A Blog About Random Computer Subjects
Summary The purpose of this blog post is to describe how legacy code gets perpetuated years beyond its useful life and how to put a stop to it. I will also make my case for why this process needs to be stopped. I will attempt to target this article to managers as well as the … Read moreLegacy Code Writers
Summary I’ve blogged about how to write a windows service before (click here). In my previous blog post I did not deep-dive into how to handle a cancel request issued by someone who is clicking on the stop button. In this article, I’m going to expand on the previous article and show how to setup … Read moreWriting a Windows Service with a Cancellation Feature
Summary In this post I’m going to demonstrate how to generate a safe token for a custom session module. The Session Token When a user logs into a website, there needs to be a way to keep track of who the person is after the authentication occurs. One method is to give the user a … Read moreGenerating a Custom Session Token
Summary If you have ever worked with sessions in a web application using multiple languages you’ll know that you need to do some special configuration to get the session data to be shared across all languages. Another issue involves the problem of cycling or resetting an IIS server while using the default session settings. Basically, … Read moreWeb Sessions Stored in SQL
Summary In this blog post I’m going to expand on my last post about COM objects and design a COM “wrapper” for a dictionary. This will demonstrate the use of properties, passing parameters and the indexer. The MyDictionary Class The code that I’m going to use in my COM module will be something like this: … Read moreCreating a COM object for Classic ASP (Part 2)