Software Developer
Captain Codeman
Who is Captain Codeman? Ok, so I may not be too good at hiding my not-too-secret identity ... and Ok, I admit too that I probably don't have any real super powers or a cape (can you just buy those?). I am a software developer though and thought I'd share some of the things I discover as I try to improve my own skills and abilities.
Posts by Captain Codeman
Running ElasticSearch as a Service on Windows 2008 x64
May 20th
How to run ElasticSearch as a Windows Service on Windows 2008 x64
Limit MongoDB memory use on Windows without Virtualization
Feb 27th
How to limit MongoDB memory use on Windows without virtualization by making use of the Windows System Resource Manager.
Error with Azure local development storage and table named ‘event’
Jun 30th
While working on an Azure event-sourcing provider for my CQRS framework I came across a really strange problem so I’m posting the details in-case anyone else comes across a similar issue so they can save wasting as much time on it as I did! Basically, the local development storage doesn’t seem to like you having
Pattern for efficiently paging database rows on a web page
Jun 6th
The technique I use for paging through database rows which I’ve found works efficiently and is easy to re-use. It works well for both traditional and AJAX requests and handles sorting and filtering requirements as well. This is based on ASP.NET MVC, jQuery and NHibernate + SQL Server but the principals will be the same for other technologies.
Running MongoDb on Microsoft Windows Azure with CloudDrive
May 24th
I’ve been playing around with the whole CQRS approach and think MongoDb works really well for the query side of things. I also figured it was time I tried Azure so I had a look round the web to see if there we’re instructions on how to run MongoDb on Microsoft’s Azure cloud. It turned out