I wanted to see how Microsoft’s Task Parallel Library compared with node.js in so far as passing the next method in to the current to chain the calls indefinitely. So I created a method that iteratively adds itself to the current executing Task. The initial test was to see if the code would fail with a StackOverflowException but what I… Read more →
Month: January 2014
Sql Server Shrink Log File
Easy with Simple Recovery DBCC SHRINKFILE (“<FileName>_Log”, 1); GO otherwise http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/0a7a7fc5-d30e-4841-8ed1-84676b575e55/sql-server-2012-how-to-shrink-the-database-transaction-log USE AdventureWorks2008R2; GO — Truncate the log by changing the database recovery model to SIMPLE. ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2008R2 SET RECOVERY SIMPLE; GO — Shrink the truncated log file to 1 MB. DBCC SHRINKFILE (AdventureWorks2008R2_Log, 1); GO — Reset the database recovery model. ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2008R2 SET RECOVERY FULL; GO Read more →
node.js calling multiple web services in parallel
http://askhds.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/nodejs-rest-call-using-http-library.html var http = require(‘http’); // Add helloworld module var helloworld = require(‘helloworld_mod’); http.createServer(function(req, res) { res.writeHead(200, { ‘Content-Type’ : ‘text/xml’ }); try { // Bypass function call to “Google Maps API” getFromGoogle(req, res); } catch (e) { res.end(“Try again later”); } }).listen(1337, ‘127.0.0.1’); console.log(‘Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/’); console.log(‘Type the URL in address bar’); console.log(‘http://127.0.0.1:1337/maps/api/geocode/xml?’ + ‘address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&sensor=false’); function getFromGoogle(mainreq, mainres)… Read more →
Extract details from an Expression
I wanted to come up with a way of establishing the type name and property name when applying general validations within my code. So, for example for this validation:. var bool = Requires.IsNotNull(user.lastName) I have to explicitly code the exception: throw NullReferenceException(“User.lastName”) What I’d like is for all this to happen when I declare the test, without double typing the… Read more →
Inversion of Control in node.js
Interesting article to get things started http://blog.nodejitsu.com/ioc-and-dependency-injection-with-broadway Read more →