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My Startup Weekend Winnipeg Experience!
I finally have some time to blog about my experience two weekends ago at the Winnipeg Startup Weekend event. The idea of Startup Weekend is simple: bring together bright people who are...
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Renaming columns - and location them in stored procedures
I had to rename in a column in my database - let's call it Customer.CellPhone. Now 'CellPhone' needs to be 'Mobile'. Not to hard using the build-in SP:use WebShopEXEC sp_rename 'Customer.CellPhone',...
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Upgrading Win8 RP to RTM on OS X with VMware Fusion
Quick pro-tip.Say you have Win8 RP in a VHD. You want to create a replacement VM for RTM. Once you delete the VHD with RP (or more likely move it).If you do this, allocate all of the space in the new...
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The potential problem with Windows 8 apps.
The last decade can be characterized as the decade of the web. Like it or loathe it, the web is an important part in the lives of everyone working in IT. To me, this is a good thing. The web has...
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O'Reilly deal of the day 21/Aug/2012 - Get Concurrent with C#
Today's deal of the day from O'Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/csharp-dotd.do?code=deal is Get Concurrent with C# (5.0!) "Stop struggling with threads, locks, and synchronization...
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Campwood Source Monitor
Campwood provide an excellent free tool for checking code for issues such as cyclomatic complexity.You can download Source Monitor from http://www.campwoodsw.com/sourcemonitor.html. I have found it...
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Breaking the silence
Things have been pretty quiet on this blog for the last couple of months because I have been immersed in learning and writing about developing applications for Windows 8 using C# and XAML. I have been...
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DataObjects.Net releases a community version and some goodies
I have been following the events at X-tensive.com and excited by the release of DataObjects.Net community license and new features in version 4.5.4. I have always had a sweet spot on DataObjects.Net,...
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Nuget Errors and Microsoft not a trusted publisher?
I was having all kinds of problems with a new machine after installing VS 2012 RTM. First the Nuget Package Manager Console started spewing out this error: “ The following error occurred while loading...
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Windows 8–Getting started with ListView binding
Most of the tutorials and quickstart articles on binding data to a list on the interweb at the moment, shows how to bind the data from a static array of data. I assume that this does have some actual...
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Azure Florida Association Meeting: Metro Applications and the Cloud
Meeting #5: Metro Applications and the Cloud, with Paul Beaton, on September 18th 2012 at 7PM US Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5). Please join us on Tuesday September 18th at 7PM ET to hear Paul teach us...
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Blue Syntax to present at The Future of Healthcare Forum
If you are in South Florida on September 5th 2012, do not miss The Future of Healthcare Forum, organized by AAJ Technologies (http://www.aajtech.com) and Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com). I will...
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APress Deal of the Day - 22/Aug/2012 - Beginning Kinect Programming with the...
Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430241041 is Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK "Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK...
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Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials Release Candidate Announced #ITPro...
Windows Server 2012 Essentials, which will ultimately replace the existing Small Business Server (SBS) and Home Server products, has reached the Release Candidate milestone! Essentials provides a...
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New Horizons reaches 24 tonight!
The New Horizons space probe to Pluto and beyond will tonight reach 24 Au from the Sun. This is 24 times the average distance of the Earth from the Sun. The probe is now so far out that a radio signal...
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Microsoft Press Deal of the Day - 22/Aug/2012 - Programming Windows®, 6th...
Today's deal of the day from Microsoft Press at http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145369079.do is Programming Windows®, 6th Edition "Reimagined for full-screen and touch-optimized apps, Windows 8...
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Search For Object in The DB
So this is my first blog post and I will keep things short and simple. Actually I will apply this to all my posts; short, simple, and concise.Ever wanted to search your database for a piece of text? It...
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Chicago IT Architects Group August Summary
We’re back! Last night we had our first meeting in several months. Carl Franklin presented on Google Platform As A Service: AppEngine. As I spend most of my time in the Microsoft arena it was...
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Property overwrite behaviour
I thought it worth sharing about property overwrite behaviour because i found it confusing at first in the hope of preventing some learning pain for the uninitiated with MSBuild :-)The confusion for me...
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VB multiline string as XML Literals
Probably known by most programmers, but I want to document it so I can find it myself later.An easy way to create a multiline VB string is to create a xml literal and use the valueDim myTest =...
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