November 2008 - Posts

Paging is not so easy as most developers think it is
Published Fri, Nov 21 2008 4:07 PM | Ramon Smits
A lot of websites use somekind of paging mechanish to limit the results shown. Either to save bandwidth where results are served in pages or because search criteria should be made more specific by not having paging but just limit the maximum records returned...
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What's your worst day as a coder?
Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 11:39 AM | Ramon Smits
Jeremy has a nice post called what's your worst day as a coder and I needed to post my own list: When I need to fix a bug in a module and opening a 7500+ LOC (non generated) class file (that really happened somewhere in the past). When I interview...
Profile / ProfileBase SetPropertyValue
Published Thu, Nov 6 2008 6:41 PM | Ramon Smits
Just fixed a very nasty bug in one of the applications I'm developing. In the database world there is a name for this bug which at the moment does not come up in my mind, I think it is called a 'lost write' but I'm not sure. Somewhere...
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WCF and http (gzip/deflate) compression and Silverlight
Published Thu, Nov 6 2008 11:11 AM | Ramon Smits

The last couple of days I've tried to see if it was possible to make use of standard http compression on WCF services as I had very good experiences with WSE and even asmx webservices that used http compression to save bandwidth - but more important - and have better response times for large xml messages.

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