Another busy week ends

So, this afternoon was taken up by figuring out how to get an error page working on the application - not that the page itself was difficult, but trying to get the application to fire it back the error message and stack trace back to the client side was tricky. I got it working through using a cookie in the global config file, using the error messages as string values that the cookie held. Then I set a one minute limit before the cookie would expire. On the error page (set in the web.config file) the cookie was picked up, the strings split out of the cookie, and then set into a nicely formatted page.

I realized today that I'm going to have to give a talk to the interns about holding values in the session - it is really useful, although some are having trouble grasping the concept of it. Need to better explain it, I think.

A new competition

The Patent Insider team started a stock buying competition on Virtual Stock Exchange today, to pit our investor instincts against each other, as well as test the application that we're working on. The competition would seem strange to an outsider as most of the action will be on Tuesdays only (when the patents come out) although the selling could happen at any time, depending on what each of us feels is the optimum selling point for a particular stock that we hold.

Useful stock symbol: Biotechnologies Index (AMEX) on Yahoo Financial - ^BTK