the weight of my old 20 GB monster out of my pocket has been nice.

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  • Save free/busy information for all resources in a format compatible with MS Outlook.
  • The schedule for a resource can be retrieved in the iCal format.
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  • Stand back and let the web platform installer do it’s thing.

    • I wish I’d tried that the first time.

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    I could have lived with the disabled desktop sharing if it were the only problem, but a few hideous rendering problems in Google Calendar, and WordPress failing to save my posts was a deal breaker. The compatibility mode doesn’t seem to be compatible enough, and tweaking the settings in the developer console (F12) is too much of a nuisance to do every day.

    IE9 came off pretty easy once I figured out how to do it. It’s listed as an update, not as an application, so you need to click on the the “View installed updates” thingy of thePrograms and Features menu.

    I hope they get the bugs worked out soon; it’s only been a day and I’m starting to miss it already.

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    My favourite of the contenders is released under the GNU LGPL license. This shouldn’t impose any awkward restrictions. I have additional freedom because I’m planning to release my project as open source, but I can see how this would be more difficult for a company building a commercial product.

    Since I was reading about licenses, it seemed as good a time as any to pick one for my project. After a lot of reading, I decided to go with the GNU GPL license. I want my project to be freely available, and I don’t want anyone to use it to make a profit without me being involved. If I were unsure this would be the safest choice anyway, because I always have the ability to switch to a less restrictive license later.

    Now if I can just find an IoC container, a unit testing framework, and a mocking framework that are also compatible with GPL, Ill be ready to get started.

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    SQLiteThe only thing left is to study.

    You can get a .Net library for SQLite here: https://sqlite.phxsoftware.com/

    It’s able to integrate with Visual Studio, even the Express version, but it didn’t work well for me. With a good database management tool you don’t need it. I’ve been using SQLite Administrator, which you can get here: https://sqliteadmin.orbmu2k.de/

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  • Compile most of your assemblies for ‘Any CPU’, but compile entry-point assemblies (such as my service executable) for 32-bit

    • A configuration-based solution isn’t ideal based on the number and management practices of our environments. Finding and removing platform dependence would be the best technical solution, but it would be risky and time consuming. Switching some of my assemblies back to ‘Any CPU’ did the job with a minimal amount of impact.

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    I’ve added the first unit tests to the solution, checking the parser against a number of examples in the specifications and real snippets extracted from emails sent by Outlook. I’ve also added tests for a number of failure cases in the parser such as groups without an ending or values lines without a value delimiter.

    My next addition will be parsers for the value types and a stub in the test harness that replies to emails with some info about the original request.

    The code at the time of this post is available here: https://github.com/jessemcdowell/themis/tree/8e0c428df0e33145df0323d6e9ae617114dd0f85

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    It took me about an hour and a half to prepare, and two hours to present. I’ve spent about a day of effort writing it down, but would guess that I’ve covered less than half of the material I talked about. To be fair, the written material is laid out quite differently from the presentations; I am trying to capture a series of troubleshooting guides that can be used in an emergency.

    Are you curious about the difference between a developer and an IT pro? The most significant difference I see is that we developers are used to an environment where we can test changes quickly and safely: change a line of code, hit F5, and see what happens. IT pros take the opposite approach because the cost of a bad change in a live production environment can be devastating. They need to be certain what any change will do before it’s made, and be prepared to roll it back if there’s any hint of trouble. It can be frustrating for a developer to work this way because it’s a serious effort to make even simple changes, but it’s this mentality that keeps the world’s servers running.

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    Now that I’m building this neutral representation, my next thought is how it will be saved to the database. I don’t need a database at this stage of the project, so part of me wants to ignore the decision until later, but the whole point of the system is to persist and interact with these types, so it’s important that I get it right. If I make simple POCO classes now, and start writing a bunch of code that uses them, I might have to change a lot of code later if I want to switch to types generated by Entity Framework. I could write my own custom code to read and write my own types from the database, then I can use any type I want without restrictions, but it would be a waste to write this plumbing code myself when an ORM can do it faster and better.

    Creating a table design now wouldn’t be a simple matter either. I don’t know enough about the needs of the scheduling service to know which parts of the VCalendar format to bring over. If I try to guess now I know I’ll bring over a bunch of stuff that I don’t need, but starting with a simple table and adding fields every time I need one is no fun either. Adding a database to a system is like attaching a ball and chain, and I want to wait until I can be sure I have my model correct before I do it.

    I need to make a decision, so here it is: I’m going to keep building my own types, and try to keep them. When it comes time to hook up a database, I’ll play around with the new POCO support in Entity Framework 4, and if that fails I’ll try another ORM tool. I may need to change my model a bit to suit the ORM, but I’m hoping that it wont need to change much.

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    Instead of settling in somewhere else for another long haul, I felt it was time for a change of pace. Now I get to hop from organization to organization working on new problems and broadening my skill set in the most efficient way possible. I might settle down if a good opportunity comes along, but for now I’m enjoying the freedom.

    I’m currently working on a fun little contract, but I’ll be looking for my next opportunity soon.

    If you want help designing or building awesome software that delights users, we should talk. I’d be happy to put my experience to work building you exactly what you need.

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    When a critical path is defining the time line for your project, it’s important to identify it; any step that gets delayed affects the entire chain. You should start these tasks as soon as possible, and do what you can to stop them from getting blocked.

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    I had one table variable with a list of tables to copy, and another defining the relationships between foreign keys and their source tables. Most foreign keys were named the same in all tables that they appeared in, so a single mapping was often enough for all of them. Most of the mappings could be determined from the list of tables itself, so I only had a few other relationships and special column rules that had to be entered manually.

    Another factor that helped was our use of guids for all primary keys. Because the can be determined before inserting a row, it was possible to generate the mapping from old to new key at the start of the script. I could also use a single insert statement for each table, and the order of execution only mattered where foreign key constraints existed.

