Archive for category Software Development

Web development environment – “On The Go”

Posted by RyanG in Software Development, drupal, php on April 7, 2009

Over the past few weeks I’ve been spending most of my spare time developing a couple of web sites.  These sites are based on the Drupal CMS written in PHP.  And I’ve taken a bit of a crash course in Drupal module design. When I set out developing these, I faced a challenge that I’d been aware [...]

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Drupal Flickr Module. Now with URLs!

Posted by RyanG in drupal, php on March 27, 2009

Okay, so I’ve been a bit preoccupied with a couple projects which have slowed my efforts at blogging etc. In both cases, I’ve been working on websites that leverage the PHP based Drupal CMS.  One of those projects is over at http://www.chasejarvisshoeproject.com.  That site is basically a small community forum for some folks that are [...]

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Really Detecting Design Mode

Posted by RyanG in C# coding on August 22, 2008

I recently had to deal with the problem of ADO.NET data access occurring on user controls, and forms in the Visual Studio design view. Now the data access depended upon a connection string in the App.config file and consequently, when run from Visual Studio it could not connect to the database since the connection string [...]

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Microsoft’s Tlbimp creates leaky BSTR signatures

Posted by RyanG in C# coding on March 13, 2008

This one confounded me when I first discovered it, and I’ve recently been reminded about it. For the sake of remembering the details, and hopefully helping someone else out I’m going to document it here. The problem is this. When you have a COM library that you need to use from a C# app, you [...]

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