Archive for October, 2003

Catch(…) and rethrow

Wednesday, October 15th, 2003

Ned Batchelder said that he didn’t approve of the catch(…) but I think it’s necessary in this particular instance.  This is because when the UpdateRegistry method fails for any reason, the CopyFiles must be undone. What I missed is re-throwing the exception after fixing the stuff I knew I had to fix:     } catch […]

Posting with w.bloggar

Wednesday, October 15th, 2003

This seems like such a cool tool but where’s the WYSIWYG editing? The benefit of posting with w.bloggar is it pings weblogs.com for me.. I don’t think .Text does that (not sure how valuable it is but hey I had it with Radio and I got some hits that way).

Comparing Exceptions to Goto

Wednesday, October 15th, 2003

Joel (of www.joelonsoftware.com) says exceptions are bad, because they’re unclear and because they change program flow in ways you don’t expect. But unexpected errors change program flow in ways you don’t expect, too!  Exceptions can be thrown by software because it’s not happy, or they can be thrown by the OS because you’ve done something […]

Google not crawling my site.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2003

This is something I’m having a problem with.  I’m running a number of sites using Rainbow and Google is refusing to crawl them.  Google fetches the root page /default.asp, which redirects to Rainbow’s main page (the content management system I’m using), which returns the top page for that site, and then Google stops.  On each of the […]

Test article

Wednesday, October 15th, 2003

I would like to import my Radio articles..  

First Post!

Wednesday, October 15th, 2003

The folks that are addicted to getting the first post on Slashdot should set up their own blogging tools.  This is about my sixth first post on my own weblogs.. Welcome.