It seems absurd, but I made a simple test to verify if my smtp server is working, I sent to one of my address one mail with subject “test” and body “test”. Then after 1 minutes the mail still did not arrived, so I deduced that my smtp server is not working properly….then…I goes into [...]
Quite often, customers ask us to generate reports in word format, the main advantage of this approach is that people feels comfortable working with word, and they love the possibility to modify the report once generated. In the past years I used many techniques to reach this goal, but in the end, a lot of [...]
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I have a production server with an asp.net application, it run for months without errors. 10 days ago the elmah page begins to shows an error that occurred in a lot of pages. The application uses a standard ado.net Data access Layer, but a module uses nhibernate, and it turns out that all the errors [...]
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I decided to remove comment moderation for the blog. I used it mainly to be sure that no spam pass the filter, but after some months of testing I verify that Akismet really does a good work, intercepting all the spam comments. Moreover I setup the WP-reCAPTCHA plugin to add a CAPTCHA in the end [...]
This morning I read this post linked from Ayende’s post. I really does not agree with the author. Open source is a movement where people are happy to use their time to develop solution for everyone, quite often for free, sometimes with more restrictive license (free only for non commercial product) but really noone has [...]
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