I had started to get this annoying error when I ran my web app:
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
Simple fix. Add back those virtual keywords onto my POCOs that somehow disappeared.
public int Id {get;set} –> public virtual int Id {get;set;}
AS A NOTE – WEB DEPLOY IS MUCH BETTER THAN FTP PUBLISHING - Just letting you know 
This is my quick guide ( i.e. how i did it) on how to get FTP Publishing working on a Amazon Instance Website.
I found two new tricks to make all these things work together for debugging a Visual Studio Asp.Net web project on Localhost. Here they are:
And there you go! A working Fiddler session off the Localhost.
This is about Codility Candidate Testing
I just did a test on Codility and it’s great! In fact, this is sooo much than PreVisor (http://select2perform.com) which I had to use the other day.
You can write your code in any language (as long as its in Java, C#, C++, Javascript, Ruby, Pearl, Python, Pascal, C and I think a few more)
Maybe I like it because I did so well
You have a simple test system initially so you can check if your code compiles and fits the initial test. Then you submit it to the hard core tests which tries to break it, and you get a score.
The analysis is very cool:
And I know why i failed test 4. Should have used double instead of int. But that’s why you use TDD, ‘cause those mistakes are easily made.
I needed the outlines of most countries for a simple GIS project that I’m doing. I managed to find a world simple shapes file from http://mappinghacks.com/ called TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.2.zip
This was in a shapes format used by ARC GIS and the likes, but I needed it in an easy to consume manner i.e. XML
So taking it, feeding it through MapWindow GIS and a shareware plugin “Shape2Earth” (a shapefile to KML converter) I received a KML file out the other side.
As it was a bit bloated, I built a console app using some hideous code turned it into a nice usable XML doc.
Here’s an example of the result showing the UK, France, etc, produced in DeepEarth:
Deciphering should be pretty easy. Here is the rundown:
A country has a name and ISO3 tag and one to many polygons.
Each polygon has one outer bound (outer island) and zero to many inner bounds (inner islands) for where the country isn’t (as in Swaziland inside South Africa).
Easy stuff. Here’s the zipped download:
Let me know where you use it!
There is no licence except where mappinghacks.com applies one, but I couldn’t see one there. Tell me if I’m wrong.
Just made a quick and dirty Ubiquity command for StackOverflow searches.
Download from GitHub: Ubiquity StackOverflow Search
Don’t know Ubiquity?
It’s like a Command Line for the web but… it’s really cool! Trust me. Watch the clip below. Sure it starts out dull, but then so does District 9. Then bam, explosions and stuff! It’s not 0.1 anymore either, so ignore that bit.
The link to get it is https://mozillalabs.com/ubiquity/
Then go to about:ubiquity and read the Commands. There are lots!
But how do you fix it? The weird thing is that to fix it, you install another program: Adobe Shockwave
Don’t know how or why, but it fixes the high CPU usage where Firefox sits at 99% or 100%
Strange huh?
You should probably update Adobe Flash while you’re at it anyway. Do it first, that way it’s all associated nicely.
Whatever I think of Godaddy, they haven’t caused me too much pain yet, just minor inconvenience. This time it’s my precious StructureMap.
StructureMap, I like it and alot of people do, but it just won’t work under Medium Trust! So it’s either time to change Hosts, or change IoC container. Pretty obvious which one is the easier choice here.
So what choice do you have? Well not much. So the answer is:
Here’s a nice manual to go with it.
And what’s not able to be run in medium / partial trust:
Windsor Castle
Spring.Net
StructureMap
There was someone who was explaining how to download and build Spring.Net to allow it to run under Medium Trust, but that seems pretty likely to cause issues when you hack code (try to ignore my NHibernate post when I say that).
It may be the same for the other 2, but off the bat, Unity wins.
*Caveat: Unity is restricted in what it can do when run without ReflectionPermission (which is what Medium Trust disallows), but typically this won’t affect much from the normal IoC behaviour. The restrictions are explained on this MSDN doc, but it’s to do with internal and private constructors and properties. If it’s public you should be sweet.
Ok, so Log4Net is not that bad. It is a very good logging system, etc…
So how do you perform IoC with the NHibernate logger? Well, you can’t. Unless you are ready to HACK CODE.
That’s the brilliant thing about open source. Take it and modify until its the shade of green that suits you.
The First Warning
If you modify the DLL for NHibernate, then all associated DLL’s break.
For me this means FluentNHibernate wont like you. So you will have to rebuild that too for the new NHibernate DLL.
According to the bug report for exactly this issue, in the future log4net will be removed as a dependency (yay). For the logger interface Commons.Logging has been “sort-of” chosen. Meaning: you should use the ILog interface from Commons.Logging for your Log interface! Make’s it a bit more future proof.
What I did to have IoC : 2nd Warning – This is not a concise walkthrough
This is a direct quote from the Wikipedia page on Global.asax. Just thought it would be nice to a quick list to refer to.
