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Which Keywords Has An ETW Provider Enabled? Alois Kraus, March 25, 2015 Todays little program has a simple task. It should decode a hex bitmask into its original bits as hex values from which it was composed from. As bonus we can also parse an ETW manifest and print the corresponding ... Which Keywords Has An ETW Provider Enabled? 0 0 3
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ProfBugging - How to find leaks with allocation profiling Alois Kraus, March 22, 2015 Since ETW know how is still considered an arcane science by most people I have the chance to look at a lot of "easy" things which did affect performance a lot but they went bye unnoticed until I did look ... ProfBugging - How to find leaks with allocation profiling 0 0 1
Background and border blinking animation using CSS3 Renso, March 20, 2015 CSS3 Goal is to make a box, input, etc, anything that has a border to blink with using css3, no JavaScript with infinite loops!<style> @-webkit-keyframes blink { 0% { background: rgba(255,0,0,0.5); } ... Background and border blinking animation using CSS3 0 0 2 CSS3
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Naming Things Is Hard: Using Object Pattern Names Steve Wilkes, March 18, 2015 C# Domain Driven Design (DDD) Patterns Programming Practices Patterns C# Domain Driven Design (DDD) Programming Practices Design Patterns - tried-and-true solutions to common problems - have now been around long enough that many of them have very familiar names. We can use those names as part of an object-naming strategy. ... Naming Things Is Hard: Using Object Pattern Names 0 0 2 C# Domain Driven Design (DDD) Patterns Programming Practices Patterns C# Domain Driven Design (DDD) Programming Practices
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mssql2008+ : How do I manage transactions in stored procedures? Paula DiTallo, March 16, 2015 Practical Answers SQL This pattern works well:USE [yourDatabase] GO IF OBJECT_ID('ThisSproc', 'P') IS NOT NULL DROP PROCEDURE ThisSproc; GO CREATE PROCEDURE ThisSproc @PersonId INT, @NewMoneyCollected MONEY = 0 AS BEGIN BEGIN ... mssql2008+ : How do I manage transactions in stored procedures? 0 0 0 Practical Answers SQL
New Features in Bing Developer Assistant March Release Jialiang, March 17, 2015 In the March release of Bing Developer Assistant, we added the following new features: 1. Pin the Intellisense Window. By clicking the new ‘Pin’ button, you can pin the API help info in Visual Studio, ... New Features in Bing Developer Assistant March Release 0 0 1
Automatically update packages using NuGet Aligned, March 16, 2015 Build Tools NuGet doesn't do automatic updating on it's own. If you wanted to do automatic updating with NuGet, which I wouldn't recommend it against public packages (EF, MVC, etc), you’ve probably found it’s not ... Automatically update packages using NuGet 0 0 0 Build Tools
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Incremental Find in Visual Studio with Crtl-I …who knew?! bconlon, March 13, 2015 Visual Studio My Dad always told me ‘You should learn something new every day’, and today I managed it with my newly found ability to perform an incremental search within Visual Studio using the Ctrl-I key stroke. For ... Incremental Find in Visual Studio with Crtl-I …who knew?! 0 0 2 Visual Studio
Scalable Service Architecture JoshReuben, March 13, 2015 Cloud Overview A scalable cloud based architecture has converged upon a common design meta-pattern leveraging the following components, which are explained below: A Forward-Cache Proxy An elastic service Load ... Scalable Service Architecture 0 0 1 Cloud
Copy Files From You Local Computer To An Azure VM and Back Herve Roggero, March 10, 2015 Azure Do you need to copy files from your local workstation to Azure Virtual Machines? No need to use FTP, or send files on cloud drives or blobs. The only thing you need to do is to access your local drives ... Copy Files From You Local Computer To An Azure VM and Back 0 0 0 Azure
Syncfusion Community Edition Aligned, March 10, 2015 Tools On the back of the latest MSDN magazine (March 2015) : There was a link to Syncfusion's community license for its controls. This free license that can be used to "build commercial applications", has a ... Syncfusion Community Edition 0 0 0 Tools
WebAPI Exception Logging AngelEyes, March 10, 2015 Just found out - very easily - a simple way to add logging (via log4net) to my .Net Web API. Thanks to a "code friendly" post.The whole article is full of useful information, though in this instance I ... WebAPI Exception Logging 0 0 1
Binding Multiple Selection in RadListBox Anthony Trudeau, March 9, 2015 .NET Telerik Telerik quietly added a feature to their WPF RadListBox in their 1Q 2015 update that is coincidentally a feature I needed in a current project. The feature is the ability to bind the selected items in ... Binding Multiple Selection in RadListBox 0 0 0 .NET Telerik
The Docker Container Command Line Interface JoshReuben, March 9, 2015 Linux IMHO, docker lightweight virtualization is an incredible game-changer. It totally sweeps the “DevOps” board and along with etcd and Kubernetes pods, supports complex application chain orchestrations through ... The Docker Container Command Line Interface 0 0 1 Linux
