I’ve spent the last couple of months in a new job, new project, etc..  The project I’m working on deals with securities data and the application's scope is very interesting.  We’re using a combination of ASPX and ASMX services for the consumer-facing services and WinForms apps on the back-end.    When I started...

I'm looking at distributing a C# assembly that provides access to a C/C++ dll.  On first thought, I was thinking I didn't need the GAC so long as a user is aware of where the C# assembly and C dll directory is.  As I think about this, since the C# assembly will be compiled and run elsewhere - will it be able to find the C dll...

I’ve been playing with Red-Gate’s Sql Dependency Viewer which is currently in Beta.  During this beta period, Red-Gate  is allowing people to download the tool for free.   I’ve run into a few dependency viewers based on sysdepends in various blogs, but I’ve always run into problems with one project I worked on.  The...

The manual consists primarily of a function reference, but also contains a language reference, explanations of some of PHP's major features, and other supplemental information.

The manual consists primarily of a function reference, but also contains a language reference, explanations of some of PHP's major features, and other supplemental information.

From the same team that brought you the award winning Mambo CMS, OSM has taken their final stable version of Mambo (4.5.2.3), given it a spring clean and named it Joomla! 1.0, and it includes several features that were going to be released in Joomla! 1.1.

From the same team that brought you the award winning Mambo CMS, OSM has taken their final stable version of Mambo (4.5.2.3), given it a spring clean and named it Joomla! 1.0, and it includes several features that were going to be released in Joomla! 1.1.

From the NYPHP, one of the largest and most active PHP user groups, is this growing series of articles contributed by many of the diverse members of the PHP development community. Categories include AMP setup, site development and programming techniques.

From the NYPHP, one of the largest and most active PHP user groups, is this growing series of articles contributed by many of the diverse members of the PHP development community. Categories include AMP setup, site development and programming techniques.

Drupal is a multi-platform Content Management System (CMS) that supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL backends, with a database abstraction layer that can be extended to add other RDBMS. Version 4.6+ is PHP 5 compatible. Too many features to enumerate here.

Drupal is a multi-platform Content Management System (CMS) that supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL backends, with a database abstraction layer that can be extended to add other RDBMS. Version 4.6+ is PHP 5 compatible. Too many features to enumerate here.

An object-oriented, open-source, open-standards framework for developing Web applications in PHP, as well as a set of existing applications including IMP, Turba, Kronolith, Nag and Mnemo. Phew! Supports localization features such as Unicode and RTL text.

An object-oriented, open-source, open-standards framework for developing Web applications in PHP, as well as a set of existing applications including IMP, Turba, Kronolith, Nag and Mnemo. Phew! Supports localization features such as Unicode and RTL text.

I've been pretty quite lately - job change plus other changes have had me pretty heads down. I've started into a new position where we're in the middle of a 1.0 product release - the benefits of testing approaches are always so apparent at these times.  I'm spending the morning the catching up on email but thought I'd take a break to talk...

I blogged about some problems we were having with an EMC NAS device and file locking with C#/.Net.  It turns out the differences between the file systems were causing strange problems - it looked like phantom processes were holding locks on the files. One of the guys on our team nailed this problem by using the NFS support in Windows...