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 […]
2009
Data flow diagrams
Just explained my project to a new team member and realized UML does not have standard way of expressing data flow diagrams. Indeed, it is an object-oriented toolset, and data […]
WPF 3D Demo is Here
I have finally published it. WPF 3D demo demonstrates features such as 3D bodies (duh!), control templates, data binding, etc.
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 […]
Automating .NET Executables Using COM
In one of my projects I needed to script a class inside a .NET executable. .NET has very good support for in-proc COM components: you create a class library, add […]
Books
I have finally bought a modern OOA/D book: Craig Larman, “Applying UML and Patterns”). Martin Fowler recommends it as a good OO book in his “Patterns of Enterprise Applications Architecture“, […]
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: […]
About Time Zones and Humility
I am discovering for myself the world of RSS, ATOM, and blog feed aggregators. I tried to find out what’s the difference between RSS and ATOM (here is a good […]
Lashing out at VB6 collections
Someone I could not refuse asked me to “take a look” at some Excel macros written in Visual Basic For Applications (VBA), which is a limited version of VB6 running […]