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Become a React Developer in a Weekend

Jeremy Morgan, February 8, 2020 react javascript

This was article originally posted on my Programming Blog.If you want to be a React Developer, there’s a lot to learn. You can get started in a weekend. Yes, in a single weekend, you can learn React and start developing some cool applications!Here’s how I would approach it.Friday NightOk, instead of binge-watching some TV show Friday night (no judgment, I’ve been there), you could spend the time learning the basics of React. If you’ve never touched React or done anything with it, The Big Picture is the place to start.If you have played around with it, done some tutorials, etc, skip to the Getting ...

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Aspose.Words “unreadable content”

Ken Hortsch, February 7, 2020

Problem: Trying to open an Aspose produced .docx gives an “unreadable content” error. The file will still ...

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Aspose.Words “unreadable content”

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Disabling Secure Boot on a Hyper-V guest

John Breakwell, February 3, 2020 Hyper-V Linux

To test out the MAP Toolkit, I wanted to have some Linux machines for it to detect. I created a virtual ...

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Setting DNS server addresses with Control Panel and Powershell ...

John Breakwell, February 2, 2020

In my test environment, which isn't optimally configured, new installations can't find the domain as ...

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What's the big deal with POP!_OS???

Jeremy Morgan, February 1, 2020 Programming Linux

This was article originally posted on my Linux Blog.A new Linux distribution has been popping up in discussion ...

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

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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!

WebAPI AttributeRouting Gotcha!

ChrisD, July 2, 2014

I’m a big fan of the attribute routing in webapi 2. Its much more descriptive than using an abstracted routing table defined in my webapi config startup. Recently I had an issue where my controller endpoints ...

WebAPI AttributeRouting Gotcha!

The case of the vanishing KPIs

Darren Gosbell, July 3, 2014 Analysis Services PowerPivot

I was contacted today with an interesting issue, we had a tabular model that had some KPIs which were not showing up in Power View. The first thing I checked was the version setting on the model. KPI support ...

The case of the vanishing KPIs

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O’Reilly 50% off deal on Bleeding Edge Press E-Books to 05:00 PT 9/July/2014

TATWORTH, July 2, 2014

To celebrate the addition of Bleeding Edge Press books to shop.oreilly.com, O’Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... are offering 50% off their e-books ...

O’Reilly 50% off deal on Bleeding Edge Press E-Books to 05:00 PT 9/July/2014

New Horizons now only 3 AU from Pluto

TATWORTH, July 2, 2014

As of 05:00 UTC today, July 2 2014, the New Horizons space probe was only 3 A.U. from Pluto. (An AU or Astronomical unit is the average distance of the Earth from the Sun.) New Horizons looks as if it ...

New Horizons now only 3 AU from Pluto

Xamarin FTW! - my first steps on the mobile development road

Thorvald Bøe, July 1, 2014 xamarin mobile

So, as any good dev geek, I can't help but play with geeky fun stuff at night. And as a creative person, I constantly get ideas for new apps or web sites that would rock the world if I just got around ...

Xamarin FTW! - my first steps on the mobile development road

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PCI Latency Timer

Werner Willemsens, July 1, 2014 Windows CE Windows Embedded Compact Microsoft NDIS TCP/IP

In my previous blog I mentioned I was involved in searching for Windows socket data that got corrupted upon reception in a Windows CE 6 executable. The short explanation is that the Realtek 100MBit (RTL8139, ...

PCI Latency Timer

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Werner Willemsens, July 1, 2014 Windows CE Windows Embedded Compact Microsoft NDIS TCP/IP

Recently I was involved in searching for Windows socket data that got corrupted upon reception in a Windows CE 6 executable. The data was transmitted from a Windows 7 desktop PC. At first it was not clear ...

NDIS Packet Capturing DLL

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Re-awarded Microsoft MVP for 2014. 6 years in a row! Wooot!

Vincent Maverick Durano, July 2, 2014 ASP.NET Community

I got this mail today from Microsoft: “Dear Vincent Maverick Durano,Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2014 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community ...

