Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• PHP and OpenXML - New API project

  19 Nov, 2007

  It's been a while since I posted something related to PHP and OpenXML, but I fixed that glitch in this blog post. Browsing CodePlex, I found a new PHP OpenXML project named OpenXML API. From what I can see, this project is just in the "Hello world" stage of creating Word documents in PHP, but not so long ago my PHPExcel project was in that stage too...

• Advanced ASP.NET caching events

  5 Nov, 2007

  Currently, I'm giving an ASP.NET classroom training at our company, which actually is quite good for me: I needed to refresh all ASP.NET concepts, as those all fade away slowly when you don't use them for a while... Now, one of those refreshed concepts is ASP.NET's caching.

• OpenXML in Healthcare in PHP

  26 Oct, 2007

  Here's a cool present just before the weekend... 2 days ago, Wouter posted on his blog about an article he co-operated on for MSDN: OpenXML in Healthcare. Being both a Microsoft and PHP fan (yes, you can curse me, I don't care), I thought of porting (part of) the sample code from his article into PHP. Except for the document signing, as I did not have many time to write this sample code...

• Generic arrays in PHP

  22 Oct, 2007

  Assuming everyone knows what generics are, let's get down to business right away. PHP does not support generics or something similar, though it could be very useful in PHP development.  Luckily, using some standard OO-practises, a semi-generic array can easily be created, even in multiple ways! Here's the road to PHP generics.

• Inheritance is evil!

  12 Oct, 2007

  Read this on Bernie's blog: "All of the pain caused by inheritance can be traced back to the fact that inheritance forces 'is-a' rather than 'has-a' relationships. If class R2Unit extends Droid, then a R2Unit is-a Droid. If class Jedi contains an instance variable of type Lightsabre, then a Jedi has-a Lightsabre. The difference between is-a and has-a relationships is well known and a fundamental part of OOAD, but what is less well known is that almost every is-a relationship would be better off re-articulated as a has-a relationship."

• Enabling HTTP proxy for .NET webservice client

  10 Oct, 2007

  Have you ever written code that makes external (Soap) webservice calls? Tried that same code on your company network? Most of the time, this does not work very well due to a proxy server sitting in between, requiring authentication etc. You can start tweaking your Web.config file to set this proxy the right way, or you can override the generated web service class and include the following code snippet: [code:c#] using System; using System.Net;

• Remove unnecessary HTTP modules from the ASP.NET pipeline

  21 Sep, 2007

  Trying to speed up some things in a demo ASP.NET application for a customer, I found a really simple and effective way to remove some HTTP modules from the ASP.NET pipeline. When you are not using WindowsAuthentication or PassportAuthentication or ..., you can easily disable those modules. This decreases ASP.NET bootstrapping time as there are fewer object creations to do every page load...

• Creating Office2007 documents in C#

  6 Sep, 2007

• Automatically generate SandCastle documentation using CruiseControl.NET or VSTS Team Build

  28 Aug, 2007

  Earlier this week, I was playing around with SandCastle, and found that the SandCastle Help File Builder (SHFB) was a great tool to quickly create SandCastle documentation. No more XML writing, just a few clicks and documentation is compiled into a HTML Help file or as a MSDN-style website.

• PackageExplorer, not only great for OpenXML...

  27 Aug, 2007