Essential Tools to find bugs... before they get to production

Developers now have access to free and inexpensive developer tools that can help find and fix many common application problems. These new APM tools are now an essential part of every developer’s tool set. Show me the tools!

Project Manager? Scrum Master? Can both the roles survive?

Many a times, consulting and IT service providers engage with customers from the stage of order inquiry or a phase called discovery, followed by order handover and then execution (order to cash) to the ...

sql server: How can I list or review the last restores for all the databases on a server?

Go to the server your are interested in gathering the information from, then issue this statement:WITH LastRestoresOnServer AS(SELECT sysdb.[name] as dbName, sysdb.[create_date], sysdb.[compatibility_level], ...

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CMAP–AngularUI Code Samples

Thanks to everyone for attending my presentation on AngularUI at CMAP this week. The code samples and slide deck for my presentation can be found here. Make sure to following the instructions in the readme.md ...

Una pequeña lección sobre las Lecciones aprendidas

"Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo."¿Cuál el el peor proyecto en que has participado? ¿Y cuál el mejor? ¿Te imaginas que pudieras repetirlos? ¿Qué harías diferente?Eso, justamente, son las Lecciones ...

Updating New MVC Project NuGet packages could not load Microsoft.Owin.Security

File new project, MVC (Visual Studio 2013 in April 2014) Update all NuGet packages and I get this: Server Error in '/' Application. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Owin.Security, Version=2.1.0.0, ...

SSRS–adding a pipe delimited text export option in Sharepoint Integrated mode

We are currently looking decommission an old reporting portal based on another technology stack and replace it with SSRS running in Sharepoint integrated mode. However one of the requirements was to support ...

Angular Directive to Show Highlight Style when Model Changed

In my project I'm using SignalR and Angular.js to make the page real-time. But I found a slightly problem. It's a little bit hard to notice user when something changed if there are a lot of fields in the ...

How do I Fix "Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS" and "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS"

You were probably trying to do a comparison between 2 databases with different collation settings on a WHERE clause or on a join. Here's how you would do the comparison with a JOIN: Normal 0 false false ...

Monitoring Flights and Sending SMS with Taskmatics Scheduler and Enzo Unified

Software developers need to build solutions quickly so that businesses remain competitive and agile. This blog post shows you how Taskmatics Scheduler (http://www.taskmatics.com) and Enzo Unified (http://www.enzounified.com) ...

Visual Studio: Could not copy "obj\Debug\Some.dll" to "bin\Debug\Some.dll". Exceeded retry count of 10. Failed.

We stumbled upon a situation where Visual Studio wouldn't let us a build with the following errors:Could not copy "obj\Debug\VsLockLib.dll" to "bin\Debug\VsLockLib.dll". Exceeded retry count of 10. Failed.Unable ...

First bit of FiddlerScript

Never used FiddlerScript, nor had any real use for it today. But now I see some nice possibilities.I just finished installing Win 10 and all my software, when I saw this "feature" occur once I turned Fiddler ...

Accumulative Effects

I’ve been a software developer for about 10 years, 8 years in my current full time job and 2 years off and on in a part-time job during college. Every year we do a yearly review with a reflection form ...

Getting Started with Julia by Ivo Balbaert, Packt Publishing Book Review

An awesome book on an awesome language conceived by brilliant MIT computer scientists! The author clearly a technically savvy, mature professional who understands Julia very well. Besides, the language ...

Aurelia comes to Montreal !

On monday April 13th if you are in the Montreal region you have the opportunity to see the next generation of Web Apps in action with Rob Eisenberg and his new product: Aurelia. This event already has ...

Thank You Bill Gates and Paul Allen

Microsoft turned 40 this week. That’s a huge accomplishment for any company, but considering Microsoft’s growth and its impact on the technology industry its even more impressive. Many articles will talk ...

XML Transformation: Xslt vs .NET. Part 3.

Part 1.Part 2.Part 3. Max Toro commented on the Part 1 and his suggestions changed a lot. So, I have added this Part. It shows, how a small optimization could change the test results. Actually, I have ...

EASTER EGG - My Ubuntu Gnome desktop

Happy Easter! It is time for some unexpected gift! Your desktop it is something unique. You desktop it is something very personal. Today I will try to show you how to make your workplace (workspace) a ...

Pleased to announce

I’ve submitted for review my Bin Collections WatchKit App.    It took a while to get everything correctly code signed, but its done...

