Programmer’s Frustration

I just wanted to share this great story by Damien Katz, a former programmer at Iris/Lotus. I first read it about a year ago and came across again today. It’s about Damien as a novice C++ programmer rewriting one of the core components of Lotus Notes/Domino – the formula engine, originally written by Ray Ozzie.… Continue reading Programmer’s Frustration

Failed to update database “XXX.MDF” because the database is read-only

After a few hours of Googling and testing things I finally solved this problem so I thought I’d write the solution down both for my own and other’s benefit. What I did to get the error:I had just done some changes to one of my web sites using Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 with… Continue reading Failed to update database “XXX.MDF” because the database is read-only

My return as a blogger…

Welcome to my blog! This is my second attempt at blogging. My first attempt was a personal blog on things that are not work (ie technology) related. So I blogged on what happened to Rick Astley and things like that. After a total of three or four posts over almost a year my poor blog… Continue reading My return as a blogger…