    The results were tremendous. We found a bunch of issues we wouldn’t have found otherwise, and had a fairly solid indication of how the application would behave years in the future.

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    This is a common problem in the software world: getting overwhelmed by a giant list of tasks, doing a little bit of everything, and completing nothing. I’ve experienced this first hand, and have been using effective tools for dealing with it for years, but I had never considered applying them to my personal life.

    I tried a few things next, but the best help came from the book Getting Results the Agile Way, which was also mentioned in the podcast. It combines agile philosophy with some ideas about balancing life priorities and energy levels. I’m not committed to the entire process, but the parts I am trying have already made a big difference. By focusing on three goals a day, I’m now managing to plow through even dauntingly large tasks. Though I’m not doing everything on my list, I’m getting the most important things done, and because I feel that I’m making progress again it’s motivating me to work harder.

    Taking the time off has been really good for me. Beyond organizing my personal priorities, I’ve also been organizing my main workspaces: my office, and my kitchen. You could say the experience is like rebooting a computer; it took a bit of time, but now I feel fresh and full of life, ready to tackle something new.

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    To learn specific technologies, I’ll spend an hour or two a few times a week reading or watching videos. I need to play with something to understand it, so I spend an odd evening banging away at some pet project.

    My study used to be limited to an occasional book or seminar, but increasing my study time, and opening myself to podcasts, blogs, and twitter has made a huge difference in my career. I have more to contribute in design meetings. I have opinions on various technologies I haven’t even used. It takes more energy for sure, but I feel like I am a better developer for it, and I don’t regret it one bit.

    This business is a challenging one, but exciting as well. If you are the kind of person that loves to learn, explore new technologies, and push yourself to constantly look at problems in new ways, then embrace the change and you will do well.

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    When you change from trying to do everything to doing what’s most important, you need to decide what important means. Figuring this out for myself has proven difficult. I still don’t have all the answers, but I am constantly making progress.

    Deciding what isn’t important has been easier. I am abandoning Themis, my attempt at an open source project. I no longer have a need for it, and it will take a lot more effort to get it finished than I originally expected. I would be delighted if someone wanted to take it on, but there isn’t enough there for it to be likely.

    Writing in this blog has also been pushed down the priority list. I intend to keep going, but instead of forcing out a steady pace of content, I’ll wait until I have ideas that I have a strong desire to share.

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    Long version: Service applications in Visual Studio 2010 are 32 bit by default, and this is a reasonable default for them to have. We were trying to install the 32 bit service with the 64 bit version of InstallUtil. InstallUtil loads the target assembly to access it’s installation instructions, but you can’t load a 32 bit assembly from a 64 bit application (or vice versa). If you try to, you get a BadImageFormatException.

    Short version: Two numbers derailed my entire afternoon.

    It would have been nice if the error message from InstallUtil was a little more specific, but I suppose this isn’t a common problem. At least I got a good reminder about the importance of checking the small details when the big ones aren’t bearing fruit.

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    Monitoring Failure

    A flat line like this is almost never real, except maybe during deliberate maintenance windows. If it’s not obvious why you’re flat, you should check that your monitoring and graphing systems are collecting data correctly.

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    It was easy to test this code. Whenever I expected a controller to navigate, I checked the value of $location.path(). To pass navigation parameters into controllers, I just called the navigate method before the controller was created in the setup block.

    Unfortunately this solution breaks the back button. Because the browser triggers backward navigation, the navigation parameter won’t be set when the controller tries to load. This wasn’t something I needed, so I left alone.

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    Loose teas can be harder to find, but there are many great sources online. If there is a tea store in your neighbourhood, going in and selecting a few teas can be a lot of fun. Except for the very highest grades, most good teas aren’t too expensive, especially when compared to premium tea bags.

    Once awakened, I started taking a lot of pleasure in hunting down and trying new teas and brewing equipment. I have been researching and experimenting for more than a decade now, and I still feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface.

    Sometimes I am forced to drink tea from tea bags while I’m in a restaurant or visiting family. Some tea bags that are better than others, but all of them seem lacking compared to my own stash at home. It’s enough that I’ll never forget why I put in the extra effort to enjoy my cup of tea.

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    This is when I start fine-tuning my personal processes, and trying to resolve anything that’s still holding me back. I expect to have a good relationship with my manager by this point. I would be bringing up more serious issues earlier, but now I want to start bringing up everything else. If our relationship strong enough, this is when I would try to fix that also.

    Sometimes I never make it to this stage. I might be spending too much energy arguing, or feel like my contributions are not appreciated. If I don’t make it here within a few months, and have no clear path to improve things, I know it’s time to brush up my resume.

    4) Performing

    With good working relationships, enough context about the problem space, and all my major issues resolved, I can now focus on getting some work done.

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    Let the tea cool slowly to room temperature, then put it in the fridge to cool the rest of the way. Adding ice while it’s hot can disturb the flavour, and dilutes the tea.

    Once it’s cold, pour a glass, add ice if you like, and enjoy.

    You can experiment with different teas. Green or white tea should work, but follow their proper brewing instructions. Only black tea should be brewed with boiling water. My second favourite mix is using a plain black orange pekoe, inserting a couple springs of fresh mint after removing the tea.

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    Develop your personal brand

    I think a lot of us developers lack awareness of our personal brand, but it’s an important part of your career, and it’s importance increases the higher up you go. Make sure people want to work with you, and try to get some high-profile successes under your belt. These will all help you earn a promotion, and give you essential credibility once you get it.

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    Where did you encounter the bug? (Location)

    It’s not always obvious, but sometimes companies have more than one piece of software, or more than one version in circulation.

    If you’re using a website, include the URL. If it’s a visual bug, maybe include the browser you’re using, it’s version, and the operating system you’re using it on. If it’s a mobile app, include the kind of phone you have. If the app has a version number include that too.

