Adam Auckland

30th Apr, 2009

Access is denied when loading an assembly

Just solved this issue in .Net, when trying to load an external assembly, an unhelpful error of FileLoadException(Access is denied).
.Net snippet
22nd Apr, 2009

Python, libxslt and custom resolvers

I recently had a requirement to read in an XSLT file and transform it using Python.
libxml2 python xml
30th Jan, 2009

Add new user to Subversion

How to add a new user to Subversion using DAV.
server subversion
28th Jan, 2009

Your framework probably sucks

If you're writing a framework, I recommend you stop. Right now. Go do some sports, read a book, enjoy the world. Come back and then use an existing one, or none at all, just use a programming language.
framework python rant
28th Oct, 2008

Easy to read log files

When dealing with a large codebase, or any codebase really, debug log files can get pretty detailed. I made the mistake of not separating my log entries into degrees of importance with a switch in some settings file, so I basically have logging enabled or disabled. When logging is disabled pages render between 8 and 35 ms, when enabled pages can take up to 500 ms.
debugging python server
15th Sep, 2008

Quick and easy XML creation

Generating XML is easy to get wrong. Unescaped entities, mismatched tags, Unicode characters create a minefield for a developer. XHTML is a subset of XML so the same rules apply, however I've noticed not many "web frameworks" generate guaranteed pure XHTML.
python xml
8th Aug, 2008

Remove Subversion Directories

To strip out all Subversion tracking directories (those annoying .svn hidden ones) navigate to the directory in a terminal then type the following:
deploy server snippet
22nd Jul, 2008

Use the correct XHTML doctype for your templates.

If you're working with XSL as a templating system, you'll want it to include the correct DTD.
xhtml xml
16th Jun, 2008

Your database will never be 3rd normal form.

Databases have incredibly complicated data structures. When working with a large database, the temptation is to over-engineer the layout. A completely normalised database is one particularly useful in production.
31st May, 2008

Serialise Python objects to XML

I'm lazy. I like a complete separation of back-end code and front end styling - logic in the back end, styling for front end. There are many templating solutions floating around, but most put code in with markup. Fortunately, we have a templating solution which most web developers already know... XSL.
python xml

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