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Apple download failures are ruining my life

By Winston ⋅ March 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

For the past few weeks I’ve been trying to update my iPhone to the new 2.2.1 firmware, but the download always failed.  Same with downloading a new version iTunes.  Tried and tried and tried.
Then today I got fed up, tracked down the url for manually downloading it (this forum thread is a good source).  But [...]

Weirdest Visual Studio bug ever

By Winston ⋅ November 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Bug
My loathing for Visual Studio continues.
Suddenly, every time I ever tried to search for anything, the search wouldn’t even start.  It would just say:
No Files Were Found To Look In.
Find Was Stopped In Progress
Gross.  Nothing fixed it.  Restarted.  Nothing.  
The Real Problem is that Visual Studio is Giving Me CTS
The search feature was [...]

URL Rewriting and ASP.NET Browsers - is a beating

By Winston ⋅ October 16, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

We’re lucky we have an error handler in our web app that emails us about every single unhandled error, or we wouldn’t know about this one at all.
The dreaded “cannot use leading .. to exit …” error.  If you do URL rewriting with ASP.NET, you probably see this a lot.  If you don’t, it’s probably [...]

C# Namespace Paths are Annoying

By Winston ⋅ October 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m really annoyed by the way C# handles partial namespace references.  Mainly because I never want to do it.  I always specify the full namespace (albeit in a using clause at the top).  Sometimes it makes sense to alias a namespace like we do with NHMA = NHibernate.Mapping.Attributes.
I just never have a need to reference [...]

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