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    Step 9: Bug Retrospective (Post-mortem)

    Once in a while I take a bit of time to reflect on the bugs I’ve encountered. How did the bug escape in the first place? Is it likely that similar bugs will be introduced again? Can I introduce tools or change processes to make this class of bug less likely to occur?

    Some organizations have a formal post mortem process for impactful issues. This is a great way to ensure a team is learning from its mistakes. I have introduced this process in a few of my teams and highly recommend it.

    Even for bugs with less impact it can be worth spending a bit of time thinking about this. It’s not always feasible to prevent some types of bugs, but as craftspeople we should be trying!

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    I found the offending delete statement. The bug was actually a feature!

    The customer had re-installed the software at some point and couldn’t find their licence key. The software wouldn’t work without a licence unless it was put into “demonstration mode.” Demonstration mode caused users to be deleted after the trial period ended.

    We issued them a new licence key and changed the demonstration mode feature so it wouldn’t be so destructive if it ever got turned on in the future.

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    There are plenty of unintended features (bugs) in games that became beloved. Attack combos were an accident in Street Fighter II, but they became so popular that they are a part of basically every fighting game now. Rocket jumps are another example. The internet is full of examples.

    Sometimes very glitchy games can be fun too, especially for a certain audience. Speed runners sometimes use glitches to lower their times. People love games for all sorts of reasons beyond just beating them and getting high scores. At the end of the day the goal of a game is to entertain more than be correct.

    The next time a bug comes across your desk, maybe ask yourself if fixing it would make your app less fun.

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    A few experienced founders attended my session, and quite a few people who wanted to or had already started software companies were present too. I asked my questions, other people asked their questions, and we got a lot of great answers. I took 3 pages of notes that will absolutely be helpful in my endeavors.

    The best part of this event is learning about what other companies in town are doing, what’s working for them, and where they’ve had problems. Traditional software conferences tend to have more vendor-sponsored presentations where everything is a sales pitch. These are valuable too, but the unconference is a better way to get a balanced opinion.

    I can’t wait to attend again next year.

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    What About Performance?

    One common argument against throwing exceptions is that it causes a performance hit. It’s true, it does takes time to capture the stack trace, and allocating a new object on the heap isn’t free. It depends on your circumstance of course, but I think in 99% of scenarios this cost is too miniscule to matter, and certainly far cheaper than the wasted time of developers who can’t find bugs.

    If your exceptional case is something you expect to hit often inside a tight loop though, it may actually matter. The TryFunction pattern is the common alternative in .Net. The drawback is that because your return value is typically boolean you can’t easily add new failure cases as safely as you can with exceptions. You could include more information in another output parameter, but that can also impact your callers whenever the list changes. It also means every caller needs to check the function response, or even worse, they can forget to and the app can continue running in a weird state without realizing the call failed.

    What About Leaking Security Sensitive Information?

    Another argument I’ve heard against good error handling is to prevent leaking information to attackers, but I think this is mostly bad advice too. For any software that is distributed, a malicious user can easily find tools to look inside and see how it’s wired. For server-side code you should at least share the error details with yourself in your own log files. If you need to withhold information from potential hackers then do that in your global error handler.

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    Conclusion

    Using ArgoCD for automating the more complicated upgrade process worked well for us, even with its challenges. I would recommend this solution to others.

    Another strong reason to use ArgoCD is that it is an excellent tool to use even if you don’t need to control the synchronization process. It was a great platform for us to deploy newer Kubernetes-native applications, and it was convenient to use the same tool for everything. It also left us in a position where we could iterate gradually to a simpler deployment process with our legacy applications.

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    Some companies don’t see the value of keeping everyone informed. If that’s the case where you work, you will have to take matters into your own hands. At the very least, make sure you read the company emails. Ask questions when you can, and try to always understand the direction your company is going.

    Even when you have good alignment with your manager and a clear understanding of the organization’s goals, you may sometimes find yourself under a manager that isn’t well aligned themselves. Even if you are a perfect employee, the success of your team will reflect on you, and the team won’t be seen as successful if it isn’t helping the organization. The teams that are doing the best from this point of view tend to have the best bonuses and the best growth opportunities.

    It’s not always possible to control the team you work on, sometimes the only way to improve things is to leave your company entirely. Of course there are lots of factors that go into a decision like that… but if you don’t feel that you, your team, and your company are going in the same direction, or if you can’t tell, you should at least be aware that it could be hurting your opportunities to grow and advance.

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    One of the (many) challenges with Access is that it is sometimes a bit too clover. It could convert a select statement into insert / update / delete statements automatically. If you navigated the form past the last row of the query (even if your query only selected a single row) it would go into creation mode.

    The form where the row was created had all the keyboard navigation shortcuts blocked, as was the standard practice, but the user was still able to trigger it. This is where the new mouse comes in. This problem occurred around the time when mice just started shipping with scroll wheels, and in Access it automatically triggered row navigation.

    We weren’t able to disable this behavior, but I was able to rewrite the query and modify the form so that a new row couldn’t be generated any more. We also updated our installation instructions to ban mice with scroll wheels in case the same problem could be triggered in any of our hundreds of other forms.

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    When you believe in things that you don’t understand
    Then you suffer
    Superstition ain’t the way

    – Superstition by Stevie Wonder

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    I was fortunate to work in an environment with a lot of trust: I could speak my mind honestly, and I didn’t really need to be persuasive to make sure my ideas were heard. Even still, the better I got, the more confident I felt. Portraying confidence is important in a leadership position - if a leader looks worried it can generate more stress for those around them.

    After a few years of these meetings, I am convinced that they were a big part of my success as an architect. I’m also convinced that they’ve helped me improve as a communicator.

    Repeating similar conversation has been so valuable, that I’ve started having practice conversations just for the sake of it. Rough notes and research is still my preferred place to start, but this type of preparation starts to have diminishing returns after a while. If I really need to nail a conversation, a practice conversation is an efficient way to improve my messages. All it takes is a bit of time from a trusted colleague, or if that’s not possible, a rubber duck can do the job too.

