Author Archives: Dann

Employers: Codility for testing your applicants!

This is about Codility Candidate Testing I just did a test on Codility and it’s great! In fact, this is sooo much than PreVisor (http://select2perform.com) which I had to use the other day. You can write your code in any … Continue reading

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World Countries – Simple Outlines in XML format

I needed the outlines of most countries for a simple GIS project that I’m doing. I managed to find a world simple shapes file from http://mappinghacks.com/ called TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.2.zip This was in a shapes format used by ARC GIS and the … Continue reading

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Firefox Ubiquity Command for StackOverflow

Just made a quick and dirty Ubiquity command for StackOverflow searches. Download from GitHub:  Ubiquity StackOverflow Search  Don’t know Ubiquity? It’s like a Command Line for the web but… it’s really cool! Trust me. Watch the clip below. Sure it … Continue reading

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Is Firefox using all your CPU? It’s probably Adobe Flash

  But how do you fix it? The weird thing is that to fix it, you install another program: Adobe Shockwave Don’t know how or why, but it fixes the high CPU usage where Firefox sits at 99% or 100% … Continue reading

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Godaddy Hosting – Medium Trust vs Inversion of Control

Whatever I think of Godaddy, they haven’t caused me too much pain yet, just minor inconvenience. This time it’s my precious StructureMap. StructureMap, I like it and alot of people do, but it just won’t work under Medium Trust! So … Continue reading

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NHibernate, IoC and removing that damn Log4Net dependency

Ok, so Log4Net is not that bad. It is a very good logging system, etc… So how do you perform IoC with the NHibernate logger? Well, you can’t. Unless you are ready to HACK CODE. That’s the brilliant thing about … Continue reading

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Global.asax Events and Descriptions

This is a direct quote from the Wikipedia page on Global.asax. Just thought it would be nice to a quick list to refer to. Application_Init Fires when the application initializes for the first time. Application_Start Fires the first time an … Continue reading

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Do you want France’s SFR neufbox in English?

  I had some time trying to work out the details on the ol’ neufbox, so here is a hint for getting it to be in English which makes life easier for non-francophones: Hold down the green button on top … Continue reading

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Asp.Net MVC 2 Action Results

A handy list of ActionResult’s that I found on StackOverflow thanks to Chris.S and his reference to the MSDN doc. ContentResult Writes a string value directly into the HTTP response. EmptyResult Does not write to the HTTP response. FileContentResult Takes … Continue reading

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Fantastic Intro to Prism

I stumbled across this excellent written / video tutorial with source when starting out in my Prism adventure. Prism for Silverlight – Silver Bay Labs I think this is the best starting out example I have found. It still requires … Continue reading

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