Daily Archives: October 19, 2006

WS-FTP Pro 2006 and IE7 : “NEVER!” ?

Tools

I have WS-FTP Pro 7.0 on both multiple computers as well as the newly released IE7.

One computer has no troubles. The other gives me this interesting error when I try to start it up:

The only solution is to click ok and then kill the app from task manager.

Luckily, I found this thread in the Ipswitch forums (which also decries a lack of support from WS-FTP) where a user (who is clearly a pit-bull and chose not to give up on finding a solution – thank you Suzy!!!) has managed to find how to fix the problem, which calls for “hiding” an outdated file.

navigate to where your WSFTP is installed e.g.
c:/program files/ipswitch/ws_ftp professional
and rename PSAPI.dll to PSAPI.dll.old and then reboot

It worked. Yay.

.NET Jobs: ASP.NET Developers in Lebanon, New Hamphire

Jobs

Nexus Energy Software is growing again. Headquartered in Wellesley, MA, we are looking for professional Software Engineers for our Lebanon, NH office.

We’re looking for mid-level and senior Engineers to join our talented development team who like to keep their software skills up-to-date and take pride in delivering high quality solutions to satisfied customers.

We offer competitive salaries, medical, dental, 401K, and more in a dynamic yet relaxed work place. www.nexusenergy.com.

Work as a member of our development team in designing, developing and unit testing company applications using solid software development processes and practices. Our applications provide billing, account management and energy analysis functionality for utility customers.

5-10 years of SW development experience, VB.NET and/or C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, XML, XSLTs, SQL, source control software and Visual Studio, maintaining code written by others, strong problem solving skills required. Experience with build and installation tools a plus.

Please forward your resume with salary requirements to:

Nexus Energy Software;

laurie.nexusenergysoftware@comcast.net

Fax: 508.879.3898

Equal Opportunity Employer

No phone calls or third parties, please.

Code Camp 6 (Boston) Schedule is up – NOTE SATURDAY ONLY!

dotNET

The schedule for this weekend’s Code Camp in Waltham, Mass is live. This Code Camp will be packing all of the sessions into one day – Saturday, rather than spread out over two.

If you haven’t registered to attend yet, you can register here.

I’ll be doing three talks throughout the day:

9am: Managing and Deploying ASP.NET 2.0 Website: This talk is aimed at sorting out all of the options for creating, compiling and deploying ASP.NET 2.0 websites along with tips for making the best choices.

1:15 pm: Persisting Ink on the Web. If you are interested in creating ASP.NET Web apps with ink capabilities for Tablet PC users, this session offers a slew of information about what to do with the ink once it’s collected. Handling ink in a website is very different than working with it in a windows application. This session will deal with things like how to deal with postbacks, sending the ink to another web page, storing ink into a database and retriving it and getting ink to and from web services and more.

4:45 pm: Handling Big Data in ADO.NET 2.0: Most demos and samples for ADO.NET deal with small amounts of data and simplistic functions. This session will take a look at how to design and code your data layer for dealing with real-world, high-end, data-intensive applications. We’ll look at some advanced patterns for handling more sophisticated scenarios such as updating huge amounts of data, leveraging middle-tier caching for heavy traffic Web sites, and an inmemory query processor that the ADO.NET team has built that we can use today. Much of what will be shown will leverage features of ADO.NET 2.0 as well as some of the performance improvements that have been made to the internals.