Dave Zych

The investigation of a site crash

When I woke up this morning I noticed by site had crashed with the following error: > Error establishing a database connection. Awesome. What a helpful error message. WordPress is basically saying: [https://davidzych.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/shrug.jpg] Thanks WordPress. I ssh’d into the server to see

Discourse: The way software should be

As you may have heard, I recently set up Discourse as my blog commenting system: > Installed @discourse [https://twitter.com/discourse] on @digitalocean [https://twitter.com/digitalocean] for my blog. Amazingly easy. http://t.co/U13jkoLssD — Dave Zych (@DaveZych) August 15, 2014 [https://twitter.com/DaveZych/statuses/500315843167662080] I have

Specifying package dependency versions in ASP.NET vNext

This post was inspired by this question on StackOverflow. [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25232344/managing-dependencies-in-vnext] Noel [http://stackoverflow.com/users/195910/noel] asks: > At the company I work at we do the following when we need references to third party dlls in our projects: * Use nuget to get package * Pull

Simplicity requires complexity

A major goal of a programmer is to try to map a complex analog world in a digital form. It’d be easy to follow in complexity’s footsteps and provide shoddy solutions to these problems. We have to remember, though, that simplicity is essential to the success of an

What are the last 4 characters of your password?

I used to have this blog hosted on Bluehost [http://www.bluehost.com]. I set up the hosting account years ago to host a gaming community and it had served it’s purpose well. I had no downtime that I can remember and my site was always pretty responsive. A

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