In 1950 in New York, looking for a job consisted of catching a subway at 6:30 to pick up a copy of the New York Times, searching the classifieds, and then pursuing the most promising opportunities.
After doing this for forty weeks straight, Bill still didn't have a job …
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It seems like every time I want to call a RESTful service from my .NET app I have to re-lookup the documentation for either Hammock or RestSharp. Mainly for my own future reference, here's the code using Hammock to get a change list from bitbucket.org's REST API, then using …
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I recently used a PowerShell script like the following to troubleshoot the details of a third-party web service our code was using. I thought the script was something worth noting here for future reference.
$url = "https://path/to/Service.asmx" $parameters = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>' + "`n" + '<soap12:Envelope …read more
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There were two points in the second chapter of The Speed of Trust that had an impact on me.
I learned in this chapter that the Stephen Covey who wrote this book is the son of the Stephen Covey who wrote the popular Seven Habits book. In …
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Yesterday's post about The Speed of Trust hit me in a new way this morning when I was filling up with gas. The sign on the pump said, "Please Prepay." Wow, does that slow things down, doesn't it? Instead of simply filling up and walking in to pay, I have …
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I'm slowly picking my way through Stephen Covey's book, The Speed of Trust. In chapter one Stephen makes a compelling argument that trust makes a very real difference in the amount of time and money required to get work done.
Consider the example of Warren Buffet when acquiring …
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Really tired of having to google this and piece it together every time I want it, so I'm posting it here.
alter database DbName
set single_user
with rollback immediate
go
restore database DbName
from disk = 'path/to/backup.bak'
with file = 1, replace
Notables:
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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 nuget packages for libraries to help with this. I chose …
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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;
$tran …
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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 $queueName; $utf8 …read more
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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 create a new variable (conventionally named "that") referenced by the …
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