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A realistic log4net config
Most log4net config file examples show the simplest case. Here is a more realistic example of a production log4net config that uses multiple appenders. This comes from an ASP.NET application, but the same technique will work in a server or client application...
Posted 15 March 2007 12:34 PM by Ted_Graham | 7 comment(s)
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Software Startup Series
My series highlighting helpful information for software startups is now in the 8th week. I started this as a way to communicate helpful information with my partners, but it is starting to get some traffic and take on a life of its own. The micro-ISV movement...
Posted 09 March 2007 11:30 AM by Ted_Graham | 2 comment(s)
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Subversion Hosting
I'm always shocked when I encounter people and projects that aren't using version control. After years of knowing that I can rollback to a previous version, working on files that aren't versioned scares me. I keep everything possible checked...
Posted 02 January 2007 06:19 PM by Ted_Graham | 2 comment(s)
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Copyright for Software Companies
Most programmers only think about copyright when management decrees that every file needs a copyright notice at the top or bottom. Next month, I’m sure a junior developer somewhere will be assigned to update the copyright date on a source tree to...
Posted 27 December 2006 10:09 AM by Ted_Graham | with no comments
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Google Search API fails sporadically with "502 Bad Gateway"
I heard about Google's web service interface to the search database back when it was released, but today was my first attempt to use it. I'm trying to learn python, but the SOAP toolkits for python seem to be in a state of flux so I switched back...
Posted 22 November 2006 02:37 PM by Ted_Graham | with no comments
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Web Service performance numbers--plenty fast for UI work
While designing Web Services, the question of "interface granularity" often comes up. Conventional wisdom is that Web Service calls are slow, so the interface must be quite coarse to prevent performance problems. Four years ago, a partner and...
Posted 15 November 2006 04:12 PM by Ted_Graham | with no comments
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