Sunday, January 31, 2010

Upgrade causes loss of f5 networks host plugin

Upgrade causes loss of f5 networks host plugin: "I need the F5 Networks Host Plugin (version 6020.2009.0202.1108) too, so I managed to install and tested it on Firefox 3.5.2 and it works well as far as I have tested it.
Why F5 Network didn't fix it, I don't know...
To install it :
- download the urhostplg.xpi file
- rename it in urhostplg.zip and unzip it
- change the version limit in 'install.rdf' file :
From :3.1.*
To : 3.5.*
- zip and rename to urhostplg.xpi
- drag and drop the .xpi on Firefox to install it"

Pushing to a Git repository using the wrong case causes peculiar behavior (maybe involves --forcing)

I was fetching from a Github repository while working at home, and I kept getting the following error:

Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
From github.com:sidecut/Quest-Paperless
 + 22b4432...7d00da0 TRY-remove-LLBLGEn -> origin/TRY-remove-LLBLGEn  (forced update)
error: Ref refs/remotes/origin/TRY-remove-LLBLGen is at 7d00da03b4a76116ffbaf89a4b5f6d54aeba9810 but expected 22b4432207570926a71d969a7ff8da821bf68354
 ! 22b4432..cddedc1  TRY-remove-LLBLGen -> origin/TRY-remove-LLBLGen  (unable to update local ref)

As evident from gitk, the remote branch refused to advance farther, but I could continue to push to that branch from the office. (Notice the git fetch output mentioned a forced update. I don't remember, frankly, whether I pushed it in that way from the office

The culprit was hiding in plain site: the error message showed that the branch names that differed only in case:
TRY-remove-LLBLGEn
TRY-remove-LLBLGen


The solution? Dropped the branch TRY-remove-LLBLGEn and recreated it using the proper case:
git push origin :TRY-remove-LLBLGEn
git push origin TRY-remove-LLBLGen

Monday, January 25, 2010

Web Service Functional Testing - Tips and Tricks Login Security - soapUI

Web Service Functional Testing - Tips and Tricks Login Security - soapUI: "Before we look into the tests, we have to be aware of what we're looking for, so first let's state this; large part of hacking often is not about actually gaining access to a system, but rather exposing system behavior in order to be able to get access to it later. This means large parts of our testing is not about cracking the system, but rather expose behavior in your web service that exposes how it works. Our first Tip is an example of this."

Friday, January 22, 2010

Youssef Moussaoui's WCF blog : How to Change .NET Configuration Files at Runtime (including for WCF)

I gotta try this. This was brought to my attention by the wonderful blog The Morning Brew by Chris Alcock, a daily compendium of .NET news and product announcements. Chris is in the UK, so the news is available first thing in the morning for us Yanks before we've even gotten out of bed.

Youssef Moussaoui's WCF blog : How to Change .NET Configuration Files at Runtime (including for WCF): "How to Change .NET Configuration Files at Runtime (including for WCF)
One of the most common issues people run into with WCF configuration, and .NET applications in general, is that configuration files appear to be fixed. You only have one configuration file for an executable, and you can’t use different configuration files as your exe.config while the application is running. Of course, you can always shut down the application, change the configuration, and then restart it with the new configuration file, but that’s tedious and oftentimes undesirable. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to easily get around this limitation."

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

SharpTemplate � Xtreem Geek

Nikhilk (Script# author) himself pointed this out:

SharpTemplate � Xtreem Geek: "SharpTemplate is a HTML templating engine that seamlessly integrates with Script# to provide compile time, strongly typed, super efficient HTML templating capabilities for productive rich web application development.� Some of its advantages are listed below…

Converts HTML into C# that gets compiled by Script#
Benefits from strong typing for all variable / API references that occur within the HTML
Generated HTML templates are super efficient due to compile time pre-processing that helps avoid regex matching in JavaScript unlike many other templating engines
Familiar templating syntax (based upon Asp.Net)
If you are not already using some sort of compile time HTML templating with Script# then you must definitely give this a try and see the productivity boost for yourself.

SharpTemplate has Script# as its prerequisite.� It can work in VS2008, VS2010 and Visual C# express."

Thursday, January 14, 2010

[ANN] DC ALT.NET – 1/27/2010 - Clojure

Maybe I should look at Clojure? It targets .NET! (Emphasis added in the quote below.)
[ANN] DC ALT.NET – 1/27/2010 - Clojure: "Simply put, Clojure is a dynamic general purpose programming language that targets both the Java Virtual Machine as well as the .NET CLR. This language, which is a dialect of Lisp, combines the ease of an interactive development scripting language with something that makes it stand out, which is a robust concurrency infrastructure. Parts of the concurrency story that are interesting is both a software transactional memory (STM) system as well as a reactive agent system much like the Mailboxes we’ve covered here in F#. What also makes Clojure interesting is that it is predominantly a functional language with a rich set of immutable data structures.

The Clojure site is the best place to get started which includes the language features reference, basic tutorials, screencasts and more. For those who wish to get Clojure working on the CLR, there are great instructions at the Git repository for ClojureCLR. In the future, I’ll cover more of the language, but these two references should be enough to get you started."

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

DotNet JQuery (DNJ) : new features in version 0.4.0

DotNet JQuery (DNJ) : new features in version 0.4.0: "This articles describes new implemented features in version 0.4.0 : Client events, 3rd party extensions and resource management"

Wow. I will have to check this out.

Check Out the Newest Additions to the Control Gallery!

Check Out the Newest Additions to the Control Gallery!: "Download a free newsletter generator, a professional user dashboard toolkit, and a free image resizer in recent additions to the ASP.NET Control Gallery."

Maybe the dashboard will work for Vendor Web?