This is one of the tools that once you get a good grab of it, you can’t let go… Fiddler link here For me it’s invaluable the information it gives me to debug my custom soap headers or my JSON streams. One trick though, if you are hosting your services on a webserver on your [...]
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Client proxy stub generation nightmare. SVCUtil generates colliding types. Beware of the porttype name and your data types…
No comments · Posted by LizetP in svcutil, WCF, web services
svcutil, WCF, client proxy generation
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Whatever was free once, is no longer free, after all, Google has to get money out of something else, other than ads…I had used Blogger for a while, probably since their beginning when it was acquired by Google.I never liked to host my blog on their servers though, and I still won’t. Hosting on my [...]
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To nvarchar or to varchar in SQL Server to accept French text
2 Comments · Posted by LizetP in Globalization, localization
I found one single character from the French language that its binary representation is not the same for Unicode and Windows-1252. The oe ligature. Let me rant about it… create table test_table(name1 varchar (1) ,name2 nvarchar (1) ) insert test_tablevalues (‘œ’, ‘œ’) select * from test_table select ASCII(name1), ASCII(name2), Unicode(name1), unicode(name2) from test_table select COL_LENGTH(‘test_table’,’name1′) [...]
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Java Initialization blocks…why should we ever use them?
1 Comment · Posted by LizetP in Uncategorized
Coming from a C# world I’m trying to get a grasp on the Java language, mostly for comparison purposes and to see if really the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. What I like so far of the Java 1.6 that I see C# might benefit from:1. The main one is [...]
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We drove to St Agustin while visiting Florida these holidays and to my surprise they had a museum with Martí and the Cuban flag … mi bandera.
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HTTP 1.1 caching directives for dummies and caching problems for old versions of Internet Explorer.
1 Comment · Posted by LizetP in caching, HTTP, IE6 and IE5
The reason why I published this link is because a coworker had a problem with viewing a PDF on IE6 when the cache was set to no-store over https. The problem does not happen with Internet Explorer 7 or above or with FireFox, but the old IEs fail to retrieve the files when the cache [...]
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The importance of schemas, where’s that XSD file?
3 Comments · Posted by LizetP in data exchange, schema files, XML
I’m coming across more and more projects that make heavy use of xml for data integration or data exchange that lack of schema files. First case:My team was POC-ing the integration with a third party web service. I won’t mention names but this company is one of the main sources of collected data for rating. [...]
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Re Microsoft’s Entity Framework: persistence ignorance is a bliss I won’t give up on
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I came across this article Why use the Entity Framework? Yeah, why exactly? refuting a marketing like article by one of the EF team members. After using NHibernate for a while and looking into JPA and old JDO on the Java world, I don’t think I’ll get my hands on the EF any time soon, [...]
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