My presence on online social services
I use two online social services: LinkedIn (en) and GoldenLine (pl). My activities there mostly include adding people I know or work with to my connection lists. I think it’s a good idea to keep such list of friends; you never know, when you need to contact somebody you knew in the past. Also, one…
adminexpressivo
I wonder if you’ever heard of expressivo? If you haven’t, have a look; if you’ve seen that, play with it again By and large, expressivo is an online service that provided text-to-speech reader (and not only). It produces speech in English, Polish and Romanian. To generate speech it uses IVONA TTS. I don’t know Romanian…
Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming
After a while (busy days…) I’ve got a new book: Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming by Robert Vieira. I’m not considering myslef a SQL Server expert but to be honest I was afraid of this beginning word in the title. Yet I’ve been using SQL Server for a couple of years (apart from Java, C#,…
Upgrade do WordPress 2.8 i problem z kodowaniem polskich znaków
I’m sorry if you are an English spoken reader but this post is published in Polish. The reason for that is it describes a problem with encoding of some Polish characters after upgrading to WordPress 2.8, so a problem that only Poles should be interested in. This blog is still supposed to be maintained in…
Reporting Services – how to change font style in the toolbar of ReportViewer?
I created a report with SQL Server Reporting Services. It displayed some data and the toolbar with list of checkboxes that defined which columns should be displayed on the report (see the screenshot below). The problem was the font on the toolbar didn’t match the font on the report, i.e. it was huge in comparison…
Hi there
It was almost two months ago when I wrote the last post… Nevertheless quite a number of things happened to me during that time: I came back from Galway (Ireland) to Gdansk (Poland) – I finished my research at DERI I graduated from the Gdansk University of Technology, major Distributed Applications and Internet Systems –…
LoadTest: MethodAccessException Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebTesting.WebTest.set_Outcome
I had a load test that used a coded web test. At some point the coded web test changed, i.e. this line was added: Outcome = Outcome.Fail;. After this change the test stopped working – it always ended with error message: ‘User aborted test run’. Apart from that each iteration of the web test produced…
How to abort load test when its scenario fails?
By definition a load test is supposed to simulate many users accessing a server at the same time. It consists of series of iterations, which can be either Web tests or unit tests. Each operation is repeated the defined number of times for each virtual user. A load test completes with status ‘Completed’. If one…
IIS: Disable the web site and display generic app offline information
Deployment of a new version of a site is a very tricky/risky procedure. At some point (i.e. until deployment is not completed) your service will work not as it is supposed to, which can result in reset session, HTTP errors displayed, etc. Whatever the result is it can really discourage the users of your service…