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ClipX – an indispensable tool Aligned, March 3, 2015 Productivity Tools I found ClipX a few years ago and have used it every day since. The ability to have a searchable history of copied text and images from a hot key (I use ctrl+shift+z) has been invaluable. It’s saved me ... ClipX – an indispensable tool 0 0 0 Productivity Tools
Migrating SSRS Reports and Schedules jtimperley, March 2, 2015 SQL Server SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS If you’re like me, you’ve found yourself in need of a quick and easy way to migrate between SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) servers. You want it configured identically and don’t want to do it manually. ... Migrating SSRS Reports and Schedules 0 0 1 SQL Server SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS
SharePoint hack - how to restore web part forms in SharePoint Online (SP 2013) Thorvald Bøe, March 2, 2015 sharepoint online form web part I was working in SharePoint designer, trying to customize the edit form. I had two objectives:-To customize the form by rearranging the order of the controls and adding some headings etc.-To add a related ... SharePoint hack - how to restore web part forms in SharePoint Online (SP 2013) 0 0 1 sharepoint online form web part
Python OOP JoshReuben, March 1, 2015 Back in the day, I did a fair bit of work with BioPython – I thought it was time to revisit this glue language ! Classes Python allows for the definition of classes. The builtin __init__ function serves ... Python OOP 0 0 1
Java Collections Refresher JoshReuben, March 1, 2015 Java Jumping around between programming languages, its very easy to forget what is what.Here's my short summary of Java Collections (obviously you can go a step further with Guava !) Collections Overview In ... Java Collections Refresher 0 0 1 Java
APPSENCE – Unattended installation of AppSense Desktop Now Waclaw Chrabaszcz, March 1, 2015 AppSense ActiveDirectory XenApp XenDesktop What is AppSense? Espacially what is AppSense for me? I can call myself a GPO fundamentalist. And in my opinion I can reach everything using Group Polices. However the role of the engineer it to know, ... APPSENCE – Unattended installation of AppSense Desktop Now 0 0 4 AppSense ActiveDirectory XenApp XenDesktop
Getting Started with Ubuntu Elton Stoneman, February 27, 2015 Pluralsight Linux Have you heard? Microsoft hearts Linux. And with good reason: Linux is the home of fast-paced innovation and collaboration. If you're comfortable with Linux then you can step right into new technologies ... Getting Started with Ubuntu 0 0 1 Pluralsight Linux
Serializers in .NET Leonid Ganeline, February 26, 2015 Code Serializer This post is obsolete and kept only for sentimental reasons :)Please go to the v.2 of this article.The project code is on GitHub. Any distributed system requires serializing to transfer data through the ... Serializers in .NET 0 0 2 Code Serializer
Azure Training Courses in Stockholm, Sweden Alan Smith, February 26, 2015 I’ve been developing delivering training courses in the Azure technologies and services since 2010. During that time we have seen Azure evolve rapidly, with the addition new services and continued evolution ... Azure Training Courses in Stockholm, Sweden 0 0 0
Moving to a New Blog - www.NikitaP.com Nikita Polyakov, February 24, 2015 Moving to a New Blog - www.NikitaP.com 0 0 0
Thought of the day Aligned, February 23, 2015 Pragmatic Programming Selenium “There are consistencies in what we see as inconsistent”. I said this out loud today. We have an automated UI test build where all passed 2 times in a row, now without any code changes 2 have failed, with ... Thought of the day 0 0 0 Pragmatic Programming Selenium
Getting Started with OpenCV JoshReuben, February 23, 2015 Graphics Programming Artificial Intelligence C++ Overview OpenCV is a Computer Vision / Image Processing library. It used in ffmpeg video processing / streaming and ROS robot operating system. you can install it from here: http://opencv.org/downloads... ... Getting Started with OpenCV 0 0 1 Graphics Programming Artificial Intelligence C++
Introducing Module Browser – A World of Reusable PowerShell Modules at your Fingertips Jialiang, February 23, 2015 High quality reusable modules, like LEGO pieces, enable IT Pros to build automation solutions in minutes! Where can I find those high quality reusable modules? One way is to use PowerShellGet, a set of ... Introducing Module Browser – A World of Reusable PowerShell Modules at your Fingertips 0 0 0
R High Performance Programming by Aloysius Lim, William Tjhi, Packt Publishing Book Review Compudicted, February 22, 2015 books R R High Performance Programming is probably a unique book in terms of the material covered, I just have not see yet to date a book that is dedicated to increasing the computational capacity of the R language. ... R High Performance Programming by Aloysius Lim, William Tjhi, Packt Publishing Book Review 0 0 0 books R