Disqus - Friends of zerok

Re: Wasted innovation: Google Wave

Tigraine — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:01:23 -0000

Well Sander,
what I meant by replace a message board is that one wave is hardly enough to replace a message board. There is no way in Wave at the moment to have multiple waves be somehow grouped to people. By making it public anyone can participate (something I found out only yesterday..), but how do you allow people to start a new topic inside a community of let's say 50 people?
That's where I see the problem.

greetings Daniel

Re: Wasted innovation: Google Wave

Tigraine — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:26:48 -0000

An invite should arrive during the coming week.

I agree that the technology has still way to go and mature, but at the moment I just feel like it tries really hard to replace email, while email already hat like 20 years to develop exactly into the tool we need it to be.

I've still got 4 invites to spare if anyone is interested.

Re: Wasted innovation: Google Wave

Tigraine — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:35:49 -0000

Sure no problem. Just send me your Gmail account by Email or Skype. (It only works with google accounts)

Oh, and I strongly encourage you to look at it :) those 20 minutes are great ;)

greetings Daniel

Re: Converting a IEnumerator to IEnumerator<T>

Tigraine — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:53:15 -0000

Oh thanks for the tip.
I didn't look into 3.5 solutions since that particular problem cropped up in a 2.0 solution..

greetings Daniel

Update:
Updated the post

Re: GDI Drawing: String with word-wrap

Tigraine — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:19:14 -0000

Thanks for sharing.
I would also have suggested feeding the same parameters you give to DrawString to MeasureString.

Re: Make me wait

Tigraine — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:23:35 -0000

Unfortunately I've seen this problem with many SVNs out there. Most of the time they don't suck that mutch, but still doing a svn log on most repositories takes close to forever in my experience.

But yes, you are right I shouldn't blame this on SVN alone. It's just that more often than not SVN performance sucks :(

Re: I’m in love with Android

Tigraine — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:19:41 -0000

Yes :) .. And guess what I did then?
I went out to buy a Apple Keyboard for my PC (Post upcoming).
And guess what happened then?

My old iPhone slipped and fell on my Apple Keyboard to scratch it.. Awesome when the only two Apple things in my household hurt each other..

Re: Locking with Linq to SQL’s deferred execution in an IQueryable<T> szenario

Tigraine — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:22:15 -0000

Hi Chuck, thanks for your comment.

You raise a valid point here.
I should have noted that I don't have ANY persistency story because this whole architecture is only for reading objects.
It's purely for displaying data, I don't have write access to the database at all. So for me the #1 priority was to read fast.

It made sense to have the Repository be a singleton since I use a caching layer above it as I wrote about here:
http://www.tigraine.at/2009/05/12/kaerntenat-ca... (yes, just recently, had some NDA issues before).

So anyway there will only be one initialization of the repository since the cache holds only one reference to the repository.

Sorry for the confusion.
greetings Daniel

Re: DateTime parsing in ASP.NET MVC RouteEngine

Tigraine — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:04:53 -0000

Not really.
I somewhat solved the problem by making the parameter on the controller action be a string and parse it manually. But that's far from a solution, more a workaround.

You could also extract those values from the RouteData.Values and parse them.

Re: Tests should last forever

Tigraine — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:35:39 -0000

The whole point of the posting was that if you initialize a variable in your test to DateTime.Now, your test changes dynamically at runtime. So if your code under test makes some checks to that variable, you'll end up with a test that isn't running 100% of the time.

If you initialize the variable to some fixed date where you know it should pass (like 1.1.2009 14:00), you can rerun the test under any condition, it will still pass as long as the code works as expected.

Re: Rant: BIOS update procedure fail

Tigraine — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:17:31 -0000

Hey thanks for the tip!
Unfortunately ASUS did a pretty good job in hiding this tool from their customers.
The instruction page on the main download page is this one here: http://support.asus.com/technicaldocuments/tech...
And there is no link to the Asus Update tool to be found, only the EZ Flash Utility.

Re: Google Reader Feature Request: Don’t mark feed as new

Tigraine — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:56:50 -0000

There are already desktop readers that synchronize with Google Reader.
Dare Obasanjo from Microsoft works on a free Feedreader called RSSBandit that can serve as a Desktop Client to Google Reader.

You can find RSSBandit at http://rssbandit.org/

Re: You have to know English to be a Programmer!

Tigraine — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:57:59 -0000

I don't translate them, I write them in english first because I usually base them on some sort of class diagram that's already in english.
I also try to have a very strong relationship between my objects and the real world, so I end up showing the customer many class diagrams that come from the code etc.

Re: Virtual member call in constructor and NHibernate

Tigraine — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:05:46 -0000

public virtual ISet<OrderItem> OrderItems
{
get { return orderItems_; }
set { orderItems_ = value; }
}

private ISet<OrderItem> orderItems_;

public Order()
{
orderItems_ = new HashedSet<OrderItem>();
}

I know it should work that way, but it doesn't.
Can't say why. But it doesn't work.

Maybe I should have added that the problem is occuring during my Repository unit tests. If I run the tests one by one it works, but if they get executed all together I get the exception.

I think I'll dedicate some more time to the problem tomorrow. But debugging concurrency issues sucks.

Re: Virtual member call in constructor and NHibernate

Tigraine — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:28:27 -0000

That didn't work.. I tried having a private field that gets accessed through the property and that gets set by the ctor..
I also tried to set the field on demand from the property, but both times I got the "Illegal attempt to associate a collection with two open sessions".

Thanks anyway, I guess initializing the collection isn't all that difficult after all :)

Re: Come to the dark side – we have cookies

Tigraine — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:45:43 -0000

I can't live without it either. It almost pains in the eye when I switch to Windows Explorer or something with it's white backgrounds...
Thanks!

Re: When drivers don’t get along

Tigraine — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:17:45 -0000

Erinnerst du dich an das Prblem mit "Das Touchpad vergisst seine einstellung bei reboot?" .. eines der Symptome meines Problems.

Re: Left on the web Mini - Campaign to promote the recycling of broken...

skoop — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:02:26 -0000

Oh, ik zou hierdoor zeker niet aan de recycle gaan. Gelukkig doe ik dat al ;)

maar hij's leuk, thats what matters.