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IIS as Reverse Proxy for CouchDB Written on July 2, 2011, by Mehmetali Shaqiri. |
For the last couple of days, I’ve been using CouchDB and ExtJS on a project I’m currently working on. For those unfamiliar with CouchDB, it is a free and open source document-oriented database written in the Erlang programming language. It is designed for local replication and to scale vertically along a wide range of devices. Provides [...]
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Applying where conditions for all select queries behind scenes – LINQ to SQL Written on May 26, 2011, by Mehmetali Shaqiri. |
While discussing with a friend of mine, he was telling me about a project he was working on recently. Instead of deleting records from the table, he replaced the concept of delete with update … on every table he had an additional attribute Active (bit) which indicates whether the record is deleted or is active. Because [...]
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Introduction to MEF Written on May 14, 2011, by Mehmetali Shaqiri. |
It has been a while since I’ve written a blog post about, well anything … partially because I’ve been very busy and mainly because I’m a bit lazy. As you can see from the title of this post, I’ve intentionally decided to break this “huge hiatus” with MEF. One of the main reasons is because [...]
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Troubleshooting the database could not be exclusively locked to perform the operation error on SQL Server Written on February 20, 2010, by Mehmetali Shaqiri. |
Recently we have started to implement our own Content Management System codename DeepThought and when testing the creation of articles and menus we realized that we cannot use the default database collation of SQL Server. The reason is that in future we might have clients that require the use of Cyrillic characters. Therefore the collation that should be used for these cases is SQL_Latin1_General_CP1251_CS_AS.
But when trying to change the collation I came across the following error: The database could not be exclusively locked to perform the operation.
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Happy New Year 2010 Written on January 2, 2010, by Mehmetali Shaqiri. |
I’d like to wish to all of our readers a happy new year.
Each day we grow as developers and also in 2010 we’ll be here to continue to share our experience on solving complex programming problems and inspirational highlights.
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Implementing Strategy Pattern in C# Written on November 6, 2009, by Mehmetali Shaqiri. |
As a software developer, my primary goal is making my code correct, elegant, extensible and efficient. Although simplistic, every programming decision I make is largely based on maintainability. Back at my studies (Computer Sciences in SEE-University) I had the chance to read C# 3.0 Design Patterns by Judith Bishop, a great book which covers the full set of 23 patterns that were originally proposed in Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides’s Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software in 1994. By reading this book, I’ve acquired skills in: programming design patterns, basic UML modeling notation, ability to select appropriate patterns for given scenarios and advanced language features of C# 3.0. I highly recommend this book.
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The Answer To Life, The Universe and Everything Written on October 21, 2009, by Mehmetali Shaqiri. |
One quiet morning, while going through the motions of my daily routine – drinking coffee with my fellow programmers, I got a call from a client who said: I just checked our vacancies page and it sucks, we don’t have an online form where users would submit their information but instead they have to fill the form locally and then send it to us by mail or fax. We have to improve this fast. I need this for tomorrow!