Author Archives: David Hogue

Plugging a ConnectionProvider in to NHibernate to connect to multiple databases

Posted on February 7, 2012 by David Hogue

I recently had a scenario where I needed to connect to a variety of databases depending on context. The databases all shared the same schema, the contents were just partitioned out based on customer. I’d originally done this with many … Continue reading →

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Where does the time go?

Posted on January 11, 2012 by David Hogue

It seems like I don’t have any time these days. I’m getting a lot done, but is it the stuff I want to be spending my time on? And could I be more efficient about getting through it? Between work … Continue reading →

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Some WinDbg notes for troubleshooting excessive memory usage

Posted on December 30, 2011 by David Hogue

A little while ago I ran into some problems with the w3wp process gobbling up tons of memory. It ate up so much memory that after running for a few hours with high traffic, it would automatically get restarted by … Continue reading →

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Performance Monitor Tips & Tricks

Posted on December 6, 2011 by David Hogue

I’ve been doing a lot of digging into performance monitor this last week or so and learned some new tricks. I thought I’d write this up and share what I found in case it’s useful in the future: Command line … Continue reading →

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Finally merged my old blog over to this one

Posted on October 28, 2011 by David Hogue

I swear this is the last post I’m writing for a while on the topic of blogging. Really! It took me a while, but I finally merged the content from my old blog to this one. It wasn’t too hard … Continue reading →

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On Working Remotely and Practicing Writing Skills

Posted on October 24, 2011 by David Hogue

I’ve been doing a decent amount of work outside the office recently (or telecommuting as they used to call it.) This has been working pretty well, but I’ve been trying to improve my communication skills since that’s been a little … Continue reading →

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Blog Redesign

Posted on October 23, 2011 by David Hogue

I’m updating the design of this place so it doesn’t have the stock WordPress theme going on anymore. It was a decent enough look, but I wanted something that was mine. I’m no designer and I know I could find … Continue reading →

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Stupid Router Tricks (or how to use DD-WRT to extend the range of a network)

Posted on October 21, 2011 by David Hogue

I recently found myself in a situation where I had no direct internet connection where I was staying. I did find a public wifi signal, but it was very weak. At first I tried sitting over on the side of … Continue reading →

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Reconfiguring the load balancer to check via HTTP

Posted on October 13, 2011 by David Hogue

So this comes from a work experience. For a project, I was looking into reconfiguring the load balancer we were using… We’re using loadbalancer.org. Which uses Linux-HA which uses ldirectord to monitor servers. There are a few options for how … Continue reading →

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Changing which conversation an email is grouped in with Outlook 2010

Posted on August 8, 2011 by David Hogue

Outlook 2010 has a conversation grouping feature that can be pretty handy when you have a lot of different conversations headed to your inbox. However sometimes it gets confused. Unfortunately it’s pretty poor at handling a few situations: when several … Continue reading →

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