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    Template

    I’ve created a standalone page with the example from this post so you can use it as a template for your own work. You can find it under Resources, Architectural Report Template. If you do use it I suggest replacing the contents before sharing it to prevent any embarrassment.

    Acknowledgements

    This template was inspired by the Decision record template by Michael Nygard which I also recommend for its intended purpose.

    If you want to know more about how to write architectural reports, gather information, or validate designs, I highly recommend the book Design It!: From Programmer to Software Architect by Michael Keeling. I learned a lot from this book, and have referred to its contents many times since.

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    You could make an argument that you should avoid architectures that encourage lots of boring boilerplate code. I agree with that idea, but in my experience most teams are not mature enough to design systems that prevent it. It is easy to follow simple service-business-repository patterns blindly, and to be honest, for most software this is good enough.

    Again: I do think unit tests are a good thing, and good test coverage is essential to get good value from them, but unit tests also have a cost. Unit tests often need to be changed when code is being changed. If you have lots of low-value tests testing lots of simple methods, you can quickly get overwhelmed trying to make non-trivial changes. Unit tests are supposed to make it safer to go faster… but poorly written tests can do the exact opposite too.

    Of course there is an exception to every rule. If you are writing the software for my bank, or for medical equipment, or for self driving cars, please enforce 100% coverage and use several other tools to enure an extremely high quality. For most of us though, not all of the tests are actually worth the effort of writing them, and I don’t want to edit the coverage percentage every time I make a change.

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    The problem originated in a database query we used to find matches. It used a cartesian join, which takes exponentially longer to complete as more rows are added (O(n²) complexity). At some queue length, the processing time increases from milliseconds to seconds, and then it quickly increases from seconds to minutes. It also didn’t help that our contrived load test meant thousands of users were all attempting to make matches with the same power rating, thus making it harder to distinguish suitable matches.

    After all the time it took to find the problem, it only took a day to fix it. I replaced the algorithm with one that processed matches linearly, giving it O(n) complexity.

    About a week later, I got an email confirming that the issue was fixed. Since the report came in overnight, it was the first thing I read in the morning. It was exhilarating, but the day is still bittersweet in my memory. About an hour later, I attended a last-minute team-wide meeting where we were all let go. The game was never released.

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    Being respectful of all cultures is becoming more important as the internet continues connecting the whole world together. Some words can have unexpected or unpleasant connotations for people who live (or have lived) in other cultures. Some words commonly used in Western culture should be retired now. Names from nature, science, geography, or popular fiction are usually safe. References to religions, cultures, or historical figures or groups should be avoided.

    After focusing on a name for hours, it’s not uncommon to develop tunnel vision. Before pasting a name all over my files and objects, I like to get an external perspective. Asking a boss or a peer can save a lot of time if your name isn’t quite as great as you thought.

    Once the name is set, all that’s left is living up to it.

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    Confirm the problem is important

    If you are really, really, really stuck on a problem, maybe there is a good reason. It may be beyond your current capability. It may also not be important enough to justify more effort. A quick chat with your manager shouldn’t hurt. If it is dangerous to ask your manager, you may want to find a new manager, but that’s a topic for another post.

    Ask for help

    If your problem is important enough, and you’ve made an effort and failed to get yourself unstuck, it’s not inappropriate to ask for help. Pair programming is an excellent technique for tackling complicated problems.

    Searching or asking online for an answer could also help, but I’ve not personally had much luck here. Your results may vary.

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    I don’t use any of the apps or plugins now. I found them to be exceedingly intrusive. The Windows app added a giant green G button that covered text boxes, and a lot of times it was covering things I wanted to see. The VS Code plugin covered my rough drafts in red and blue lines, and my programmer muscle memory couldn’t just ignore them. The browser plugin was the least intrusive, but still too noisy and often not helpful.

    Now I use Grammarly primarily via its web interface, and only as a final pass at the end of the editing process.

    The technology is promising, and it has helped a bit with some of the more mechanical editing I do. Until it gets a lot better, though, I will only be using it for very specific tasks. I’d have to see some pretty major improvements before I’d consider Grammarly Premium again.

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    This Blog: Hexo-generated static site hosted on GitHub Pages

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    Contents
    1. 1. Static vs Dynamic websites
    2. 2. Comments and contact pages on a static website
    3. 3. HTTPS and custom domains
    4. 4. Price of static websites
    5. 5. Creating, editing, and publishing posts
    6. 6. Converting from WordPress to Hexo
    7. 7. Summary

    A couple of years ago I switched this blog from a WordPress site hosted on GoDaddy to a statically generated site. The new setup is faster, more secure, and cheaper to operate. And it was easy to do!

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    Static vs Dynamic websites

    WordPress is a very popular blogging platform. You can use it hosted on WordPress.com, or any number of other web providers that offer it. Because it’s open source, you can also host it yourself easily. In my case, I had a virtual server running in GoDaddy where I maintained the installation myself.

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    Hexo is a static website generator. When you want to publish changes, you run a command that causes it to spit out a bunch of static html, css, and so on that you can then host anywhere you like. These tools can store the raw content any way they like, but Hexo and all the other generators I’ve played with use a directory structure with simple markdown files.

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    Dynamic websites are generated by software running on the web server. Ignoring any caches or other optimizations, every web request triggers a call to the running application, which in turn makes database requests and invokes any loaded plugins before a page gets sent back to the browser. For medium-sized websites, this isn’t noticeable because the server will be constantly warmed up and ready to respond. For very small websites like mine that go idle, a fresh web request can take more than 30 seconds to respond while everything is initialized. This is not ideal.

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    Static websites have fantastic performance. The server only has to return the pre-computed content, and the providers that do this at scale do it very well. Even if I only get one hit a month, that page will still load very quickly, likely even faster than a warmed-up WordPress instance. It depends on the hosting platform, but static websites can typically also handle massive traffic spikes without any extra effort, and at a much lower cost. Your small self-hosted WordPress site, by comparison, could fall over when one of your posts goes viral.

