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Ajax Survey
From BradA: Simone Chiaretta is doing another Ajax survey to see how things have changed since his last survey a couple of years ago. I just filled it out (you should too!). The survey can be found here.
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Fabulous Adventures In Coding
If you don't read Eric Lippert's Fabulous Adventures In Coding, you're really missing out on some great stuff.
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XmlSerializer ignores Culture
I'm working with an automotive client that has a couple of data formats for some of their files. One is a simple CSV format and the other is XML using .NET's XML Serializer (nothing fancy). The CSV format is handy as it's easy for the engineers to quickly load it into Excel and view in a columnar format. The XML format was implemented as a much more "full featured" version of the data and contains additional metadata to describe the data. All of the maintenance of these files is very easy as we have a library for dealing with them.
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OutputDebugStringAppender in a web app?
I spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to get log4net to log to an OutputDebugStringAppender with no success. At first, I thought I had a configuration error in log4net so I added a file appender and that works fine. It's a Monorail application that uses ActiveRecord for database access. There's a couple of spots where I wanted to check out the SQL being generated by ActiveRecord (NHibernate). I did all my set up for log4net and even got it logging to a FileAppender. But I wanted to log the SQL to an OutputDebugStringAppender.
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New CodeMash Website
As you've probably heard (via Twitter), there's a new look to the CodeMash website. SRT Solutions and inner circle media have been working on the website for a while now getting things organized. Much of the praise for the new look goes to inner circle media – Catherine Hayes and Alaine Karoleff have put a lot of thought and design into the new site and it shows!