Monthly Archive: August 2008

Delicious Irony

Delicious Irony

Storm could swamp GOP convention Planners of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul held emergency conversations Wednesday about what to do if a tropical storm continues on its track as a potential Category 3 hurricane threatening New Orleans. Gustav’s...

Fatal Execution Engine Failure(0x7927e03e) and WCF

Fatal Execution Engine Failure(0x7927e03e) and WCF

An interesting issue cropped up during development this week.  It centered around a mysterious error that was happening in our web applications and causing IIS to crash…hard.  Peeking in the event log, I found the following error:

It was...

The Sandbox

The Sandbox

One mistake that I see time and time again, even from experienced developers, is trying to model new ideas, new techniques, and/or new designs directly into a working codebase. In my own experience, I’ve come to find this to be...