Over the past few days, I've been working to change our build process and make it a little more flexible for our needs. As part of it, I was asked to look into how we encrypt our data, and see if we could come up with a better way to do it. Right now, we… more »

In my last post, I talked about dynamically loading and unloading DLLs. It works well, but I quickly ran into an issue: configuration data. The main application, which is what houses the DLL that's loaded dynamically, has a lot of configuration data, and… more »

As part of a new application I'm building, we wanted it to work together with an existing application already in place - in fact, we wanted it to share the bulk of the implementation for saving certain types of data. The main requirement we had was that… more »

At TrackAbout, where I've been working for a few months now, our database has a lot of user defined functions in it. This past week, one of my tasks involved using one of these functions in conjunction with an NHibernate object. There's a couple of wa… more »

This past week, I had a bug assigned to me about a user canceling a long running process in their browser, but it kept running on the server. It was a process to generate PDF files, and the component we use is kind of memory intensive. As a result, havin… more »

While I no longer work at RCM Technologies, I still watch the discussion forums for the Kinetic Framework. Recently, a question popped up, and since it’s gone unanswered for a few days, I figured I’d chime in. Essentially, the person is wonde… more »

As a web developer, if you have a static file, and it gets updated, how do you ensure that it gets downloaded by your users, instead of using the previously cached version? That's the problem I was faced with the other day. I had a JavaScript file tha… more »

As I've started to look into NHibernate and how to manage the NHibernate session, I quickly came across the "session per request" model as the recommended (or at least most popular) approach. I initially started out with a context-based storage and event… more »

In the past few weeks, I've basically come full circle on the usage of dependency injection frameworks and Inversion of Control containers. Back in March, I was questioning whether one was necessary, since I hadn't seen a need to do anything so complex t… more »

The other night, I had an eye opening moment when I finally understood how I could use query objects to allow me to use a generic repository, yet still be able to have re-usable queries. But one thing I didn't quite get was how this related to the Specif… more »