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Subtitled: A meek little post to break a long spell of no posts… There’s a bit of a rabbit trail if this command does nothing: # /etc/init.d/apache2 start # echo $? 0 My problem was that the file /etc/init.d/apache2 was empty! To restore it, follow the tips here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-68459.html

This post (<a href=”http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik/archive/2008/08/21/malik-s-laws-of-service-oriented-architecture.aspx”>Malik’s Laws of Service Oriented Architecture</a>) is short, to the point and a no-nonsense comment on how Service Oriented Archictecure will (or will not) come of age in the enterprise. I’ve been thinking for a while that SOA evangelists are the enterprise counterpart of OO evangelists; both have reusability high on their [...]

On my one computer I had this straaaange behaviour. Everytime a page at lohan.me loads, the top gets a shaded block that keeps anyone from clicking on anything under it. I disabled all Firefox plugins, addons and, since its my blog, I disabled all bells and whistles. I tracked the issue down to Google Analytics, [...]

This one almost got me — as I went online my dad sends me a link through MSN Messenger: http://lohanj.historyshotz.com. Sounds interesting, I thought, but as I clicked it I thought, whooaa, my dad never send me links, and I never heard of historyshotz, so what gives? A quick search revealed a that its a [...]

I’m releasing the first series of articles next week on the theory of Life Surface Areas (LSAs): Your life surface area is the full extent of all relationships, assets, activities and desires that you have as you exist at this point in time. Think of your life as if it’s laid out on a land, [...]

Earlier this year, Microsoft released a document comparing performance between the .NET StockTrader and IBM WebSphere’s Trade 6.1 sample application. While the .NET solution kicked some WAS-ass (best .NET configuration was 2422 peak TPS vs 630 of WAS), it was more interesting to note the performance difference between a WCF configuration and the ASMX configuration [...]

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Use TVM_SETITEMHEIGHT to set a Treeview’s node height. It cannot be done individually, though, so use with care.

CreateProcess tip: Remember to double-up slashes when passing to Process.Start (eg \\My Documents\\Life.txt). [Update 2008/07/27] I have no clue why I said that — it won’t compile anyway? Oh well.

A quick one… check out The IdeaBlade Cabana Project for a 60-slide intro on the Composite UI Application block. The interesting bits are in the middle.