I can’t take credit for this one, but I just had to pass it on. Visual Stuart showed me this neat little trick for safely working with WCF proxies. The problem with WCF is that if the server throws an exception, it faults the channel. This means that basically, you need to shut down the […]
Read MoreTo start off, here are the links to my previous posts about CouchDB: Relaxing on the Couch(DB) Installing the Couch(DB) PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room GETting Documents From CouchDB DELETE Documents From CouchDB Adding Attachments to a Document in CouchDB So far, we’ve mostly talked about managing documents in CouchDB. Now I want […]
Read MoreTo start off, here are the links to my previous posts about CouchDB: Relaxing on the Couch(DB) Installing the Couch(DB) PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room GETting Documents From CouchDB DELETE Documents From CouchDB Today, I want to talk about how to create attachments for a document. Documents in CouchDB can have attachments just […]
Read MoreColin has set up a dedicated blog for the Europe Virtual ALT.NET gatherings. We’ll be posting all announcements, details of recordings and any related stuff to this blog. If you’re disgusted from your RSS reader, then maybe you’ll want to follow up on the announcements and other stuff via Twitter? We’ve created an account there […]
Read MoreOne thing I?ve been doing more and more of, especially as I use MSpec and context/spec driven development, is using lambdas and fluent-interface style programming to capture the essence of the spec?s I?m working on and keep them separate from the details of the code that implements them. What the heck does that mean? Well, […]
Read MoreAbout a year ago, I remember first hearing about Machine.Specifications (github) and trying it out for something I was developing. I liked it right away, especially the way it cut away a lot of the noise involved with writing tests/specifications. I never really ended up using MSpec on things at work. There were lots of […]
Read MoreTo start off, here are the links to my previous posts about CouchDB: Relaxing on the Couch(DB) Installing the Couch(DB) PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room GETting Documents From CouchDB Today, I want to talk about how to delete a document from CouchDB. In order to do that, we have to use the HTTP […]
Read MoreI can’t count the number of times someone has asked me about running a time consuming task on a separate thread, but at the same time show a progress dialog with up-to-the-second percentage updates being displayed to the user. Multithreading can be confusing at first, but if you just take it one step at a […]
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