PrimeDigit - A Design Blog by Will Shaver

Here’s a quick and egosurfing comparison of google and bing. Doing a non-quoted search for: will shaver

Google:

• Me
• Me
• Me
• Me, and others
• Not Me
• Me
• Me
• Not Me
• Not Me

Bing:

• Not Me
• Not Me
• Not Me
• Not Me
• Not Me
• Not Me
• Not Me
• Not Me
• Not Me
• Not Me

Hey, it isn’t *my* fault that “Will” is a common english word.

Boring conversation anyway….

If you’re trying to debug by building the MVC source and getting something like this error:

The type 'System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage' is ambiguous: it could come from assembly 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Web.Mvc\1.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.Web.Mvc.dll' or from assembly 'C:\Projects\mvccontrib\trunk\src\Samples\MvcContrib.Samples.UI\bin\System.Web.Mvc.DLL'. Please specify the assembly explicitly in the type name.

Then Steve will help you solve the ambiguous reference problem.

Was fighting an annoying aspx / R# error for a couple of hours this morning. I’ve reported this as a bug to R#:
http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/RSRP-96241

The basic problem: R# doesn’t highlight correctly if your Inherits directive is not fully qualified. Even if it is in an @Import directive or in your Web.config. The solution is to always fully qualify your Inherits page directive. Or for R# to recommend importing it or fully qualifying it or actually reading the web.config correctly. Go vote my issue up. :)

I’ll be spending the next two days at a Agile Open Northwest. If you’re at the conference, come find me. :)

Otherwise I’ll be blogging about anything I find especially insightful.

I’ve spent most of the past couple of days mapping a legacy database with NHibernate. Here’s how the design of this database probably went down:

Pointy Haired Boss: We’ve decided to cut costs by paying you per primary key instead of per hour.
DBA: Works for me.

Seriously. We have tables here with two varchars, one decimal, and one int ALL mapped to a primary key. So glad that I have NH to help me out here.

Simple enough, it looks like some standards nazi went through and renamed the Login to Logon in several places for RC1. Unfortunately it did not get renamed in the Web.config for the redirect on failed login url.

    <authentication mode="Forms">

      <forms loginUrl="~/Account/Login"/>

    </authentication>

Where it needs to be:

    <authentication mode="Forms">

      <forms loginUrl="~/Account/LogOn"/>

    </authentication>

But when I went to the asp.net forums to report this bug, I did the conscientious thing and tried to determine if it had been reported already. Searching for “RC1 logon login” yielded too many results. So I’ll wade through the tree view to only check the asp.net mvc forum. (2004 called, wants it back.) I then realized it was sorting by some kind of relavance instead of date. Where’s the date sort? Lets try going back to the “more search options” Ohh, thanks for clearing my existing search. Perhaps if I hit “back” instead? Still no luck. Ohh wait, there’s a big notice at the top of the search page:

Search will be undergoing maintenance to improve results on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 from 7pm - 10pm Eastern Time, United States.

Ohh. So this is the IMPROVED version? Sigh. I’ll post it here instead.

Sometimes using a stock photo can help sell your product. Perhaps this one is trying to convince the buyer what not to do. Or something.