We had a requirement to provide a support forum in our online store for Secret Server which led to the classic "Buy vs. Build" decision. Build : The requirements were very simple and it could be developed in-house but who wants to write simple forum code when it has been done many times before?! Buy...

While this doesn't classify as great development practice, sometimes a well tested hotfix to a production site is just the right thing to solve a client's problem quickly. In our case, the problem was too many emails being sent due to ClientScriptExceptions (our own custom Exception that is thrown when...

I don’t know when it started or why, but I love Halloween (and autumn for that matter). So keeping the tradition of Halloween alive, I’ve decided to share some “horror” stories from the software/IT field over the next few weeks. The SQL Timeout… A few years ago, myself...

ShorterSigs is a new service from Thycotic Software which solves the problem of communicating relevant contact information (and even your photo!) without cluttering up your email messages. This is just what every techie needs whether posting to forums, newsgroups or just a friendly chat among your peers...

ShorterSigs is a new service from Thycotic Software which solves the problem of communicating relevant contact information (and even your photo!) without cluttering up your email messages. This is just what every techie needs whether posting to forums, newsgroups or just a friendly chat among your peers...

I don’t know when it started or why, but I love Halloween (and autumn for that matter). So keeping the tradition of Halloween alive, I’ve decided to share some “horror” stories from the software/IT field over the next few weeks. The SQL Timeout… A few years ago, myself...

We had a requirement to provide a support forum in our online store for Secret Server which led to the classic "Buy vs. Build" decision. Build : The requirements were very simple and it could be developed in-house but who wants to write simple forum code when it has been done many times before?! Buy...

While this doesn't classify as great development practice, sometimes a well tested hotfix to a production site is just the right thing to solve a client's problem quickly. In our case, the problem was too many emails being sent due to ClientScriptExceptions (our own custom Exception that is thrown when...

We recently had a problem on our development build server that had us puzzled. The ASP.NET tab disappeared and our CruiseControl.NET server quit working. We had seen the problem with CruiseControl.NET before - a serialization error on DateTime - and we knew it was related to running the dashboard in...