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    Another benefit to static websites is their security. Because it’s just plain files, there is much less attack surface. As long as your account is secure, it should be impossible for an attacker to modify the content. Even if someone did, the content and site generator can be kept separate, so the site can easily be replaced with fresh, clean content. With a WordPress site, you have the running server, the WordPress software, and the database all running in the cloud. They are prone to bugs and attacks like any other cloud infrastructure, and they need to be updated regularly to keep them secure.

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    Comments and contact pages on a static website

    The biggest drawback to static websites is that they are, well, static. There are a few tricks you can use, but some features are much more difficult to implement. For a simple blog like mine, this wasn’t a problem.

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    Comments are a common blog feature that is trivial for a dynamic site to implement. For this blog, I recently set up utterances. It uses GitHub Issues (in a free public repository) like a database to store comments, and retrieves / renders them on each page with a bit of client-side javascript. This way I don’t need to run hexo generate every time someone posts a comment.

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    A reader does need a GitHub account to add a comment with this system, but this seems like a reasonable limitation given my audience. There are other static-capable comment systems available, each with different styles and storage mechanisms. There are commercial offerings too, which may or may not be more expensive than using a hosted WordPress site for your blog to begin with.

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    I don’t have a contact form on this site, but I easily set one up on another static website using getform. For the frequency of messages I expect there, it should also be free.

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    It gets unfortunately difficult to push much further than this on a static website. Some things can be done with client-side javascript or advanced application firewalls, but these can get complicated and/or expensive pretty quickly. It may be worth it if you want the scalability advantages of a static site, but if you just want a cheap website with a couple of dynamic features, a hosted WordPress site may be your best bet.

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    HTTPS and custom domains

    The main reason I left WordPress on GoDaddy was the desire to move my blog to HTTPS. Nowadays it’s not that hard to get a free certificate from Let’s Encrypt, but the certificates don’t last very long, so it’s best to automate the process. At the time I changed, automating this wasn’t possible with the package I had from GoDaddy. I could have changed to a more expensive virtual machine option or bought a proper certificate. I went with option 3 instead.

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    HTTPS requires a certificate, and the certificate has to contain the domain name of the website you’re using it for. That means that you need a custom certificate to go with your custom domain name. The good news is that many hosting services can procure certificates on your behalf, and some will do it for free.

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    GitHub Pages is one of these services, and it was easy to set up. There were a couple of steps necessary so they could validate that I had control of the domain, but now they just take care of it for me. They can also provide redirects from HTTP to HTTPS, and from www to the apex website. GitHub Pages has good documentation if you want to set this up for yourself.

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    Price of static websites

    Because GitHub Pages is free (for public repositories, at the time of this writing), the only thing I’m paying for is the domain name and the DNS service, both of which I get from AWS. The .ca domain costs $13 USD per year, and the Route53 hosted zone costs me $0.90 USD per month (the minimum possible since I don’t exceed the initial usage limits). This is much less than I was paying GoDaddy for a virtual server.

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    There are a few equivalents to GitHub Pages that are also free. There are also cheaper options than AWS for domain registration and DNS.

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    If you don’t want the hassle of setting this all up, there are lots of hosted WordPress solutions around, and other blogging/website platforms too. Some of these are even free, but the free ones each have their own limitations. I haven’t searched exhaustively, but I don’t know of any free options that support custom domains and control over advertising.

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    Creating, editing, and publishing posts

    It can take a bit of effort to get a static site generator set up and configured with a nice theme, but things get easier once you have it all working. You still need to run a few commands in a terminal, which will be too much for some people. Even the mildly technically challenged should be able to keep themselves going with a few basic commands written down. This is what I use:

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    When I want to start a new post, I use the hexo new command:

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    This command generates a markdown file in the draft folder with some initial “front-matter”. I can then edit the content in any text editor I wish. These days I use VS Code. Markdown is a very simple mostly-text format for making pages that is very easy to learn. Front-matter is a bit of data about the page that go at the top of the document such as the title, publish date, tags, categories, and so on. You can see an example of what this looks like in the source for the Hexo documentation.

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    If I want to see how a page will look (for example: if I’m using some tricky markdown syntax), I use hexo server --drafts. This hosts a website on my computer that looks exactly like the blog will when I publish it. I also sometimes use commands like hexo list tag --draft to make sure I’m using the same tags across multiple posts.

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    Once I’m happy with a post, I run the hexo publish command:

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    The main thing this does is move the file and its attachments from the drafts folder into the posts folder. It also renames the file and updates the front-matter with the published date and time. You could do this manually, but the command is quick and reliable. Then I need to re-generate the static content for publishing:

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    This goes through all the content files and configuration and generates everything needed for the website. The new post gets its own folder and html file, but it will also cause changes to the front page and a number of peripheral pages. The theme I’m using supports paging, so it also pushes the post at the bottom of the front page back to page 2, the bottom post from page 2 to page 3, and so on. There are also the tag, category, and archive pages that get updated similarly. It might seem like a lot, but I assure you, the software doesn’t mind.

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    After this, it’s a simple matter of uploading the content to my hosting provider. In the case of GitHub Pages, this means copying it to the website repository, commiting, and then pushing the branch. Nowadays I use a PowerShell script to generate, copy, commit, and push in a single step.

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    I use Git and GitHub to manage my hexo folders because I am very comfortable with these tools. This isn’t necessary though. You could just as easily store your hexo files on a cloud drive. You could store it on your local hard drive too, but I highly recommend using somewhere that has automatic backups and some form of change history.

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    Because I’m using drafts for incomplete posts, I commit and push any changes I’ve made regularly. The drafts aren’t included in the generated site, so I can keep a few sitting around while publishing other posts or changes. I originally went a little bonkers with a branch-per-post but found it made my process unnecessarily complicated.

