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Choosing A Windows Based Web Hosting Service
Recently I have gone through the process of selecting a web hosting company for one of my clients. There are a lot of options out there and a number things you need to be cautious about. I will go...
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Code without regret?
Last year I had the pleasure of attending one of Markus Egger’s sessions at Houston Techfest. Markus is the President and CSA of EPS Software, creators of CODE magazine and a company that I have a...
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The perils of being infected by DNSChanger
At http://www.itpro.co.uk/638995/will-the-fbi-close-down-your-online-business-this-march/2, Davey Winder of ITPro has published a very disturbing article on the problems of being infected by...
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Oh no! My padding's invalid!
Recently, I've been doing some work involving cryptography, and encountered the standard .NET CryptographicException: 'Padding is invalid and cannot be removed.' Searching on StackOverflow produces 57...
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Startup Weekend in Boston - Peoples Choice Award
This weekend I was in Boston participating in Startup Weekend. There were over 150 people participating this weekend. This was my first startup weekend and their were over 70 ideas pitched on friday...
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Super-Jumbo Aircraft for Launching Spacecraft
When the Space Shuttle was developed so many years ago, it was just the first step in developing a re-usable launch system. Regrettably this further development never took place, however plans are now...
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Setting SharePoint regional time zone settings
Recently I had a user come up and state that when they would make a new announcement the time would be off by 2 hours. They said they had checked the servers and time settings were fine and could...
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Custom MediaType Formatters in MVC 4 Web Api Error: 'Headers.ContentType'...
After upgrading to the MVC 4 Web Api a problem came up where the custom MediaTypeFormatters we were using were no longer functioning.You must now override, CanWriteType and CanReadType in your customer...
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Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide
I’ve just published a web-browsalbe version of “Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide”. “The Developers Guide to AppFabric” has been re-branded, and has a new title of “Windows Azure Service Bus...
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Leap Ahead With Free Pluralsight Training on Leap Day
Pluralsight are celebrating Leap Day by offering free access to their course library"For 24 hours, starting Wednesday February 29, at 12:00AM EST ( 05:00 UTC) the Pluralsight library will be wide open....
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Save 50% on Data-related Ebooks and Videos to March 2nd
At http://oreilly.com/data/index.html, O'Reilly are offering 50% on a large number of E-Books and Videos.The list also includes a number of free reports:Data for the Public Good -...
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The Hidden Costs Of Offshoring Your IT
While I am not a fan of offshoring IT development, I do understand the attraction. From a rate perspective they look very attractive, but in my experience that is the smallest part of the story when...
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Thoughts on Optimization and a first look at RedGate's ANTs Performance...
In this blog post I intend to capture some thoughts on code optimization in general and on how the new version of RedGate's ANTs Performance Profiler can be used to "optimize optimization". As...
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What I Pack In My Travel Backpack
Disclaimer:, The views and opinions expressed in this post are solely my own and I’m not getting paid or compensated for anything. A number of friends having been posting about what they pack...
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Religions, Casts and now Technology
This blog post is not to hurt any one, just a thought that I got in my mind when I was walking from an Apple Store to a Microsoft Store. I am not judging any one here but if you are from the DC area...
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The solar system to scale (well almost) - Long!
I have just found an interesting diagram on Space.com showing the scale of the solar and where the various space probes have reached. Source SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and...
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How to get a Product() (multiplication result) rather than a SUM() (addition...
Get a summary aggregation of rows in T-Sql is easy thanks to the Sum operator: Select Sum(Qty) From Table Why is there no Product() aggregation operation for T-Sql? Sometimes I want the values...
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Entity Framework 4.1 Code First- Use MSSQLSERVER instead of EXPRESS
This is my first blog post and will be short and concise. I will get back to formatting later.Been playing around with MVC, Scaffolding and Razor a couple of weeks now on my spare time. Think I should...
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SQL Server... help!
I have two Great Plains databases, let's call them DB1A and DB1B, that are schematically identical and the data is 99% identical but DB1B has a tiny bit more data. I'm trying to optimize a very complex...
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Why the Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 BizTalk Adapter doesn’t work on...
Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 has a 32-bit BizTalk Adapter that is not compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows or BizTalk. Under Windows Server 2003, the AX 4.0 Adapter would not even install on the...
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