Re-awarded Microsoft MVP for 2014. 6 years in a row! Wooot!

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O’Reilly Half-price Deal of the Day 1/July/2014 - Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET

TATWORTH, July 1, 2014

Today’s half-price Deal of the Day from O’Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET. “Design and build Web APIs for a broad range ...

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APress Deal of the Day 1/July/2014 - Pro JavaScript Performance

TATWORTH, July 1, 2014

Today’s $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro JavaScript Performance. “Performance is a hugely important area of web development. If your site runs slowly, users ...

APress Deal of the Day 1/July/2014 - Pro JavaScript Performance

Fun With Process/Thread and IO Priorities

Alois Kraus, June 30, 2014

When you want to schedule some not so important work you can have the option to lower the thread priority of a thread or you can change the base priority of the whole process. That can help to keep Windows ...

Fun With Process/Thread and IO Priorities

Seriously, Screw CASL

D'Arcy Lussier, June 30, 2014

Legislation will go into effect July 1st restricting who businesses can contact via email, or direct messaging on social media sites, to only those that “opt in”. I’m sure the politicians think this is ...

Seriously, Screw CASL

Sql Server: Orphaned user name; Can't login, User name disappeared from my database

Paula DiTallo, June 30, 2014 Practical Answers SQL

This usually happens when you restore a database. For example, you restore a copy of production database X to your QA server. In essence, you have overwritten the user info of that specific database with ...

Sql Server: Orphaned user name; Can't login, User name disappeared from my database

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IDisposable Best Practices for C# Developers

Elton Stoneman, June 30, 2014 Pluralsight C#

My latest Pluralsight course has been released! It’s called: IDisposable Best Practices for C# Developers It covers what you need to know about IDisposable, and why you need to know about it. IDisposable ...

IDisposable Best Practices for C# Developers

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Let’s Celebrate Packt Publishing’s 10 th Anniversary with $10 per Book or Video!

Compudicted, June 30, 2014

I like to hear good news, and I was especially happy to find out Packt Publishing has reached a very significant milestone: 10 years in business! For us, humans, 10 years signifies the beginning of the ...

Let’s Celebrate Packt Publishing’s 10 th Anniversary with $10 per Book or Video!

Setting up user profile service in SharePoint 2013

Thorvald Bøe, June 30, 2014 sharepoint active directory

Setting up active directory integration in SharePoint 2013 can be extremely simple. If you only need to import users, and not write back changes to AD, the User Profile (UP) service is a good alternative ...

Setting up user profile service in SharePoint 2013

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O’Reilly 50% off Deal of the Day 30/June/2014

TATWORTH, June 30, 2014

To celebrate the end of June, O’Reilly are offering 50% off a number of bestselling books at http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... including the following: RESTful Web ...

O’Reilly 50% off Deal of the Day 30/June/2014

O’Reilly Microsoft E-Book Deal of the Day 30/June/2014 - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Marketing Automation

TATWORTH, June 30, 2014

Today’s half-price E-Book Deal of the Day from O’Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Marketing Automation. “This practical guide offers ...

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Calibre 1.42.0 EBook Management now available

TATWORTH, June 30, 2014

Version 1.42.0 of the excellent Calibre EBook management is now available at http://calibre-ebook.com/do... for 64 bit users. “calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application ...

Calibre 1.42.0 EBook Management now available

APress Deal of the Day 30/June/2014 - HTML5 Programming for ASP.NET Developers

TATWORTH, June 30, 2014

Today’s $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is HTML5 Programming for ASP.NET Developers. “HTML5 Programming for ASP.NET Developers teaches you to harness the power and ...

APress Deal of the Day 30/June/2014 - HTML5 Programming for ASP.NET Developers

Setting a WPF Image programmatically

T, June 30, 2014 WPF

Here is one way to mapping images using code behind in WPF so.ImgMap.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri(String.Format("../{0}/{... In this example, Images must have ...

