I ran into an issue with log4net today where it just would NOT log to the database. I knew the database connection settings were fine, and the config file was fine, but some minor changes I had made to field sizes resulted in the whole thing not logging. [Read More]

I lost a few chunks of hair this morning. I needed to set up some kind of code coverage so I could prove to a client that our unit tests were actually doing what we said they were doing. I chose NCover as I had used it a few years... [Read More]

I’ve got a pile of old MPEGs on my PC from an old Sony camcorder of mine, that I wanted to play on my XBox 360. My XBox isn’t connected to my home network, and I wanted to be able to convert the mpegs into something the XBox could read... [Read More]

It’s been a while since I used NServiceBus and I got this annoyingly cryptic error message this morning: [Read More]

Rick Strahl posted this excellent article on pre-authenticating HTTP requests - this is something that’s caught me in the past but he explains the whole concept so well here I thought this was worth noting for my own future reference.