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    You can simplify publishing your site further. Some static page providers can automatically run the generate step for you. I chose not to do this for my blog because I didn’t want my drafts and their edit history to be visible in the public repository (as a public repository is required to use Pages for free). There are other options that don’t have this limitation.

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    Converting from WordPress to Hexo

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    It took a bit of fiddling after this to get everything working perfectly. I had some issues with my code snippets (I was using a gist plugin in WordPress), and some of the attachment references didn’t work with my theme. The nice thing about working with markdown files is that it was really easy to search for patterns once I found them. With Git and branches, I could also quickly test fixes and revert them if they didn’t work.

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    I didn’t have a lot of content when I made the switch, but it only took me a few hours.

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    Summary

    Static websites can be cheaper, perform better, and require less maintenance than self-hosted options. They have their limitations, but for a simple blog like mine, it was an easy choice that I’m still happy with.

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    Static vs Dynamic websites

    WordPress is a very popular blogging platform. You can use it hosted on WordPress.com, or any number of other web providers that offer it. Because it’s open source, you can also host it yourself easily. In my case, I had a virtual server running in GoDaddy where I maintained the installation myself.

    Hexo is a static website generator. When you want to publish changes, you run a command that causes it to spit out a bunch of static html, css, and so on that you can then host anywhere you like. These tools can store the raw content any way they like, but Hexo and all the other generators I’ve played with use a directory structure with simple markdown files.

    Dynamic websites are generated by software running on the web server. Ignoring any caches or other optimizations, every web request triggers a call to the running application, which in turn makes database requests and invokes any loaded plugins before a page gets sent back to the browser. For medium-sized websites, this isn’t noticeable because the server will be constantly warmed up and ready to respond. For very small websites like mine that go idle, a fresh web request can take more than 30 seconds to respond while everything is initialized. This is not ideal.

    Static websites have fantastic performance. The server only has to return the pre-computed content, and the providers that do this at scale do it very well. Even if I only get one hit a month, that page will still load very quickly, likely even faster than a warmed-up WordPress instance. It depends on the hosting platform, but static websites can typically also handle massive traffic spikes without any extra effort, and at a much lower cost. Your small self-hosted WordPress site, by comparison, could fall over when one of your posts goes viral.

    Another benefit to static websites is their security. Because it’s just plain files, there is much less attack surface. As long as your account is secure, it should be impossible for an attacker to modify the content. Even if someone did, the content and site generator can be kept separate, so the site can easily be replaced with fresh, clean content. With a WordPress site, you have the running server, the WordPress software, and the database all running in the cloud. They are prone to bugs and attacks like any other cloud infrastructure, and they need to be updated regularly to keep them secure.

    Comments and contact pages on a static website

    The biggest drawback to static websites is that they are, well, static. There are a few tricks you can use, but some features are much more difficult to implement. For a simple blog like mine, this wasn’t a problem.

    Comments are a common blog feature that is trivial for a dynamic site to implement. For this blog, I recently set up utterances. It uses GitHub Issues (in a free public repository) like a database to store comments, and retrieves / renders them on each page with a bit of client-side javascript. This way I don’t need to run hexo generate every time someone posts a comment.

    A reader does need a GitHub account to add a comment with this system, but this seems like a reasonable limitation given my audience. There are other static-capable comment systems available, each with different styles and storage mechanisms. There are commercial offerings too, which may or may not be more expensive than using a hosted WordPress site for your blog to begin with.

    I don’t have a contact form on this site, but I easily set one up on another static website using getform. For the frequency of messages I expect there, it should also be free.

    It gets unfortunately difficult to push much further than this on a static website. Some things can be done with client-side javascript or advanced application firewalls, but these can get complicated and/or expensive pretty quickly. It may be worth it if you want the scalability advantages of a static site, but if you just want a cheap website with a couple of dynamic features, a hosted WordPress site may be your best bet.

    HTTPS and custom domains

    The main reason I left WordPress on GoDaddy was the desire to move my blog to HTTPS. Nowadays it’s not that hard to get a free certificate from Let’s Encrypt, but the certificates don’t last very long, so it’s best to automate the process. At the time I changed, automating this wasn’t possible with the package I had from GoDaddy. I could have changed to a more expensive virtual machine option or bought a proper certificate. I went with option 3 instead.

    HTTPS requires a certificate, and the certificate has to contain the domain name of the website you’re using it for. That means that you need a custom certificate to go with your custom domain name. The good news is that many hosting services can procure certificates on your behalf, and some will do it for free.

    GitHub Pages is one of these services, and it was easy to set up. There were a couple of steps necessary so they could validate that I had control of the domain, but now they just take care of it for me. They can also provide redirects from HTTP to HTTPS, and from www to the apex website. GitHub Pages has good documentation if you want to set this up for yourself.

    Price of static websites

    Because GitHub Pages is free (for public repositories, at the time of this writing), the only thing I’m paying for is the domain name and the DNS service, both of which I get from AWS. The .ca domain costs $13 USD per year, and the Route53 hosted zone costs me $0.90 USD per month (the minimum possible since I don’t exceed the initial usage limits). This is much less than I was paying GoDaddy for a virtual server.

    There are a few equivalents to GitHub Pages that are also free. There are also cheaper options than AWS for domain registration and DNS.

    If you don’t want the hassle of setting this all up, there are lots of hosted WordPress solutions around, and other blogging/website platforms too. Some of these are even free, but the free ones each have their own limitations. I haven’t searched exhaustively, but I don’t know of any free options that support custom domains and control over advertising.

    Creating, editing, and publishing posts

    It can take a bit of effort to get a static site generator set up and configured with a nice theme, but things get easier once you have it all working. You still need to run a few commands in a terminal, which will be too much for some people. Even the mildly technically challenged should be able to keep themselves going with a few basic commands written down. This is what I use:

    When I want to start a new post, I use the hexo new command:

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    hexo new draft 'This Blog: Hexo-generated static site hosted on GitHub Pages'

    This command generates a markdown file in the draft folder with some initial “front-matter”. I can then edit the content in any text editor I wish. These days I use VS Code. Markdown is a very simple mostly-text format for making pages that is very easy to learn. Front-matter is a bit of data about the page that go at the top of the document such as the title, publish date, tags, categories, and so on. You can see an example of what this looks like in the source for the Hexo documentation.