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SharePoint user group Session at Microsoft Bangladesh

MJ Ferdous, June 29, 2014

Microsoft Bangladesh hosted a SharePoint user group Session at Microsoft Bangladesh Office today (Monday, June 23) for our local SharePoint community SharePoint Experts and Tech Forum. SharePoint Experts ...

SharePoint user group Session at Microsoft Bangladesh

Useful VS Key shortcut – next build error

Aligned, June 27, 2014 Productivity

This is a quick post to share that ctrl+shift+12 will go to the next build error in Visual Studio (2013 for sure). It’s been useful for me when refactoring and making a mess to clean up… hopefully that ...

Useful VS Key shortcut – next build error

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Using CMS for App Configuration - Part 3, Consume Your Config

Elton Stoneman, June 27, 2014 Umbraco APIs

After Part 1 and Part 2, we now have an app config server with a nice UI and a publishing workflow for changes. In our app, we can get the current config settings with an HTTP client reading from the URL ...

Using CMS for App Configuration - Part 3, Consume Your Config

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APress Deal of the Day 27/June/2014 - C++ Quick Syntax Reference

TATWORTH, June 27, 2014

Today’s $10 Deal of the Day from APress at is Quick Syntax Reference; “The C++ Quick Syntax Reference is a condensed code and syntax reference to the C++ programming language. It presents the essential ...

APress Deal of the Day 27/June/2014 - C++ Quick Syntax Reference

SQL Server: Restoring a backup generates this error: Operating system error 5(Access is denied.).

Paula DiTallo, June 26, 2014 Practical Answers SQL

There are several reasons for this. The most common reason is that the account you are using while logged into mssql through ssms does not have access to the drive definition you are using as your source. ...

SQL Server: Restoring a backup generates this error: Operating system error 5(Access is denied.).

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O’Reilly Half-Price Microsoft E-Book Deal of the Day 26/June/2014 - Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook

TATWORTH, June 26, 2014

Today’s half-price Microsoft E-Book Deal of the Day at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook. “Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming ...

O’Reilly Half-Price Microsoft E-Book Deal of the Day 26/June/2014 - Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook

Useful git instructions / commands

sathya, June 26, 2014 git

Concept of git In a git project, there will be two branches for each branch that you have :one is local branch and other is remote branchyou always commit to your local branch and when you push the changes ...

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Combining jquery form serialize() and JSON.stringify() when doing ajax post in MVC

Rohit Gupta, June 25, 2014

Most of the times we end up using either $(‘#myform’).serialize() along with default contentType in ajax POST request, OR we use the JSON representation of the form using jquery helper methods, then call ...

Combining jquery form serialize() and JSON.stringify() when doing ajax post in MVC

Get the Last Build By Build Number with Visual Studio ALM Team Foundation Server API

Bob Hardister, June 25, 2014

Here is a handy TFS 2013 build activity for getting the last build by build number filter. In this case: We get the 4th version node number: we call it the revision number We use semantic versioning and ...

Get the Last Build By Build Number with Visual Studio ALM Team Foundation Server API

O’Reilly Microsoft E-Book Deal of the Day 25/June/2014 - Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1: in C# and VB

TATWORTH, June 25, 2014

Today’s half-price Microsoft E-Book of the day at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1: in C# and VB. “In this comprehensive guide to getting started ...

O’Reilly Microsoft E-Book Deal of the Day 25/June/2014 - Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1: in C# and VB

WES: Changing Power Settings from the Command Line

Bruce Eitman, June 24, 2014 Windows Embedded Standard (WES)

I am working on a kiosk type system right now – really, it is a kiosk. So we want the user to feel like the system is running all of the time, and the power settings to turn off the display hinder that. ...

WES: Changing Power Settings from the Command Line

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Tournr

Chris Skardon, June 24, 2014 Tournr

A little while ago (2 months and 12 days to be precise) I launched my project I’ve been making for a while now: Tournr. I have the usual Facebook page (please like!), twitter account and even a blog for ...

