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• Firewall in between web and database servers can cause intermittent problems

  This story starts, as all stories should, with me sitting on a beach outside of Sao Paolo, Brazil. My team was releasing some bug fixes to our production setup (we do this every week). When I got back, I saw that our sites were having very intermittent... Posted Nov 26 2007, 10:37 AM by uber1024 with | with no comments Filed under: ASP.NET / SQL Server, SQL Server

• New Year's Resolution for 2007

  As the technical director for our company, it's up to me to chart a path for the company through the next year and beyond. My current plan involves: 1. Less dependence on Microsoft Let me explain why. I've been a developer who has been using almost... Posted Jan 08 2007, 04:00 PM by uber1024 with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET / SQL Server, Career, .NET, Visual Studio

• Intermittant problems opening Access files on a web server

  One of the more popular features on one of our websites is a page where users can upload Access databases that the website will then open (with ADO -- it's an ASP-based application). This mechanism was in place long before I got here, or I would have... Posted Feb 24 2006, 01:26 PM by uber1024 with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET / SQL Server

• File downloads from IIS 6.0

  So we've moved 8 websites from Win2k to Win2k3. Some things have gone smoothly, some things have made me want to become a Buddhist monk (which actually wouldn't be that tough since I train in kung fu at a Buddhist temple here in Manhattan). One of the... Posted Jan 20 2006, 02:58 PM by uber1024 with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET / SQL Server

• AJAX to secure servers: semi-resolution

  I had previously talked about a problem making XMLHTTP requests from IE to our secure (HTTPS) webserver. Microsoft support was very understanding but in the end it came down to this: "We can't help you. We've known about this but have no resolution. If... Posted Jan 10 2006, 04:10 PM by uber1024 with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET / SQL Server

• Email woes when upgrading from Win2K to Win2k3

  The SMTP standard, which no one not featured in the mockumentary "Trekkies" has read, states that bare linefeeds ( "\n" ) are not allowed in the SMTP standard. Qmail servers interpret this strictly. There are qmail fanboy articles explaining why this... Posted Jan 10 2006, 04:04 PM by uber1024 with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET / SQL Server

• Update: AJAX to secure servers bug

  So, we tried just about everything that can be done within a day (replaced the web service with a proxy ASP page, ran the .send() method in a loop and checked for a valid result, maybe something else ... I don't know. I'm working on 2 hours of sleep)... Posted Jan 04 2006, 09:51 AM by uber1024 with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET / SQL Server

• Problems with AJAX on secure servers

  At my company, we use a hand-rolled AJAX solution (it's about 2-3 years old, otherwise we probably would have used someone else's solution). Recently, we've applied it to one of our secure (HTTPS) websites and we've been having intermittant problems with... Posted Jan 03 2006, 12:23 PM by uber1024 with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET / SQL Server

• Is it just me, or is upgrading to Win2k3 more painful than it has to be?

  In the latest of a series of moves that appear to be designed to get as many decision-makers as possible to want to find an alternative to MS products, we've been moving a lot of our websites from Win2k Server to Win2k3 Servers. The nicest thing I can... Posted Dec 27 2005, 11:13 AM by uber1024 with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET / SQL Server

• The AJAX Sucks emails that are making the rounds

  I've gotten about 7 different lists of "Top 10 Reasons Why AJAX is Teh Suck" recently and I have to say that I'm disappointed. They're not quite as well thought out as the "Top 10 Reasons Why Captain Kirk Is Better Than Captain Picard" emails I used to... Posted Oct 15 2005, 08:38 PM by uber1024 with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET / SQL Server