Writing better code.
Recently I was thinking of writing better code or I should say better object oriented programming,I was reading articles about writing better code ,but this post caught my eye and I thought it would be...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons Why I Like Dating A Programmer
I’ve dated men that fall into various categories, from musicians to jocks to the average “Joe”. But my current beau falls under a new category for me: the self-proclaimed geek. I wasn’t sure if I’d be...
View ArticleLearning to learn!
This is my first post in this new year and was thinking about a topic to write on. Lately I have been working on varied things that flexes the brain muscles and things which I haven't done before. So...
View ArticleMy Office @ AJI Software Headquarters
One of the great things about 2012 is that I am not in our office nearly 100% of the time during business hours. This is the first time I have been able to work from our office this much in about 4...
View ArticleReview - Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo
I’ve been testing\evaluating Component One’s Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo suite for an MVC 3 project and I’m quickly becoming a fan! This product has so many things going for it that I’m not sure where to...
View ArticleBizTalk and 0MQ (ZeroMQ)
It is stupid to compare those two beasts. BizTalk Server is a pricey, huge development and run-time system, it includes tons of the tools, supports tons of protocols and systems. It works for very...
View ArticleOperation is not valid due to the current state of the object.
Issue:System.InvalidOperationExceptionOperation is not valid due to the current state of the object. System.InvalidOperationException: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object. at...
View ArticleMaking Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent
Windows Azure Fieldnote Summary Windows Azure Drives [1] provide a means to represent a file based (disk drive) persistent storage option for the various role types within Windows Azure Compute. Each...
View ArticlePowershell Emailing Strings as attachments
I was working on a project to send a html attachment in a powershell script. I have the HTML string so all I want to do is create an attachment from the string. Here's the code: $SMTPserver =...
View ArticleAvoiding TF237124 when Creating Work Items in New Areas
At my company we write a lot of tools and extensions that uses the TFS API to automate various things for us. A very common thing to automate is the creation of work items and the areas and iterations...
View ArticleRetrieving a Logged On User ID
Here is an easy way to retrieve the user ID from who ever is logged on to a PC using ASP.Net. This is handy for ASP.Net applications where you want to put a "Welcome joe user" label at the top, auto...
View ArticleSharePoint administration tool - ControlPoint
I've been heads down with migration to SharePoint 2010 and I have been using ControlPoint to do a lot of the administering of our various sites. I had worked with this tool before in 2007 and they...
View ArticleHow to disable messages for category based on severity in EnterpriseLibrary...
Microsoft documentation article Source Schema for the Logging Application Block is very hard to follow,the set of articles...
View ArticleO Reilly Deal or the Day - 21/Jan/2012 - Larger Cover Microsoft® Expression...
This weekend's deal of the day from O'Reilley at http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145300119.do is Larger Cover Microsoft® Expression Blend® 4 Step by StepThis is an excellent book that provides just...
View Article6 years down - 3 more to go
The New Horizons spacecraft has now been in transit for 6 years and 3 more years in flight till it it flies past the Pluto system - more details at http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/overview/piPerspective.php
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