Tips

How to Find Stuff

Submitted by Bevan on Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 4:51pm

At this weeks Wellington .NET user group, James asked me how I find stuff - when I need to find out how to get something done, how do I find the information I need. Here's what I told him.

Exception Inspection

Submitted by Bevan on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 - 1:05pm
Watch $exception
Watch $exception

Here's a useful tip that I didn't know - you can use the pseudo-variable $exception in the Watch window to see the exception that's just been caught.

PhpMyAdmin and the White Screen of Death

Submitted by Bevan on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 - 3:33pm

After a recent hardware failure (*) I've been setting up a new LAMP sandbox, this time using Ubuntu 9.04 running in a virtualised environment.

Everything was going fine, but after importing a database backup into MySQL, PhpMyAdmin started misbehaving, giving a White Screen of Death after login. View source revealed an empty file.

DataBinding Goodness

Submitted by Bevan on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 - 3:24pm

There's a lot of "goodness" buried in WinForms databinding that doesn't get to see the light of day. Here's one example I discovered just today ...

How not to set up Tests

Submitted by Bevan on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 - 9:15am

Some unit tests on a project were newly failing - I'd done the checkin immediately before the first failure, so it fell to me to sort out the problem.

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