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Investigating How MongoDB’s “Majority” Write Concern Works

Posted on 17th December, 2012 by Richard
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Introduction I’ve recently been studying an online MongoDB course from 10gen, the developers of MongoDB. MongoDB is a NoSQL database which offers a ton of features, including replica sets with automatic failover. This isn’t a beginner’s HOWTO on MongoDB; for … Continue reading →

Posted in MongoDB | Tagged mongodb, NoSQL, Replica Sets | 2 Replies

Why Diaspora is so Important to Social Networking

Posted on 10th September, 2012 by Richard
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I’m a huge fan of social networking, and post regularly on Facebook, and on Twitter under the handle @yeurch. I think Facebook is a great tool for keeping up to date with people I know (or knew) in real life, … Continue reading →

Posted in General Computing | Tagged Diaspora, Facebook, Open Source, social networking | Leave a reply

Using URL Rewrite in IIS7 to have all Requests Handled by a Script

Posted on 5th September, 2012 by Richard
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In my post last year about setting up Mercurial on IIS, I left it as an exercise for the reader to allow it so that index.py could be left out of the URLs. As an example, we want to be … Continue reading →

Posted in General Computing | Tagged iis, iis 7, mercurial, URL Rewrite | Leave a reply

Just Installing VS2012 Can Break VS2010 Websites

Posted on 3rd September, 2012 by Richard
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Last week, I installed Visual Studio 2012, to play around with new features. We’re probably not ready to move our production code to VS2012 yet, but I just wanted to see what’s new. I should probably have installed it in … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.NET | Tagged ASP.NET 4.0, Programming, Visual Studio, VS2012 | 4 Replies

Estimating Effort

Posted on 20th April, 2012 by Richard
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A few years ago, a former manager of mine taught me a valuable lesson about estimating the time it will take to complete a task in order to best meet expectations. Having done a significant amount of estimation recently, it … Continue reading →

Posted in General Computing | Tagged estimation, statistics | Leave a reply

Accessing ASP.NET Session from ServiceStack

Posted on 29th February, 2012 by Richard
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This content is based heavily upon an answer I posted on StackOverflow. Oh, ok then, it’s almost an exact copy. Recently, I’ve ripped WCF out of the heart of a project at work, and replaced it with ServiceStack. There were … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.NET | Tagged ServiceStack, WCF, web services | 2 Replies

O2 Disclose Mobile Numbers to Websites

Posted on 25th January, 2012 by Richard
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Yesterday lunchtime, Lewis Peckover (@lewispeckover) noticed that mobile browsers on O2’s UK network were sending the phone’s number to websites as an HTTP header, resulting in this information being available to the websites browsed.  This information is not present when … Continue reading →

Posted in Non-IT | Tagged Data Protection, Law | Leave a reply

I’m British – SOPA Doesn’t Affect Me, Right?

Posted on 18th January, 2012 by Richard
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Wrong! The wording of the proposed SOPA legislation means that a huge number of websites can be classed as “facilitating the commission of copyright infringement”.  For example: A blog which allows users to post comments An e-commerce site which allows … Continue reading →

Posted in General Computing | Tagged Copyright, Law, SOPA | Leave a reply

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

Posted on 6th October, 2011 by Richard
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Yesterday, the world lost a great visionary in Steve Jobs, who is synonymous with the Apple brand he co-founded. While reading reports of his death, I came across this great quote of his which I thought I’d share: No one … Continue reading →

Posted in General Computing | Tagged Apple | Leave a reply

Giving Something Back – Contributing to Open Source

Posted on 26th September, 2011 by Richard
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For years and years, I’ve used open source applications and libraries. The more I used, the more I felt guilty for taking advantage of other people’s hard work. I’m not sure I’m alone in feeling that, but for years I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in General Computing | Tagged CodePlex, NuGet, Open Source | Leave a reply

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