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• Voting software with remote units - architectural questions

  - by David Neale

  I'm looking at designing some software that registers live votes (let's say A,B,C or D). The vote needs to be picked up and processed by a .NET engine. The remote voting units should be as small as possible. What form of data transmission should be used for the voting? The data is obviously very simple but there is a need to make sure each unit can only vote once per question. How would the data be received by the computer running the software?

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• DNN 5.2.3 "GetPortalAliasByPortalID @PortalID=0" looping

  - by David Neale

  After tracing the DB activity from a DNN 5.2.3 site I noticed that there are 15 calls to the "dbo.GetPortalAliasByPortalID @PortalID=0" sproc, all one after the other. What is the reason for this? I am looking at performance problems and need to try and tie issues like these up.

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• F# - core benefits

  - by David Neale

  Since the release of VS 2010 I've seen F# more strongly advertised by Microsoft. What are the core benefits of using this language? What problems does it most naturally lend itself to? What is the learning curve like?

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• var in C# - Why can't it be used as a member variable?

  - by David Neale

  Why is it not possible to have implicitly-typed variables at a class level within C# for when these variables are immediately assigned? ie: public class TheClass { private var aList = new List<string>(); } Is it just something that hasn't been implemented or is there a conceptual/technical reason for why it hasn't been done?

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• Most common applications of the C# 4.0 dynamic type

  - by David Neale

  Now that people have been using C# 4.0 for a while I thought I'd see how people were most often using the type 'dynamic' and why has this helped them solve their problem better than they may have done previously?

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• ASP.NET MVC Web Controls - good or bad

  - by David Neale

  What are your opinions on using web controls in an MVC context? I came across a good discussion here http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2009/04/09/asp-net-mvc-controls-and-good-versus-evil.aspx but would like to know what the community thinks.

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• How do I upload a files to google app engine app when field name is not known

  - by Michael Neale

  I have tried a few options, none of which seem to work (if I have a simple multipart form with a named field, it works well, but when I don't know the name I can't just grab all files in the request...). I have looked at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/81451/upload-files-in-google-app-engine and it doesn't seem suitable (or to actually work, as someone mentioned the code snipped it untested).

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• Getting user data from Active Directory using PL/SQL

  - by David Neale

  I had a discussion today regarding an Oracle procedure I wrote some time ago. I wanted to get 7500 user email addresses from Active Directory using PL/SQL. AD will return a maximum of 1000 rows and the LDAP provider used by Oracle will not support paging. Therefore, my solution was to filter on the last two characters of the sAMAccountName (*00,*01,*02...etc.). This results in 126 queries (100 for account names ending in digits, 26 for those ending in a letter...this was sufficient for my AD setup). The person I was speaking to (it was a job interview by the way) said he could have done it a better way, but he would not tell me what that method was. Could anybody hazard a guess at what this method was?

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• Is there still a place for XML in the future?

  - by David Neale

  Now that many people seem to be moving towards JSON for web communication I am wondering about why XML should continue to be used. I appreciate that XML has many years on JSON, during which time it has been widely adopted. However, the fact that it is so well-adopted appears to be the one decisive reason why it should continue to be used. Is there a good reason why XML should not gradually be phased out in favour of JSON?

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• C# 4.0 Named Parameters - should they always be used when calling non-Framework methods?

  - by David Neale

  I really this is a hugely subjective topic but here is my current take: When calling methods which do not form part of the .NET BCL named parameters should always be used as the method signatures may well change, especially during the development cycle of my own applications. Although they might appear more verbose they are also far clearer. Is the above a reasonable approach to calling methods or have I overlooked something fundamental?

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• Is there a way to wrap some local cache around a URLConnection

  - by Michael Neale

  I am using a URLConnection class - I want to be able to grab a stream to a given URL even if said URL is unavailable (ie cache the last known cope of the content on a URL, to some local file system dir) - now I have written this code a few times (never happy with it) and was wondering if there is something better out there that might be able to do this.

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• passing xml to a webservice

  - by Neale

  I have a simple web service that will have one method: DoTransactions(xlm) Now the reason that i am using XML as a parameter is due to the fact that the parameters will often change. So for example it could be: <payload> <userId>1234</userid> <partnerId>ptn654</partnerId> </payload> OR <payload> <partnerId>ptn654</partnerId> <items> <item1> <cost>10</cost> <description>This is item 1</description> </item1> </items> </payload> As you can see the XML string will always change (this is due to a client request) Would it be better to rather pass in a string and parse the XML in the method or should is there a better way to do it. This web service will be used for varios different code languages.

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• Longest realistic method name

  - by David Neale

  There's always a need to make method names as concise as possible but without getting too long and waffly. At what point is a method name far too long to possibly be justified?

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