Category: Development

JS Windows a Modern Web UI Anti-Pattern

Recently I’ve been helping a developer friend with a number of issues he’s been having with web application he’s writing. The problem? “User opens this JS Window, which contains a 3rd party PDF viewer, then they close that and click another document, and the JS Window is empty”. My first gut reaction, why are you
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Multi Threading Entity Framework and MARS

Recently I’ve had some persistent exceptions coming from some backend worker processes running on Azure. These worker role jobs are multi threaded processes that constantly run as long as the service has been started. Entity Framework, via a repository and unit of work pattern (thank you Ninject) is the backing persistent data store. This issue
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