Tournr

WES: Disabling the Taskbar

Bruce Eitman, June 24, 2014 Windows Embedded Standard (WES)

There has been plenty written about replacing the Explorer Shell to disable the taskbar, but what if you want the Explorer Shell, but don’t want the taskbar? This article will show how to disable the taskbar ...

WES: Disabling the Taskbar

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WES: Use Command Line to Disable a Service

Bruce Eitman, June 24, 2014 Windows Embedded Standard (WES)

I have been working with a customer who needs to be able to disable services in WES 7. They want to do this after using IBW to install WES. So, how can we manage services from the command line? The answer ...

WES: Use Command Line to Disable a Service

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Heartbleed is still a problem!

TATWORTH, June 24, 2014

As reported by ITPRO, the Heartbleed bug is still a risk. What is appalling is that the rate of fixing Web Servers has dropped drastically. The Heartbleed risk must be fixed. See http://www.itpro.co.uk/secu... ...

Heartbleed is still a problem!

O’Reilly 50% off all Web Ops and Performance titles to 05:00 PT 28th June 2014

TATWORTH, June 24, 2014

Until 05:00 PT 28th June 2014, O’Reilly are offering 50% off all Web Ops and Performance titles at http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... ...

O’Reilly 50% off all Web Ops and Performance titles to 05:00 PT 28th June 2014

O’Reilly Half-Price Offer of the Day 24/June/2014 - Programming Entity Framework: DbContext

TATWORTH, June 24, 2014

Today’s half-price Microsoft E-book offer from O’Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Programming Entity Framework: DbContext. “The DbContext API captures Entity Framework’s ...

O’Reilly Half-Price Offer of the Day 24/June/2014 - Programming Entity Framework: DbContext

What If Voyager 1 Had Explored Pluto?

TATWORTH, June 24, 2014

Alan Stern, the Principal Investigator for the New Horizons space probe, has raised a very good question – what if after targeting Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 had been targeted at Pluto? Read the full ...

What If Voyager 1 Had Explored Pluto?

Flask Web Development - Developing Web Applications with Python by Miguel Grinberg, O’Reilly Media Book Review

Compudicted, June 23, 2014

I remember Miguel at one of the O’Reilly educational webcasts greeting the audience in three or four languages. Energetic, full of wisdom, creativity and warmth. How happy I was when I saw his forthcoming ...

Flask Web Development - Developing Web Applications with Python by Miguel Grinberg, O’Reilly Media Book Review

APIC for x86 BSP (how to build it for WCE8)

Werner Willemsens, June 23, 2014 Windows CE Windows Embedded Compact Embedded RTOS Microsoft APIC ACPI ACPICA BSP Visual Studio 2013

As promised I will talk about how to replace the “old” PIC (Peripheral Interrupt Controller) with the “new” APIC (Advanced Peripheral Interrupt Controller) in a CEPC (x86) BSP. I will refer to the “MyBSP” ...

APIC for x86 BSP (how to build it for WCE8)

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Discover the Management API in Microsoft Azure

Herve Roggero, June 23, 2014

Microsoft recently published a Management API framework within Microsoft Azure. If you haven’t had a chance to review this new feature, still in preview at the time of this writing, you may be surprised… ...

Discover the Management API in Microsoft Azure

Downloading file using ajax and jquery after submitting form data using ajax HTTP POST in MVC

Rohit Gupta, June 23, 2014

Many a times we find a need to download a file on doing a AJAX POST request. Normally we would just use the Response.Write to write the fileStream to the MVC Output response, as follows: 1 [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)] ...

Downloading file using ajax and jquery after submitting form data using ajax HTTP POST in MVC

VS2013 Quirk–Dealing with “We have lots of great content to show you, but we need your permission to get it and keep it updated”

TATWORTH, June 23, 2014

The message “We have lots of great content to show you, but we need your permission to get it and keep it updated” appears with a new installation of Visual Studio 2013. To give permission, do the following: ...