Windows 8: Dazed and Confused
So, it looks like we get two operating systems for the price of one. It has two styles of apps: one more suitable for a phone (a.k.a. “Metro” style) and […]
Creating ASP.NET membership database: no funky passwords!
To simplify creating and managing users in ASP.NET Microsoft created a lot of infrastructure that takes care of this boilerplate task. Part of the infrastructure is aspnet_regsql.exe utility that is […]
JAX-WS and @XmlRootElement
Just finished a fight with JAX-WS. It turns out that if I have a method like this: @WebService(targetNamespace=…) @SOAPBinding(parameterStyle = SOAPBINDING.ParameterStyle.BARE /* don’t ask */) class MyWebService { @WebMethod MyClass […]
It's the solar flares, stupid
“Three large explosions from the sun over the past few days have prompted U.S. government scientists to caution users of satellite, telecommunications and electric equipment to prepare for possible disruptions” […]
Hosting your own e-mail sevrer: no longer an option
Somone on Slashdot asked what are possible “Self-Hosted Gmail Alternatives?“. Unfortunately, it seems like in practice there are none. When I registered my domain, I used to run an e-mail […]
C# decimal.Parse() won't parse 1e-10
In C# code you can write something like decimal d = 1e-10m; However, decimal.Parse(“1e-10”) throws an exception: “System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format”. Not cool.
BackgroundWorker and UI threads
Popular belief (reinforced indirectly by MSDN) is that BackgroundWorker class will marshal the “progress” and “completed” events back to the calling thread. This turned out to be most certainly not […]
WPF Bindings Follow Up
I did more investigation on the bindings (duh, only two months later). It turns out the bindings are replaced when the value of the target dependency property is replaced. This […]
WPF Bindings
I am kinda tired of this MVVM/bindings crap. I feel like my hands are tied, for variety of reasons: 1. Bindings don’t work with properties of properties, because they rely […]
IRR and APR for Programmers
Following some discussion in LJ, I came up with this. http://www.ikriv.com/en/prog/info/irr/. Someday I may translate that into Russian 🙂