A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert Heinlein, crossing my attention via Art of Manliness.
Yeah. IIS is a web server. And when we inject code into its very guts like this, we have to account for the fact that multiple instances of said code are being run at any given time.
To pull off the fix for our original cavalier implementation, we must add a static flag and a mutex to theApplicationStartHandler class, using them in combination to ensure that the OnStart method is run once (and only once):
public abstract class ApplicationStartHandler : IHttpModule { private readonly static object _mutex = new object(); private static bool _initialized = false; protected abstract void OnStart(); public void Init(HttpApplication application) { if (!_initialized) lock (_mutex) if (!_initialized) Application_Start(); } private void Application_Start() { _initialized = true; OnStart(); } public void Dispose() { } }Our OnStart method will now indeed run once and only once when the HttpApplication starts up, with no Global.asax in sight. And because we were gentlemen about the whole abstracting thing, our consuming code (in this case, the ServiceStackStarter class above) need not change in response to this fix.
How to Approximate Application_Start in SharePoint Like a Gentleman [ Aptera ]
There are many reasons to practice the demo but one of the biggest benefit is catching missed requirements. I couldn’t list the number of times one team member would demonstrate a feature only to realize they had left something out or made a simple mistake, usually before the person they were demonstrating to could even catch it. The simple act of walking through the feature slowly proved immensely beneficial.
We are Principled: 6th Edition [ 8th Light ]
Corporate stooge Yoda. /cc @danbenjamin @hotdogsladies
What can I say? Inspiration struck. It struck hard, and left a mark. I may need an aspirin.
EDIT: You may want to go all the way back to http://5by5.tv/pipeline/7 if this makes no sense. That or the early episodes of Back To Work, http://5by5.tv/b2w. The “corporate stooge” is, naturally, from the excellent QUIT! podcast, also from 5by5, http://5by5.tv/quit
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The problem isn’t that it’s impossible to pick yourself. The problem is that it’s frightening to pick yourself. It’s far easier to put your future into someone else’s hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.
But I don’t want to do that, I want to do this [ Seth’s Blog ]
