Get Certified on MCSE Private Cloud with this FREE Step-by-Step Study Guide!...
This month, I spent a fair amount of time preparing for the new Microsoft Private Cloud Certification Exam 70-246, Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 and I saved links to...
View ArticleAPress Deal of the day - 23/Jul/2012 - Web Standards
Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress is Web Standards Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML"Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML is a comprehensive guide to current and future standards for the...
View ArticleHow to Disable button after Click
Here the requirement is we want to disable the button after the Click. the solution is we can use JQuery: <script type = "text/javascript"> function DisableButton() {...
View ArticleScooby Doo Mystery LINQ
In recent training with another staff member, we found LINQ code that worked well in LINQPad but failed in VisualStudio 2010. Not a syntax failure but in that the query would return no value.The...
View ArticleReading QR Codes In Your Windows Phone App
I have recently been working on an application for a client that needs to read QR codes. This has lead to some interesting findings. There are a couple of approaches you can use. One is to take a...
View ArticleBook Review: “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL...
In this the next few lines, I will be providing a review of the last of Itzik Ben-Gan et al’s “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008” series. This last book continues the trend of the in-depth focused...
View ArticleError occurred in deployment step Add Solution: Value does not fall within...
A SharePoint 2010 solution I was working on contained several different types projects (MasterPage, ContentTypes, EventReceivers). At one point, I started getting this error: “Error occurred in...
View ArticlePlug and Play Database Continuous Integration with TeamCity
In a previous blog I describe in twenty one easy steps how to set up continuous integration using a combination of TeamCity and Red Gate tools. Okay, it’s easy only in a relative sense, giving that...
View ArticleJQuery Add New Item to SPList
<div> <p> Task Title: <input id="Text1" type="text" /> <input id="Button1" type="button" value="Create Task" /> </p> </div><script...
View ArticleSoftware Project Failure, Root Causes and Anti-Patterns
Five sixths of all software projects are not completed in the stipulated time and within budget, of these over one third get cancelled all together. What is surprising is how little documentation there...
View ArticleO'Reilly deal of the day 24/July/2012 - Selected Sharepoint books
At http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/sharepoint-techcon-boston-celebration.do?code=CFSPBN, there are a selection of SharePoint points at 50% off until 25/July/2012 at 23:59 PTThere are wide...
View ArticleConfirming communication with an XBee radio and FEZ Cerbuino Bee
So I’ve decided to expand my horizons further into the world of Microcontrollers. As a .NET engineer with little hardware experience I found that the learning curve to enter the hardware world has...
View ArticleDebugging Passkit Install on iOS Simulator
Top tip, this just saved my life in OSX Terminal run - tail -f /var/log/system.log This let me debug what was going on with a faulty Passbook pass (well faulty since iOS 6 beta 3)
View ArticlePart 1–PassBook Server
So before we talked about the potential of building a server to issue and maintain Passbook passes. The design goal to being able to issue boarding passes, concert tickets, etc. to iOS devices. The...
View ArticleWorkplace Bullying 101: The Lynching
I read an article tonight that hit extremely close to home, discussing workplace bullying and its impact on a company. As someone who has been on the receiving end of workplace bullying a multitude...
View ArticleAPress Deal of the Day - 25/Jul/2012 - Pro Silverlight 4 in C#
Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430229797 is Pro Silverlight 4 in C#"Full-color graphics and screenshots throughout make Pro Silverlight 4 in C# an invaluable...
View ArticleResponsive multi-level menu - Take 2
The conversion of a menu into a select box for mobile use works well, but is perhaps not intuitive for mobile users.This second example uses the same basic method of a single menu on the page but this...
View Articleborder-left,border-right etc doesn't work in IE7 .(Solution) - CSS
I was doing some design stuff today and i had issue with browser compatibility.When i use e.g border-top:1px solid #aaa;It works in FireFox and IE8 and above but couldn't get it to work with IE7.It...
View ArticleA Heads-Up: response.js has been updated and now works with 'ems'
The popular and excellent 'respond.js' shim by Scott Jehl that allows older versions of IE to work with CSS3 Media Queries now, version 1.2.0, works with breakpoints specified in 'ems' as well as...
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