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Parsing command-line arguments can be deceptively tricky. Often it starts as something very simple to do manually, but as more arguments and formats and flexibility are desired, the effort required to do it well can explode. So there are several … Continue reading
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Write MSMQ Messages from PowerShell
This PowerShell script sends a message to an MSMQ. I did it this particular way because NServiceBus can consume messages sent like this. [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“System.Messaging”); $queueName = ‘.\Private$\your.queue.name’; $queue = new-object System.Messaging.MessageQueue $queueName; $utf8 = new-object System.Text.UTF8Encoding; $tran = new-object System.Messaging.MessageQueueTransaction; … Continue reading
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Read MSMQ Messages from PowerShell
This script dumps the contents of an MSMQ to the console. This one dumps the Journal contents of a private queue; of course you’ll have to adjust that line for your queue. [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“System.Messaging”) $queueName = ‘.\Private$\your.queue.name\Journal$’; $queue = new-object System.Messaging.MessageQueue … Continue reading
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JavaScript: this and that.
This is a brief description of a technique recommend by Douglas Crockford, probably in Act III of his JavaScript video series. Code that looks right, but is wrong: There are a few workarounds; the one Douglas Crockford recommends is to … Continue reading
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Don’t use BR for vertical spacing
Use CSS instead. When <br> is used for vertical spacing it drives me crazy. Among my coworkers it is widely known that I don’t approve of <br> abuse. One recently wrote in a source control commit comment, “Removed some nasty … Continue reading
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More Semantics
Focusing on semantics instead of the technical has application beyond CSS. Amazingly, a few hours after posting my last bit on Semantic HTML, a coworker noted the following in a code review: Small lie: .indent16px{ margin-left: 15px; } I don’t … Continue reading
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Semantic HTML
There’s a lot of literature about “semantic HTML” on the web (here’s one person who writes about it a lot). The best short advice I know of to get jump-started on this topic is from a page on W3C. I’ve … Continue reading
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Paradigm Shift: from Request/Response to Publish/Subscribe
Since attending Udi’s ADSD class about a year and a half ago, the publish/subscribe pattern in general has been fascinating for me to consider at many levels. In some ways it’s a fundamental shift in the way we program. When … Continue reading
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How to Teach Data Types
I received this email from Terry Palmer, an instructor of CIS at Mayville State University. As a software development professional, the preparation of new graduates in this field for real world work provided by mainstream universities has often been very … Continue reading
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CodeRush FTW: Reorder Attributes
Check out this code block within an ASP.NET forms application: It’s quite wide, and the repetitive attributes that I mostly don’t care about are left-most. It’d be nice to move the “runat” and “EmbedInDiv” attributes to the end of these … Continue reading
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