SetProperty and GetProperty with C# Reflection
I’ll make a post soon, comparing Ruby on Rails to C# with ASP.NET MVC, but this here is atomic and might be of help for one or two readers. If you want to set and get properties in C# in a type-agnostic way, these are the functions you want to put into a library class [...]
Creating my own little Portal Site
As you may or may not have noticed, I now have a second blog: haslos Politblog. I decided I’d want to blog about Swiss politics from time to time as well, and with this blog being English only and having a global rather than Swiss target audience, these subjects didn’t really fit in here. So [...]
Getting MySQL 5.0 to work in Ruby 1.9.1 on Windows 7
So, I got MySQL to work for my Ruby on Rails development environment. Let’s be clear about what I actually wanted: Ruby 1.9.1 Rails 2.3.2 Any version of MySQL whatsoever Any way whatsoever to make my up-to-date Ruby on Rails talk to that MySQL I don’t care what version of MySQL. I don’t care if [...]
Actually Installing Ruby on Rails, on Windows 7
OK, so I found out what it is that I have to install for my wonderful Ruby on Rails environment. It’s time to start installing. Keep in mind that much of what I’m doing here is an experiment (and thanks Luis for being so patient with me). I don’t claim to know what works and [...]
Assessing Installing Ruby on Rails, on Windows 7
So I wanted to get up and running with a development system for Ruby on Rails, on my shiny freshly installed Windows 7 machine (so, no development stuff on it as of yet whatsoever). However, the recent Ruby update to 1.9.1 brought such big changes that apparently, many libraries don’t work with it anymore – [...]
Stack Overflow: Solutions for Coders
If you’re a programmer, you know the problem of solution googlability. It’s particularly prominent in mainstream languages (and one of the things I decried in my What’s Wrong with VBA series, as VBA is particularly bad in that respect); you have a problem, you google for it, unless you’re coding in a good awesome well-designed [...]
What’s Wrong With VBA? (3/3)
part 1 – part 2 – part 3 This is the third part of a three-part series, have a look at part 1 and part 2 first. So let’s go on ahead and jump into the final bits of my troubles with MS Access and VBA as environment for medium and larger IT projects – [...]
What’s Wrong With VBA? (2/3)
part 1 – part 2 – part 3 This is the second part of a three-part series, have a look at part 1 first if you haven’t read it yet. Let’s just jump right in and continue the list of problems I have with VBA as a programming language for medium and larger MS Access [...]
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