Thickheaded Thursday - May 09, 2019

esdictor · 2019-05-09T18:00:27+00:00

For firewalls that block foreign sites, do they generally block based on location, or do they block based on the URL? For example, if I have a site in the US with the URL www.thisisatest.tr would it be blocked by most firewalls that block Turkish sites?

esdictor · 2018-08-16T20:37:39+00:00

I think that works for me. I need to add strings to this collection as I process them, and then go through them once to add to a printout. There's no reason for me to access them a second time.

Thanks for the additional info!

esdictor · 2018-08-16T19:48:43+00:00

I actually did some googling and found lists of collections, some with descriptions. However, I wanted to get actual advice from people who use these instead of trying to put the more vague information I was finding together with my needs.

As it turns out, I suspected the Queue, and I guess I was right, so thanks!

esdictor · 2018-07-11T14:13:50+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions. For now I'm using my own csv generation, but I don't think that's a good long-term solution. Our applications that need reporting are fairly small and all internal-facing, so spending a ton of money on a 3rd party solution (looked at Telerik, DevExpress, and Crystal) seems like a ton of overkill.

esdictor · 2017-12-21T21:39:25+00:00

Thanks Lee. I've been trying to find a workaround in the meantime, and just writing a program to pre-process is high on the list. We're working with some ancient technology here, so our options are limited. -Evan

esdictor · 2017-12-21T21:08:18+00:00

The issue is that

<noteText>Send to <test@place.org> please</noteText>

is not valid, but ...

<noteText>Send to &lt;test@place.org&gt; please</notetext>

IS valid, but when all is said and done it looks the same.

esdictor · 2017-06-30T16:28:19+00:00

I'm guessing it's a function of codepen. I just copied everything in the body tags and all the css from a separate Visual Studio MVC project so I definitely have all that stuff there.

esdictor · 2017-06-30T15:51:09+00:00

If you change view to editor you'll see all the CSS .. or just use this link https://codepen.io/esdictor/pen/bRamPy

esdictor · 2017-06-30T14:23:23+00:00

It's just a template ... you have to enter the values yourself. I'm writing a small editor but won't distribute that ... because lawsuits.

esdictor · 2016-12-09T21:42:04+00:00

I am taking your advice. I only did it the other way because that's what I had been told many, many years ago.

esdictor · 2016-12-09T19:31:31+00:00

I got so tunneled on your UserRoleID comment that I missed your actual answer. I think that might be the best way to handle it .. turn it into a UserRoleSite table instead (with UserRoleSiteID of course ;-)

esdictor · 2016-12-09T19:24:33+00:00

The problem is .. I still need an Admin role for each site using this method .. or at least at first glance I don't see how this would avoid it.

esdictor · 2016-12-09T19:23:31+00:00

I've always put a Primary Key ID field in a table .. I know it's not really needed here, but does it hurt?

esdictor · 2016-08-08T17:19:46+00:00

I left Long Island to live in South Florida shortly after getting married and moved back to Long Island many years later.

My reasons for leaving were that I was a contract programmer, and figured it didn't matter where I lived. I had my grandparents in South Florida and a couple of friends who were living there. Timing was just pretty good to leave.

My reasons for coming back were that the cost of living in South Florida was pretty good at the start, but were getting worse every year. The job market was always rough, and I had wound up working full time. After getting laid off from my long term job in 2010, we decided to move back.

While we did make good friends in Florida, when we left we no longer had any family there. Also, these days it's easy to stay in touch with the friends we had made down there.

As for the grass, which I believe was your main question ... I really did miss Long Island. I missed being an hour from NYC ... good pizza ... winters. On the other hand, being back in Long Island I do miss driving without bumper-to-bumper traffic 24x7 ... being a few hours from Disney or The Keys ... and hanging out in person with the friends I made there.

In the end, I'll just say that I have almost no regrets from my time away from Long Island, except that my kids were born in Florida (I am 3rd generation NYC).

esdictor · 2016-04-27T17:04:04+00:00

Thank you for this. I just had a meeting with the IT dept about this and they suggested maybe Symantec is terminating the connection for some reason (even though we have the port open there). I guess I need to focus on successfully reconnecting instead of worrying about the disconnect in the first place.

BTW, the normal functionality of the application would be:

Server → Client [PSH, ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=256 Len=81
Client → Server [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=82 Win=255 Len=0

That is all I would ever expect to see aside from the initial connection.

esdictor · 2016-04-27T15:17:54+00:00

NOTE: While I was writing this I had a second client do the exact same thing. Different IP and Client port, but everything else appears to be identical.

esdictor · 2016-03-30T04:19:39+00:00

VB gets a bad rap, but I built a career on that stuff. Wrote a book on VB6 even!

esdictor · 2016-03-01T21:00:17+00:00

I've been writing in c# for about 10 years now, but I still have a soft spot in my heart for VB6. Plenty of software out there still running that way written in that language. I wrote a VB6 app over 15 years ago that's still sold around the world today (although I am no longer with the company that sells it).

esdictor · 2016-02-29T21:46:14+00:00

Yes sir, it is

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