Where to put log files in Windows?
Following up on the previous post. Linux (and UNIX in general) has a centralized location for logs: that’s /var/log. Windows does not. The original idea was that you are supposed […]
Hacker’s diary
Setting Folder Security in MSI
I had a surprisingly difficult time trying to figure out how to set folder permissions in my windows service installer. Here’s the story: I have a Windows service that writes […]
What’s in a name? A patch by any other name would work as sweet
This week-end I was playing with some sources and I wanted to apply some patches to them. So, I downloaded patch.exe from GNU and tried to run it on Windows […]
Should URLs depend on underlying server technology?
I ran into an interesting problem when I was brushing up my web site lately. Let’s say I had a static HTML page named http://www.ikriv.com/page.html. Now, I decided to use […]
WCF Configuration: Thou Shalt Not Hard Code
WCF comes with a very handy configuration language that allows you to define bindings, end point properties and the like. Doing the same in code is a) tedious, b) inflexible: […]
One more time about TFS
Every day when I open my solution in Visual Studio I get this message box: After that Visual Studio checks out my solution file and a number of project files, […]
WPF: Cannot Combine Bindings and Other Text
It is not a big deal, but still unpleasant. It is not possible to do something like <TextBlock Text=”Speed: {Binding Path=Speed} mph” /> The text in the squiggles appears verbatim […]
WPF: Pack URIs: what's the point of all the commas?
WPF uses “pack” URI schema to point to resources. An absolute pack URI looks like this: pack://application:,,,/ResourceFile.xaml The schema is described in this MSDN article and they claim the URIs […]
Trying NHibernate
I was recently doing and small research project and got kinda tired of mechanically spitting out all those boring chants like using (var cmd = new SqlCommand(“SELECT foo, bar FROM […]
How I lost name resolution
One not so bright day I connected my laptop to the home network and discovered that I lost name resolution. I.e., I could ping other computers by IP address, but […]