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Html 5 – new size units
There are some new size units with CSS 3, which allows you to resize elements relative to the viewport size. They are vw, vh, vmin (that’s vm in IE), and perhaps vmax. (Viewport width, height, smaller...
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Chrome OS is missing or damaged
My Google Chrome CR-48 started flaking out/rebooting and finally this message. This post solved the problem quite easily. http://cr-48.wikispaces.com/Reseat+SSD+Cable Two hints: 1) you need to pull...
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Calling a web service through a reverse proxy
I had a w/s that when I first read the WSDL in test, was http, but needed to be accessed from behind a reverse proxy with https. Here are the steps: Change the app.config, <httpTransport> to...
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Html 5 clock, part ii - CSS marker classes and getElementsByClassName
The clock I made in part i displays the time in "long" - "It's a quarter to ten" (but in Norwegian). To save space, some letters are shared, "sevenineight" is four letters shorter than "seven nine...
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Quest PowerShell Tools
A couple of free Powershell tools I use a lot are ActiveRoles Management Shell for AD and PowerGUI Script Editor. The management shell I like because it reduced the number of lines I used in my code,...
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The new direction of the gaming industry
Just recently I read a great blog post by David Darling, the founder of Codemasters: http://www.develop-online.net/blog/347/Jurassic-consoles-could-become-extinct. In the blog post he talks about how...
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Good use of the Charms Bar in Windows 8 Metro.
If you’re using Win8 yet, no doubt you’ve run into the charms bar. There’s a feature to extend via Share, links to your application. Details on the HOW are here: Adding share (Metro style apps using...
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Microsoft Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)
For all you admins and other technical people out there who have watched the Windows OS spool the data from network storage to your workstation and then back to network storage, watch for Offloaded...
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Book Review: “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying”...
In the past few weeks, I have been reading “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying” by Itzik Ben-Gan et al. In the next few lines, I will be providing a quick book review having finished...
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Reduce weight in healthy way - Day 2
My second day of reducing weight and it seems most of the blog are correct in saying that you can reduce weight if your calorie consumption is less than what you burn. In one day I have lost 1 lbs...
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VLC Media Player 2.0.2
The latest version of the free VLC media player is available for download at http://www.videolan.org/"VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most...
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Where did I write that code ?
Every been in that situation when you desperately need to find that code you checked into TFS a few days back but just can’t remember what team project, what branch, what solution or what file you...
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Free book from Microsoft on on Office 365
At http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2011/08/17/free-ebook-microsoft-office-365-connect-and-collaborate-virtually-anywhere-anytime.aspx you can get a free book from Microsoft on Office...
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APress deal of the day 5/Jul/2012 - Foundations of SQL Server 2008 R2...
Today's $10 APress Deal of the Day at http://www.apress.com/9781430233244 is Foundations of SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence."Foundations of SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence introduces...
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Service Discovery in WCF 4.0 – Part 1
When designing a service oriented architecture (SOA) system, there will be a lot of services with many service contracts, endpoints and behaviors. Besides the client calling the service, in a large...
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New Look for Geekswithblogs.net Homepage
I wanted to alert everyone to the new look of the Geekswithblogs.net Community Page. I removed the tabs, cleaned up the posts and fonts, replaced the logo with our brighter logo, and mucked with the...
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New Feature! Automatic Categories for Geekswithblogs.net
One of the features we have been working on is a way to categorize posts without the need of all our bloggers getting on the same page with what categories we have and making them select the...
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Code Smells: Regions in C#
#region -- Foo Property -- private Foo Foo { get { if (_foo == null) { _foo = FooManager.Instance.Load(); } return _foo; } } #endregion "Moderation in all things, including moderation." -Petronius Code...
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Why CoffeeScript is tough to maintain
I recently started trying out CoffeeScript only to find out that it caused more headaches. The abstraction level of jQuery was perfect, it did not dictate to coders how to design their code, it just...
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