XML Transformation: Xslt vs .NET. Part 2

Part 1.Part 2.Part 3. In the first part, I have compared the Xslt transformations of the XML documents with the Object transformations. It happens the Object transformations are faster in most cases. They ...

Guvera Bugs Sucks and my incident with Guvera (Charge me 1447.39 INR and my account still not paid account)

Finding a good Music streaming is really so hard. Today I play guvera and thing to let use it for future. Now See what it happen to me. First I tried to pay it doesn’t work. I tell the support and it telling ...

Horror: Migrating Angular-UI-Router to Angular New Router

Last week after watched videos of ngConf 2015, I decided to have a try on Angular 2.0. And I think the best start point would be its new router. The application I'm going to change is "My DocumentDB", ...

iOS Grid Control

So, after fighting it for a while, I’ve realised that most line of business apps need a grid control. iOS just doesn’t have this out of the box, we have UITableView and UICollectionView but they don’t ...

Using a Raspberry Pi For Lanc

Setup Download the Raspian distribution I used the one dated 2015-02-16, kernel version 3.18. Prepare the distribution $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade Fixup the network interface I have an ...

XML Transformation: Xslt vs .NET. Part 1.

Part 1.Part 2.Part 3. The Xml transformation is an important part of the system integration. The Xml documents are everywhere despite surging JSON. When we need to transform [or map] one Xml document to ...

QR codes in .Net

It took awhile to find the right NuGet package to use to create and decode a QR code, but we found it. The ZXing.Net port of the Java version turned out to be quick and easy to use. Scott Hanselman had ...

Upgrading your Neo4J from XXX to 2.2.0–having authorization trouble?

I’ve recently upgraded one of my Neo4J dbs from 2.1.7 to 2.2.0, and instantly ran into troubles with the new Authentication that the db now has. You’ll notice it when you first login to your browser (http://localhost:7474/) ...

Set up https only in an Azure website

I was just working on an Azure web site that needs to work on https only. I came across this solution that pointed me in the right direction:http://blogs.msdn... ...

ACT Flyin Washington DC - 3/22-24/2015

This past week I visited Washington, DC to take part in the annual ActOnline.org "flyin". Each year this organization of ~ 5000 software companies hosts 50 software and app developers to visit Washington ...

Setup.exe doesn’t appear to run when I double click it.

My company has an internal utility to install applications on your laptop. One was failing and not telling me why. Going to the directory where everything was downloaded and double clicking the Setup.exe ...

Which Keywords Has An ETW Provider Enabled?

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 ...

Syncfusion Essential Studio - Community Licence

Syncfusion have recently followed the Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition and launched a Community Edition of their Essential Studio Enterprise Edition. See http://www.syncfusion.com/p... ...

ProfBugging - How to find leaks with allocation profiling

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 ...

Background and border blinking animation using 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); } ...

Java Annotations Refresher

Annotations (Metadata) embed metadata in source code, for design-time/compile-time/ru... processing Syntax - @<annotation-name>(&l... initializations>) the bedrock of JEE Annotation Definition ...

Final Polishing of Apple Watch App

Its done, my first Apple Watch App. Ready to send to Apple when they allow submissions… ...

Naming Things Is Hard: Using Object Pattern Names

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. ...

DAX Studio 2.1 Released

Today I am pleased to announce the release of the latest update to DAX Studio – v2.1.0 You can get it from the releases page on codeplex: http://daxstudio.codeplex.c... Below is an outline of what’s ...

mssql2008+ : How do I manage transactions in stored procedures?

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 ...

New Features in Bing Developer Assistant March Release

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, ...

Automatically update packages using NuGet

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 ...

Algonquin Takes First at Providence College Regional Programming Contest

Algonquin team won the first place trophy at Providence College.In addition to the trophy, Providence College has granted a $5,000 scholarship to each member of the first-place team (should they decide ...

Meeting Fun

Today in a meeting the leader was sharing a OneNote file to take notes via a remote meeting screen share. As he was formulating how the meeting should go (writing down questions for the group), I asked ...

Incremental Find in Visual Studio with Crtl-I …who knew?!

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 ...

Scalable Service Architecture

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 ...

Copy Files From You Local Computer To An Azure VM and Back

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 ...

Syncfusion Community Edition

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 ...

WebAPI Exception Logging

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 ...

Binding Multiple Selection in RadListBox

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 ...

The Docker Container Command Line Interface

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 ...