Illuminated Ideas and Algorithms in Software. Friday, April 30, 2010. I Am Not A Developer. I am not a developer. I am a translator of user desires. While the developer codes what the user says. The translator codes what the user intends. Which is something that can only be done when the user is fully understood. We tell the computer what the users want to tell them.

Changing the identifier of a website in IIS. Whilst writing build scripts for our BizTalk environment, I recently had to change the identifier of a website in IIS to match the values on several other servers. After a bit of digging around it turns out the command is quite simple. One option is to use the very useful tool Metabase explorer.

The fastest road to good architecture. Adding a strong name key to the Highway. Pavement assembly so it can be referenced from signed assemblies. Added support for CoreCLR to the package. Until such time as they support CoreCLR themselves. The CoreCLR conversion of all of Highway Framework has begun, this is the first drop, more will come. Updated to remove chance of calling non-writable properties Thanks Ed Blakes.

Friday, March 26, 2010. I was playing around with Spring 3. 0 and the new Spring Expression Language SpEL the last couple of days and ran across a few issues. First the Spring documentation is a little lacking in this area so I am going to share what I have found. The key one for my use was finding the contextParameters. What I do is to setup a parameter name in my context xml file for Tomcat.

Monday, June 20, 2011. It may be easy to miss amidst all the hoopla around Windows 8 but the Norwegian Developers Conference just released all their session vidoes on the site. That are not product specific. Wednesday, June 15, 2011.

The volunteers were fantastic, the staff was supportive, the kids were inspiring,.