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HOWTO: Fix Quickbooks Online Banking after bank name change
My bank’s name just changed and although they insisted up and down that this would make no different to my life, they were wrong. The name change killed my Quickbooks 2004 Online Banking integration. I used to be able to download my bank statements right into Quickbooks…but that broke. It said something like “cannot complete…
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Tech recruiters outsourcing phone work to India?
Ever get the feeling that IT recruiters are outsourcing phone work to India? I keep getting these calls with TERRIBLE line quality from people with Indian accents asking if I’m available for work. It’s like the agencies are cold calling everyone in their database on the off chance that someone’s available for some .NET work. …
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Using a run-time defined connection string with Enterprise Library's Data Access Block.
As you can probably tell from previous posts, I’m feel pretty mixed about on the Microsoft Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library Data Access Block (MPAPELDAB, for short). I like the design of the classes and I really like that you can access databases other than just SQL Server but I’m having some serious problems with registry…
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The finer points of ASP.NET authentication and some other things I learned today.
I’ve been involved with ASP.NET development pretty much since it was in beta and I thought that I really knew what was going on and could cut code pretty well. I must have gotten rusty or something cuz I feel like I’ve learned a TON in the last month. Usually the knowledge is aquired in…
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"ASPNET" vs. "NETWORK SERVICE"
Well, this just wasted the better part of 2 hours. I’m trying to lock down an ASP.NET app that i’m writing to “least privalege”. I’ve got the ASPNET and IUSR_ permissions set to “read”, “execute” and “list”. I kept getting “Server cannot access application directory ‘c:inetpubblahblahblahblah’. The directory does not exist or is not accessible…
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Whuh? No strong name for MSFT Patterns and Practices Enterprise Library?
Usually, when I find something this weird it means that I’m doing something wrong. If anyone has any suggestions on this, let ’em rip. I’ve been working with the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Enterprise Library lately. I’ve been writing new code with it and gradually re-working some old stuff. Well, today I went to put the…
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SecurityException using the MSFT Patterns & Practicecs Data Access Library
I’ve started using the (relatively new) Microsoft Enterprise Library for data access. It’s nice. I like it. I’m using it on my current projects and migrating some of my existing applications over to it. Maybe this is me or maybe this is a deficiency in the documentation…I got it working on my dev workstation pretty…
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NHibernate, Part 3 of xxx: NHibernate Session Management
Continuing my rant about NHibernate being a whole lot of stuff to learn, it’s also somewhat difficult to know how to actually do things the “right way”. A big one for me was trying to figure out the best way to manage NHibernate sessions from an ASP.NET application. If you were doing a Windows Forms application…
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NHibernate, Part 2 of xxx: Is it worth it?
Ok. So. I’ve been playing with the object relational mapping framework called NHibernate for a while now. I’m pretty conflicted about it. It’s definitely cool and it has a lot of great features (most of them I’m probably not even aware of yet). If you’re doing .NET development, it’s pretty much a given that you know ADO.NET…
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Puppy Linux.
FYI, this has nothing to do with dogs. These guys/dudes/people are working on a super small version of Linux. They claim that they’ve got it down to a size that they can easily boot off of a USB flash drive. If I get 2 seconds, I’d really like to try that out. http://www.goosee.com/puppy/ I’ve downloaded…