    If I want to see how a page will look (for example: if I’m using some tricky markdown syntax), I use hexo server --drafts. This hosts a website on my computer that looks exactly like the blog will when I publish it. I also sometimes use commands like hexo list tag --draft to make sure I’m using the same tags across multiple posts.

    Once I’m happy with a post, I run the hexo publish command:

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    hexo publish 'This Blog: Hexo-generated static site hosted on GitHub Pages'

    The main thing this does is move the file and its attachments from the drafts folder into the posts folder. It also renames the file and updates the front-matter with the published date and time. You could do this manually, but the command is quick and reliable. Then I need to re-generate the static content for publishing:

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    hexo generate

    This goes through all the content files and configuration and generates everything needed for the website. The new post gets its own folder and html file, but it will also cause changes to the front page and a number of peripheral pages. The theme I’m using supports paging, so it also pushes the post at the bottom of the front page back to page 2, the bottom post from page 2 to page 3, and so on. There are also the tag, category, and archive pages that get updated similarly. It might seem like a lot, but I assure you, the software doesn’t mind.

    After this, it’s a simple matter of uploading the content to my hosting provider. In the case of GitHub Pages, this means copying it to the website repository, commiting, and then pushing the branch. Nowadays I use a PowerShell script to generate, copy, commit, and push in a single step.

    I use Git and GitHub to manage my hexo folders because I am very comfortable with these tools. This isn’t necessary though. You could just as easily store your hexo files on a cloud drive. You could store it on your local hard drive too, but I highly recommend using somewhere that has automatic backups and some form of change history.

    Because I’m using drafts for incomplete posts, I commit and push any changes I’ve made regularly. The drafts aren’t included in the generated site, so I can keep a few sitting around while publishing other posts or changes. I originally went a little bonkers with a branch-per-post but found it made my process unnecessarily complicated.

    You can simplify publishing your site further. Some static page providers can automatically run the generate step for you. I chose not to do this for my blog because I didn’t want my drafts and their edit history to be visible in the public repository (as a public repository is required to use Pages for free). There are other options that don’t have this limitation.

    Converting from WordPress to Hexo

    Most of the work of migrating was achieved using a WordPress export file and the Hexo migration tool:

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    hexo migrate wordpress wordpress-export.xml --paragraph-fix --import-image original

    It took a bit of fiddling after this to get everything working perfectly. I had some issues with my code snippets (I was using a gist plugin in WordPress), and some of the attachment references didn’t work with my theme. The nice thing about working with markdown files is that it was really easy to search for patterns once I found them. With Git and branches, I could also quickly test fixes and revert them if they didn’t work.

    I didn’t have a lot of content when I made the switch, but it only took me a few hours.

    Summary

    Static websites can be cheaper, perform better, and require less maintenance than self-hosted options. They have their limitations, but for a simple blog like mine, it was an easy choice that I’m still happy with.

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    Managing Priorities Outside of Work

    2011-10-06
    I’ve been fortunate to take some serious down time during the summer. After working pretty much non-stop for ten years, things have piled up. I took some time to rest, then got to work on some personal projects that have been neglected far too long. What I’ve learned, however, is that it takes more than time to get things done. After about a month, pretty much all I’d achieved was completing a cou...

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    Doubling Data for Performance Testing

    2011-08-11
    Or: The Most Impressive T-SQL Script I’ve Ever Written I was recently working on a new application. After three months in the field, users were starting to complain about performance issues. We had done some limited performance tuning for the first release, and more as part of the second release, but new issues were popping up as more data got entered into the system. We could have continued fixin...

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    The Critical Path

    2011-06-25
    For the last ten years, if you had asked, I would have told you with some conviction that a “critical path” is a kind of test script that tests the essential functionality of a system. If the app passes it’s critical path test, I would have said, it may not delight users, but it’s unlikely that they’ll storm your basement with torches and pitchforks. -It came up at work during a discussion about in...

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    Consulting - A Brave New World

    2011-05-23
    I’ve taken a big step in my career. I’ve become a software consultant. -The decision to leave my job of three and a half years wasn’t an easy one. I was working with some fantastic people, building the best software we could, but at the end of the day I wasn’t learning. The work was challenging, but the challenges were mostly non-technical. In this business, if you’re not moving forward you may as ...

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    The Average Test

    2011-04-30
    I was conducting technical interviews recently for a senior developer position. I like to talk about a bunch of things, but there is one question I particularly enjoy asking each candidate. Write an implementation for this: +

    Consulting - A Brave New World

    2011-05-23
    I’ve taken a big step in my career. I’ve become a software consultant. +The decision to leave my job of three and a half years wasn’t an easy one. I was working with some fantastic people, building the best software we could, but at the end of the day I wasn’t learning. The work was challenging, but the challenges were mostly non-technical. In this business, if you’re not moving forward you may as ...

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    The Average Test

    2011-04-30
    I was conducting technical interviews recently for a senior developer position. I like to talk about a bunch of things, but there is one question I particularly enjoy asking each candidate. Write an implementation for this: 1234int Average(int a, int b){} It’s a great question because it’s a simple problem, and anyone that comes through the door should know the formula without having to...

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    Working Together and Having Fun

    2011-01-30
    We did one of our monthly releases at work this week. Releases can be stressful and frustrating, and take a lot of methodical preparation to get right. It can be thankless work too; the only time a user notices a release is when it goes badly. We do our releases early on a week day to minimize impact, so if anything does go wrong, there’s not many bodies around to help out. It’s not much fun, but ...

