Entries for the ‘Tech stuff’ Category

.NET Custom validators – perfect tool (almost)

I don’t know about you, but working with .NET validators is always a fiddly job. Sure, they enable you to do quick validations, but I am yet to find an app where each field only needs one validator. And this is where things usually get interesting.

DB2 Data Provider for .NET – followup

A follow-up on article about DB2 Data Provider for .NET

DB2 Data Provider for .NET

As you might have read, I am lately doing a lot of stuff in .NET with DB2 as a database server. In the past, the only way to connect to a DB2 database from .NET environment was via ODBC. Nowadays, IBM provides us with DB2 data provider for .NET. On top of that, launch of […]

DB2 transactions in .NET environment

Recently, I have been working on a .NET application that uses DB2 as a database engine. On top of that, I needed transactions as I didn’t want for SQL statements to commit if one of them failed. Needless to say, DB2 uses it’s own principle to handling transactions.

Upgrading Sametime to 8.5.1

I have upgraded company’s Sametime server recently. Yes, that is correct. Sametime server. Singular. We are not that big of a company per IBM measures and even if we were, we are only using IM function of it anyway, so there is no point of using more than one server. But that is not important.

Demo

A few days hence, I had an interesting debate with one of my best friends about data used in a demo. He is convinced that real user data (e.g. Name, Surname, email etc.) should be used even in a demo. I, on the other hand, am impervious to weather you use fake, real-enough or real […]

Android development issue no. 1

Due to personal interest, I installed Android SDK and emulator on my machine. Now, since I am a programmer, I am most interested in actually developing applications for Android. Hence, I installed Eclipse ADT plug-in.

Domino URL cheat sheet

Lately I tried to integrate some C# application with Lotus Notes application data. Hence, I needed to display view contents in some way. Naturally I googled for solution on how to display view contents as JSON and came across Domino URL Cheat sheet. Even though I lately decided to go with XML display (mostly because […]

Mercurial & Visual Studio Web Sites

Before I begin, let me explain that I am a big Mercurial and Visual studio fan. Sure, there could be some improvements made in both, but all in all they are a decent product, which I gladly use on daily basis. Recently, however, I stumbled upon a nasty problem. I had to make some modifications […]

Microsoft WebMatrix

Last week I got notification of new Microsoft product release. Intrigued by some screenshots I decided to download and install Webmatrix. For those that cba to go to official site, Webmatrix is a combo of upgraded Visual studio WebDeveloper, IIS 7.5 express and MSDE. What is a big plus is that it knows kung-fu… Not […]