Author: Charles Chen

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...

“Stupid Should Hurt”

“Stupid Should Hurt”

I caught this phrase scrawled on Woody Paige‘s blackboard last night on Around the Horn (one of the few television shows I watch somewhat regularly). I love it. Glenn Campbell on “stupidity”: During our childhood, we are given a certain...

Lessons From The Mythical Man Month

Lessons From The Mythical Man Month

Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man Month is one of my favorite software engineering books.  I first read it in my senior software engineering class at Rutgers.  From time to time in my daily routine of software implementaion, I flash back...

Deleting ExtensionData From JavaScript

Deleting ExtensionData From JavaScript

WCF DataContracts include an ExtensionData property which is a bit troublesome if you are trying to send a modified object back up to the service if it has no properties in Javascript. So I wrote a little piece of Javascript...

Is There Any Food Sriracha Sauce Can’t Fix?

Is There Any Food Sriracha Sauce Can’t Fix?

While reading his article from the NY Times on The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating, my curiosity regarding sardines was piqued.  Like most people (I’m just guessing here), sardines aren’t on my shopping list…ever.  So I had to google...