Green Dragon's Lair

The root cause for application performance problems might seem to be totally unrelated

I just read a post on If broken it is, fix it you should , where he's debugging a performance problem in an ASP.Net application . The most recent one was one where the ASP.NET site would respond slowly at regular intervals (read: it grinded to a halt...

Published Sat, May 05 2008 1:11 PM by admin

Playing with XNA - Part 1

I've been playing with XNA a bit lately. Here's what I've got so far. From what I've seen at the tutorials on the web, they don't show to work with XNA in an OO way, so this sample might be useful to get a starting point. (I know about...

Published Fri, May 05 2008 7:32 AM by admin

Thinking about where I want to go

Things have been pretty hectic at work lately, so I haven't had much time to write here. Recently things have reached a plateu of some sort, so I'm coming home earlier and got some free time. I'm thinking about what do I want to do with that...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 11:07 AM by admin

Fixed Length Strings in Antlr

I've been doing some work recently with Antlr parsing a syntax file from an ERP system that enables you to output changes you've done to one system and take them to another system. The problem was that the syntax was simple enough to be parsed...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 11:07 AM by admin

Invalid attempt to MetaData when reader is closed - Solved

I'm working with NHibernate and ActiveRecord, and a few months ago I started getting InvalidOperationException - Invalid attempt to MetaData when reader is closed whenever I'd run queries inside a SessionScope. It took me a bit of time, but I...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 11:06 AM by admin

Done upgrading to CS 2008

Well, I'm finally done upgrading to CS 2008 (or rather, wiping everything and starting anew, since apparently I've had a version that was too old, and the upgrader was having troubles with). I'll be importing some of the previous blog posts...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2008 10:07 PM by admin

Chasing down a FileNotFoundException with no filename

I've spend 9 hours today after deploying the server side WCF service of our POS application chasing down the most bizzare exception I've ever seen. I got a FileNotFoundException that didn't had a filename, and that gave me an HRESULT of 0x8007007E...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2007 1:03 PM by admin

Ambiguous Match Found exception and a recursive function

I've had the wildest goose chase this thursday hunting down a bug... I'm using ActiveRecord, and was calling ActiveRecordStarter.Initialize, when I started getting an AmbiguousMatchFound from ActiveRecord. From the little that there was out there...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2007 12:34 PM by admin

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