A coworker gave me a hint: Learn how to use Process Monitor! Using this tool you can get tons of really useful information. Can be used to find where stuff is logged, the general flow of execution, et.c..

After talking to a few of my colleges I’m thinking of the different kind of programmers needed for different projects, for different aspects of projects. Duct tape programmer:http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html Writing code that ships. Does not necessarily need to look clean. Will probably not write any unit-tests. No fancy abstractions, no patterns or anything. Maintenance programmer:http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/06/the-noble-art-of-maintenance-programming.html Have had every so[...]

After listening to a podcast from hanselminutes I started thinking about the possibility of a google app engine like service for .net: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee677170.aspx

Finished upgrading an old site to use dojo and codeignite. In order to simplify things I added the RTE editor in order to simplify the code. There is no need to add logic related to the content on the page so html-content is preferable. excerpt from the content/editor.js: dojo.require("dijit.Editor"); dojo.require("dijit.form.TextBox"); dojo.require("dijit._editor.plugins.FontChoice"); dojo.require("dijit._editor.plugins.LinkDialog"); dojo.addOnLoad(function(){ dijit.byId('bodyeditor').setV[...]

Ever since I heard of the NoRM driver for MongoDB I had to try my hands on it. You can find it here:NoRM , mongodb The first thing is setting up the server. I dropped the binaries into C:\MongoDb<br> Next thing I created two batch files. To start the db: start.bat C:\MongoDb\bin\mongod.exe –dbpath C:\MongoDb\data –port 27000 –logpath C:\MongoDb\log\mongodb.log –logappend The other to access the mongo shell: shell.bat C:\MongoDb\bin\mongo.exe –port 27000 Next thing is creating a simple asp.net MVC app th[...]