November 26th, 2007
“Unexpected Error 0×8ffe2740 Occurred” - this message appeared today on my PC when I was trying to start IIS. A while of “googling” revealed that this is rather normal behavior of the server 
According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816944 this error occurs when some other application uses port 80 (default for a web server).
Instead of expressive error message they create KB article with explanations
October 26th, 2007
Every coder sometimes encounters a situation when a bug must be fixed. At the begining it looks for a very easy task... but the code reveals that it might be quite tricky 
Here is one of most common antipattern - hardcoding mixed with magic numbers. Please fasten your seatbelts 
C#:
EditorDatabase EditorDB =
new EditorDatabase
();
if (UserIDTextBox.
Text ==
"0" && LoginRoleDropDownList.
SelectedValue ==
"11")
{
EditorDB.
Save(CodeHiddenField.
Value, TextGridView.
Rows[rowID
].
Cells[5].
Text,
System.
Convert.
ToInt32(TextGridView.
Rows[rowID
].
Cells[10].
Text), TextGridView.
Rows[rowID
].
Cells[8].
Text,
0, spr, TextGridView.
Rows[rowID
].
Cells[11].
Text).
ExecuteNonQuery();
}
else
{
EditorDB.
Save(CodeHiddenField.
Value, TextGridView.
Rows[rowID
].
Cells[5].
Text,
System.
Convert.
ToInt32(TextGridView.
Rows[rowID
].
Cells[10].
Text), TextGridView.
Rows[rowID
].
Cells[8].
Text,
System.
Convert.
ToInt32(UserDropDownList.
SelectedValue), spr, TextGridView.
Rows[rowID
].
Cells[11].
Text).
ExecuteNonQuery();
}
