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Gimp window focus
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Good software is no accident. April 13, 2011. Middot; by Geoff. Middot; in Tips. I’ve been using a combination of The Gimp. To handle my artwork needs of recent. As I’m running them in OS X, they need to use the X11 environment. One of the annoyances I have been having with the Gimp is every window has needed an extra click just to focus it. It turns out the fix is not difficult. I initially thought it might involve turning on the “focus follows mouse” option, but instead it was this:.
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Who gets it perfectly right the first time?
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Good software is no accident. Who gets it perfectly right the first time? Who gets it perfectly right the first time? April 7, 2011. Middot; by Geoff. Middot; in Fundamentals. There was an interesting argument I was a witness to a few days ago. The basic premise was, a developer was complaining about the lack of thought that went into a particular area of a particular piece of software. However, there’s not getting it perfectly right the first time, and there’s. Lets say one day you decided to be a furni...
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Seal of Approval!
http://www.callcontext.com/2011/02/seal-of-approval
Good software is no accident. February 25, 2011. Middot; by Geoff. Middot; in LiveTrax Pro. It appears I have been granted access to that exclusive club, the App Store. Today I received the fantastic news that LiveTrax Pro. Has been approved for sale! Anyway, good news for now. Time to fix up the websites while I’m waiting for my mark of the beast…. On Who gets it perfectly right the first time? On Who gets it perfectly right the first time?
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NHibernate session management in the WCF Web API
http://www.callcontext.com/2011/11/nhibernate-session-management-in-the-wcf-web-api
Good software is no accident. NHibernate session management in the WCF Web API. NHibernate session management in the WCF Web API. November 15, 2011. Middot; by Geoff. Middot; in .NET Development. This post is still wrong (! And no longer relevant with the release of the ASP.NET MVC Web API code. I’ll provide my updated session handler soon. As the WCF Web API project is a bit of a moving target at the moment, it’s been hard to try and find a sensible way to handle NHibernate. This is bad/wrong/silly....
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What’s coming up, or “Keeping myself honest”.
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Good software is no accident. What’s coming up, or “Keeping myself honest”. What’s coming up, or “Keeping myself honest”. February 19, 2011. Middot; by Geoff. Middot; in Blog. In the interests of providing some impetus for myself, I thought I’d detail a few ideas of the posts I want to write. Some of them I’ve been wanting to write for a while, others are new ideas that have come about from my recent journey to the “other side” (read: Apple). Authentication architecture patterns and implementations.
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Subclassed singleton instance
http://www.callcontext.com/2011/10/subclassed-singleton-instance
Good software is no accident. October 27, 2011. Middot; by Geoff. Middot; in .NET Development. I couldn’t really think of a good explanatory title for this post, so I guess I’ll just have to explain. I’m setting up a dependency injection resolver using NInject. I want to create the. Class that every injection implementation derives from. Then, for example, in the. I want to create a. But I only want the subclass to supply configuration. Then in. I can create a. That also descends from. Public void SomeMe...
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LiveTrax Pro is pending review
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Good software is no accident. LiveTrax Pro is pending review. LiveTrax Pro is pending review. February 19, 2011. Middot; by Geoff. Middot; in LiveTrax Pro. After a little bit of mucking about, I’ve finally submitted my first application to the Apple App Store. (Hence the lack of posting for a few days…) I have to say, the process seems a little convoluted, but that’s most likely because of the need to grab a certificate to sign the code. On Who gets it perfectly right the first time?
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Resolving an existing instance with Ninject
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Good software is no accident. Resolving an existing instance with Ninject. Resolving an existing instance with Ninject. October 17, 2011. Middot; by Geoff. Middot; in Tips. Today I was looking for a way to allow a type to resolve to a specific instance that I had already created – something not known at the time the Ninject. Kernel is initialised. There is no method of a Ninject binding that explicitly handles this kind of thing. The trick is to use the. ToMethod(Func IContext, IInstance method).
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How to get your WCF Web API DELETE verb working on IIS6
http://www.callcontext.com/2011/11/how-to-get-your-wcf-web-api-delete-verb-working-on-iis6
Good software is no accident. How to get your WCF Web API DELETE verb working on IIS6. How to get your WCF Web API DELETE verb working on IIS6. November 15, 2011. Middot; by Geoff. Middot; in .NET Development. I’ve just had to deal with a problem on Windows Server 2003 (IIS 6.0) where my web API decided not to respond to the. Verb Apparently, this is by design. Here’s how to set up a wildcard mapping:. Open the IIS Manager snap-in. Right-click the application and select Properties. Text box, enter the pa...
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First blood!
http://www.callcontext.com/2011/03/first-blood
Good software is no accident. March 8, 2011. Middot; by Geoff. Middot; in LiveTrax Pro. Wow I mean, I realise the whole point of putting something in the app store is to get it into other people’s hands, but wow. After finally getting the contracts sorted out (still a GST issue, but that’s a simple thing), LiveTrax Pro. So, to those people; thanks. On Who gets it perfectly right the first time? On Who gets it perfectly right the first time? Larr; Seal of Approval!
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