September 2008 Entries
There have been numerous postings announcing that Microsoft is going to start shipping jQuery alongside Visual Studio. If you haven't read about this already, see Scott Guthrie's post.
This is wonderful news for the developer community for many reasons.
First, the acceptance of jQuery by Microsoft should be contagious. A lot of large enterprise organizations get their software from Microsoft, and their software tools from Microsoft. The rule in those circles seems to be "No one ever got fired for using Microsoft", and so, Microsoft tools tend to dominate the short list of what can be used in an enterprise environment. With...
RDU CodeCamp is coming!
Nov 15, 2008 at ECPI in Raleigh we will be having the RDU CodeCamp. Registration will be coming soon.
Currently, we are actively seeking speakers! If you are interested in speaking at RDU CodeCamp please drop us a line at http://www.codecamp.org/Speakers.aspx - We would love to hear from you.
Yesterday I had a live production app start suddenly raising errors after being in fine shape for over a year. In digging into the code to see the guts of the error, I found this:
if (Session["PhaseTypeID"].ToString() == ((int)Enums.PhaseType.Study).ToString())
The session variable isn't being tested for null in this case, it is being used via the toString() call, so when it is null, as in this case, it throws an "Object reference not set exception".
When confronted by code this wrong, there is an overpowering urge to fix it. In my case, I was ready to pull the session vars into the base...