Members Only Musings MSBuild, OutDir, Cargo Cults, and Why Nothing Is Ever Unchangeable MSBuild started it. Where it ended was with an idea that I am constantly being reminded of: nothing is ever unchangeable.
Members Only Visual Studio Fixing Intellisense and Go To Definition in Visual Studio 2019 I had a set of very strange problems after upgrading to Visual Studio 2019 early this week, and they were significantly hampering my ability to get work done. Go To
Members Only Screwups Don't Stop Moving, Especially When You Screw Up Just keep moving. Even, especially, when you screw up. Technology won't wait.
Members Only Bug Hunt Solving the Stupid Bug A few weeks back I wrote about a very unusual bug that returned 500 errors for routes that should have been valid. Recently my team and I, to our great
Members Only Bug Hunt A Stupid Bug and a Plea for Help UPDATE (17 May 2017): We've fixed the stupid bug described in this post! Check it out! Bug hunts can take on many forms. Some are simple cleanup jobs, some take
Members Only Stories How Do You Fix An Impossible Bug? Within the span of an hour, it had all gone to hell. The first deployment went rather smoothly. It was a fix to an existing web service, and went out
Members Only Bug Hunt Ancient ORACLE, Modern IIS, and a Failure to RTFM My coworkers Rajit and Dave and I have been spending an inordinate amount of time over the last few days looking for a really annoying error in one of our
Members Only Musings The Bug Is In Your Code Have you ever been hunting a bug and been absolutely sure that it was in someone else's code, only to find out that, nope, it was in yours all along?
Members Only Bug Hunt The Bug Hunt From Hell (Or, Why You Shouldn't Forget About Caching) We have an in-house media server that stores internal images, videos, etc. This project has many components, but the major ones are: A database, where information about the media items
Members Only Musings The Two-Step "Do I Need To Fix This Right Now?" Questionnaire Almost every day one of my teammates will come to me with a "bug" or problem they discovered and want to know if we should fix it as part of the next deployment, or wait for the QA department (whom we jokingly
Members Only Bug Hunt Fighting Chameleons: Why Reuse Isn't Always A Good Idea When can code that looks the same not be the same? When it's actually a Code Chameleon in disguise! Our failure to dig a little deeper and actually understand the
Members Only Bug Hunt The Hunting of the Glitch I was able to find the nest, to my knowledge the first hunter to do so, before the Glitch nearly ended me. This bug is the most elusive I've ever
Members Only ASP.NET MVC ModelState values override Model values in HtmlHelpers We ran into an interesting problem in Chrome using MVC, dates, and EditorFor. When we tried to submit a search, the dates kept getting the wrong format applied to them