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    When to Add an ORM Tool

    2011-01-03
    I’m working on the code that parses VCalendar data so that it can be processed. I’m copying the data I care about into a simple data structure that can represent a calendar request in any format. Any logic that interacts with calendar requests would use this internal structure. I want it to be simple, only having the stuff that I need, but I don’t want to completely re-invent the wheel either, so ...

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    Teaching IT

    2010-12-24
    My company runs a 24/7 site with a substantial number of users and connections to partner systems all over the world. We do what we can to make the system fault tolerant, but problems can still appear at any time of day or night. Ideally we would have a technical support team that’s staffed around the clock, but that not in the cards for now. We used to have a system where anyone that could f...

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    Invitations and the VCard Format

    2010-12-16
    My next goal for the Themis project is to parse an invitation from an email. I am starting with invitations generated by MS Outlook because that’s my target audience, but a peak inside of a Google Calendar invitation gives me hope that I’ll be able to support multiple calendars without much trouble. -Outlook invitations are sent in the VCalendar format, content type “text/calendar”. The standa...

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    64-bit IIS vs. 32-bit Assemblies

    2010-11-11
    I found my first 64-bit bug at work. I was moving a windows service built for the ‘Any CPU’ to a 64-bit server. It started fine on the new server, and gave no indication of poor health in the logs, but one key function was malfunctioning. I’m not exactly sure what the cause is, but I know that the hash of any binary file was resulting in the same value. The service does some direct memory manipula...

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    SQLite vs. SQL CE 3.5 with Entity Framework 4

    2010-10-31
    My wife and I have been taking a Japanese class. I’m enjoying it quite a bit, even though learning languages has never been easy for me. I need to work hard to memorize all the new words, and that means lots and lots of practice. +

    64-bit IIS vs. 32-bit Assemblies

    2010-11-11
    I found my first 64-bit bug at work. I was moving a windows service built for the ‘Any CPU’ to a 64-bit server. It started fine on the new server, and gave no indication of poor health in the logs, but one key function was malfunctioning. I’m not exactly sure what the cause is, but I know that the hash of any binary file was resulting in the same value. The service does some direct memory manipula...

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    SQLite vs. SQL CE 3.5 with Entity Framework 4

    2010-10-31
    My wife and I have been taking a Japanese class. I’m enjoying it quite a bit, even though learning languages has never been easy for me. I need to work hard to memorize all the new words, and that means lots and lots of practice. My wife bought a pack of index cards. This is what a normal person would do. To me, it seems like defeat. Why use paper when there’s a computer in the room? While she’s a...

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    IE9 Try and Fail

    2010-09-22
    I decided to give IE9 a try. What’s not to like about a browser that’s supposed to be faster, cleaner, and support new HTML features? They really nailed the faster and cleaner parts. I didn’t find the user interface in IE8 too busy, but seeing the improvement I’m happy for the extra space. Plunking a site onto my task bar like it were an application is pretty awesome. There are a couple of website...

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    Themis: System Design

    2010-09-14
    I’m charging forward on the Shared Resource Schedule Service. There are a lot of things I’m getting into place before I start writing code. Don’t try to tell me that I’m not being agile either, you always need to design a little to write good code. The key to being agile is designing only as much as you need, and being prepared to change your mind later. The NameThe first order of business was to ...

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    My First Open Source Project

    2010-09-04
    I’ve been spending time on the first part of the shared resource service project: “Receive event invitations by email and send an acceptance email”. I hadn’t considered the difficulty I would face receiving emails. This is the most important part of the application, and if I can’t make it work, there’s really no point to continue. I don’t want to write my own POP3 library, I’ve done that before an...

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    Changing From an iPod to a Creative Zen

    2010-08-31
    The time finally came for me to replace my iPod with something new. I was using aniPod click wheelthat I got as a warranty replacement back in 2004.It was good to me, but I felt that it was time to look at other options.If iTunes ran a little better on my PC, I probably would have just bought another iPod without a second thought. -HardwareIt took me quite a while to choose a new device. I did look...

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    SQL Management Studio Express with VS 2010 Express

    2010-08-10
    I had some fun trying to install SQL Management Studio on my home computer over the weekend. I was successful in the end, but it was a rough journey. -These seem to be the things that can lead you into my scenario: - -Windows 7 -Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (which installs SQL Server 2008 Express) - -These are the things I ran into trying to install SQL Management Studio (both from an SQL 2008 stan...

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    Shared Resource Service Requirements

    2010-08-08
    I want to start my project by dividing up the various things the system needs to do, then put them into the order I plan to approach them. I want to start with requirements that are the most risky and most important to success first, and work my way down the list until I finish with items that are neither risky nor important. +

    SQL Management Studio Express with VS 2010 Express

    2010-08-10
    I had some fun trying to install SQL Management Studio on my home computer over the weekend. I was successful in the end, but it was a rough journey. +These seem to be the things that can lead you into my scenario: + +Windows 7 +Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (which installs SQL Server 2008 Express) + +These are the things I ran into trying to install SQL Management Studio (both from an SQL 2008 stan...

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    Shared Resource Service Requirements

    2010-08-08
    I want to start my project by dividing up the various things the system needs to do, then put them into the order I plan to approach them. I want to start with requirements that are the most risky and most important to success first, and work my way down the list until I finish with items that are neither risky nor important. This approach gives me several advantages. It’s not an issue in this cas...

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    Shared Resource Schedule Service

    2010-07-28
    I think I’ve got a new project to work on at home. We’ve got this problem at work coordinating a few shared resources in Outlook (like a couple of meeting rooms and a projector), but we couldn’t find any good solutions out there short of installing Exchange Server. I’ve been wanting to play around with Entity Framework a bit, so this should be a good candidate. Perhaps I can slap a UI on it using ...

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    My First Post

    2010-07-27
    I’ve finally gone and done it. To be honest, creating my own blog wasn’t foremost in my thoughts until fairly recently. Scott Hanselman had a couple of interesting videos on his blog that finally convinced me to do it. I hope you like it. -

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