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20061129

Scratching Our Head So Much, We’re Going Bald
Not that we’ve studied it carefully or anything, but we really find ourselves not understanding the .NET GAC. On our development box, we naturally have no trouble building and running our various web applications. Like every good developer, we muck about with our dev box so much we could never untangle the strands and replicate the environment faithfully. However, we’re still not sure why we had to register the MySQL Connector dll on our integration server (and here we use the word “server” loosely). We included the appropriate dll file in what seemed to be all the appropriate places, but kept getting the dread error about how the “manifest definition . . . does not match”. We took a look at the GAC on the integration server using gacutil, saw that the MySQL Connector was not listed, and figured we’d just stick it in the GAC. That did the trick, but we’re still not sure why it was not working before.

20061128

Ahhhh, That Clean Fresh Web 2.0 Smell
Looks like since we last posted Blogger has made the push to its new beta version (but I thought it was long since out of beta?) stronger. We like to go along with the crowd whenever possible, as long as it’s not too difficult, so we made the switch. Look, ma, labels! Mmmmm . . . metadata. We’ll get right on going back over the last several years of posts and tagging them. Starting . . . now. Really, for real, starting . . . now. Maybe later.

Labels: blogger, permanent beta, site news, web 2.0

A Power Together Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
There is a GRB marketing site that promises to send you a free fully-licensed copy of Windows Vista Business if you register for and attend 3 webcasts, as well as give GRB a name, address, and phone number. Trouble is, when we registered, we got a horrible yet typical error message: “Sorry, a System Error Occurred.” We don't particularly care about your apologies, GRB, we want our free OS! (Especially after you duped us into giving you our address, albeit a work addy.)

Labels: bait-and-switch, cheating, free stuff, GRB, microsoft, offers