In a change to normal development activities, this afternoon saw us do a bit of last minute preparation for a triathlon that Esendex is the headline sponsor for. It will, I guess, be business as usual on Sunday too for the Esendex Last Minute Sprint at Southwell with both Adam and Julian leading the way… Continue reading Esendex Last Minute Sprint
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The Night before iPhone
Twas the night before Friday, when all through the house, the PC was crashing, couldn’t talk to its mouse. The taxi was booked for 5:20 with care, with hopes that a 16Gb iPhone soon would be there. His fiancee was nestled all snug in the bed, while visions of multitouch danced in his head. And… Continue reading The Night before iPhone
The Next Release
Now that the development team at Esendex Towers is growing, so is the pace. Nicholas has just posted the next set of tasks on the board for our next release in a few weeks. As you can probably see, there’s not much cork left in view! Saying that, I’ve just seen the inch-thick pile of… Continue reading The Next Release
Log4View
I just wanted to personally recommend a log view utility I’ve had the luck of finding recently, actually thanks to Ian again. Around October time, Ian contacted the logging.apache.org group asking : “Does anyone know of an application that is capable of loading a log file that has been written to using the RollingFileAppender?” He… Continue reading Log4View
Having a Ballmer
“I would love to see all open source innovation happen on top of Windows” Ballmer: All open source dev should happen on Windows | The Register Obviously all that flapping up and down screaming “Developers, developers, developers, developers” (see after the break) has starved Steve Ballmer of critical oxygen supply to his brain of late.… Continue reading Having a Ballmer
Test Driven Documentation
Esendex fully embraces the idea of test-driven development (TDD), something I was introduced to during my time at Fujitsu-Siemens Computers. Microsoft have just released a new MSDN site called the Tester Center Home. Whilst I’m sure its got some useful information on it, the matter-of-fact MSDN style doesn’t invite me to delve into it to… Continue reading Test Driven Documentation
Episerver and Page Languages
We’ve been doing some work recently using EpiServer, extending it to fit our needs, to support our new website look which is one of many new features coming soon. Having website content in more than one language reflects the international coverage that Esendex has. We ran into a bug today which initially wasn’t easy to… Continue reading Episerver and Page Languages
Stored procedure error handling in SQL Server 2000
Today, we’re continuing work on our multipart message aggregation upgrade for a future Esendex release. One part of the investigations this morning has been looking into how we manage the database access as we add parts of an incoming message to it for later processing. As we have multiple servers processing inbound messages, there was… Continue reading Stored procedure error handling in SQL Server 2000
Credit card regular expressions
Following on from my previous post about credit card authentication with regular expressions, I thought I’d share my other discovery. The BIN Ranges list I found showed a list of Visa cards which were designated ‘ATMOnly. Figuring these would be a good thing to filter out during validation. There’s plenty of regular expression help about… Continue reading Credit card regular expressions
Maestro, music please
We’ve been working on a change request to add Maestro to the credit cards that we accept for ecommerce payments. Switch started in 1988 but has now merged with the Maestro network owned by MasterCard in the UK. Until recently, if you took Switch payments then UK customers who had new Maestro cards would still… Continue reading Maestro, music please