Kicking the Can Down the Road
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If I'm heads-down in a project during a coding frenzy, I forget after just a few minutes a lot of times. :) Of course, I'm old, and I have to consciously put brain time toward trying to get to the bathroom in time, so unimportant stuff like what a method that I just wrote does takes a back seat to the more immediate need... :)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013Of course, there is the other school of thought I don't subscribe to personally. If the code was hard to write it should be extremely difficult to modify, and impossible change". From time to time get to work with SDEs that think this is the way code should be.
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I would like to see how you do this
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
The article's been posted: A Connection string manager for multi-environment ecosystems[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
The connectionstring when "at rest" is not assembled into a string. It merely exists in its component parts. When you call the "Get" method to retrieve the connection string, it assembles the parts into a connection string, and either base64 encodes it, or 256-bit encrypts it (programmer's choice) and returns that encoded/encrypted string. When you're ready to access the database, you simply decode/decrypt it when you send it to the SqlConnection object. (We don't use Entity Framework or any other ORM, so this approach is no problem). Any using base64/encryption is optional as well, you can have it return a string as plain text as well.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
Of course, there is the other school of thought I don't subscribe to personally. If the code was hard to write it should be extremely difficult to modify, and impossible change". From time to time get to work with SDEs that think this is the way code should be.
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The article's been posted: A Connection string manager for multi-environment ecosystems[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
That's my Friday taken care of - thanks John
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
We're going to add the code to one of our projects to see how it goes. Until i see it work in the intended environment, it's all prettty much just theoretical. The sample app works within the context of my dev box, but I wanna put it on a live server to make sure it will actually do what I want. If you're up for it, feel free to relate your experience in the article forum.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
Quote from - Real men don't use Pascal It was difficult to write it should be difficult to understand. But that was meant to be funny.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
But if it was written and commented well, it will be relatively easy to understand.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
But if it was written and commented well, it will be relatively easy to understand.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
But if it was written and commented well, it will be relatively easy to understand.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
The main problem is that nobody wants to take on the task of implementing it in the apps they're responsible for. We have four devs on one (web) app, and the remaining six devs split their time among the other 11 apps. I am the lead on the team of four. My team is ready to jump on it, the other guys, not so much, because it means they'd have to actually do some work. The prospect of testing is what turns them off the most, I think, because implementation seems dead easy. In short, despite the need, nobody wants to put in the time. I think another problem is that they feel like I'm making them look bad by taking initiative where they wouldn't. I had a friend way back in the 70's that was in the Marines, who liked to say, "In the absence of other orders, attack." That's how I do it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
