2012 in review Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 It seems it was only yesterday that I was writing about starting my 4th year at IdentityMine, and here we are now, more than a year later. The year 2012 has been particularly interesting for all of us ... 2012 in review 0 0 0
Extending WatiN 3: Detecting if a PDF Has Opened In a New Window Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 WatiN lets you attach to browser windows so you can verify their contents and close them as part of your tests, but the standard API doesn't detect windows with PDF documents in them. Adapted from this ... Extending WatiN 3: Detecting if a PDF Has Opened In a New Window 0 0 1
Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Con... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 In today's TechNet Radio show, I'm back again for another episode in our System Center 2012 ConfigMgr SP1 series with Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager from the System Center Client Management team and ... Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Con... 0 0 0
Chocolatey Automatic Packages Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 I updated three packages this morning. I didn’t even notice until the tweets came in from @chocolateynuget. How is this possible? It’s simple. I love automation. I built chocolatey to take advantage of ... Chocolatey Automatic Packages 0 0 0
Google Code Prettify for geekswithblogs.net Soe Tun, January 1, 0001 This blog post is based on the information I found from this blog post http://geekswithblogs.net/w... I find it very difficult and tedious to ... Google Code Prettify for geekswithblogs.net 0 0 1
Attending SMUG Season II - Feb 6-8th–Key West Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 It was a great honor and pleasure to attend and kick-off the first SMUG last year. We are back at it this year: Southern Most User Group 2013 Feb 6-8th Waterfront Marriott Courtyard in Key West Florida ... Attending SMUG Season II - Feb 6-8th–Key West 0 0 0
ASP.Net MVC 2-Step Authentication lennykean, January 1, 0001 If you use Gmail, you may be familiar with Google’s 2-step verification process. It’s an extra verification step using your cell phone. If you turn on the feature, once you enter your username and password, ... ASP.Net MVC 2-Step Authentication 0 0 0
2012: Study Plan Year in Review JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Over the past year I went into study overdrive: I learned A LOT about C++, Maths, Algorithms, Finance & JavaScript. It was a great year in terms of knowledge acquisition. pro amore scientiam ! C++ ... 2012: Study Plan Year in Review 0 0 2
Phone numbers on mobile and desktop page views ihaynes, January 1, 0001 There are issues with displaying phone numbers on web pages. You may want them to display as clickable links on a mobile phone but not on the tablet or desktop view of the page.HTML5 gives us the href="tel:+44 ... Phone numbers on mobile and desktop page views 0 0 2
Thoughts on Brian’s Windows 8 Evaluation D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 So some guy named Brian Boyko posted a video on YouTube entitled “Windows 8: The Animated Evaluation”. Brian laments his attempt to use Windows 8 for 30 days on an Acer laptop, and begins to rant on all ... Thoughts on Brian’s Windows 8 Evaluation 0 0 6
How To Make Your System Slower With WMI Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 With the new Windows Performance Toolkit you can now identify bottlenecks in your system which did not show up in any profiler. Lets e.g. query for some system properties via WMI. static void Main(string[] ... How To Make Your System Slower With WMI 0 0 0
Quick Test for Entity Framework DBContext Aligned, January 1, 0001 A co-worker wrote this and we think it is useful. http://droedzone.blogspot.c... ... Quick Test for Entity Framework DBContext 0 0 0
Microsoft ends development of Expression Web ihaynes, January 1, 0001 On the 20th December 2012 Microsoft announced that development on the Expression Studio products was being stopped (In reality it had largely been stopped for many months). See http://expression.microsoft... ... Microsoft ends development of Expression Web 0 0 0
Windows Phone 7 TextBox style margin issue Vitus, January 1, 0001 I just found an interesting behaviour of Windows Phone 7 TextBox default template. When TextBox is disabled, inner text is rendered with margin: To reproduce it, create new Silverlight WP application and ... Windows Phone 7 TextBox style margin issue 0 0 0
ASP.NET MVC 4 - My FAQs Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Here are some FAQs on things that were not so obvious. I’ll continue to add to this list over time. 1. Passing HtmlAttributes using @Html.ActionLink @Html.ActionLink("Create New", "Create", null, new { ... ASP.NET MVC 4 - My FAQs 0 0 0
ASP.NET is adding new pants to its wardrobe Cory Koski, January 1, 0001 This isn’t “new” news, but it’s new to me. The ASP.NET team has come up with a way to make web applications behave like Windows applications with the love of some technologies: HTML5 + JavaScript Knockout ... ASP.NET is adding new pants to its wardrobe 0 0 0
C# to VB .NET Conversion Issues Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 In my last post I discussed the approach we used at my job to convert an ASP .NET web forms application written in VB .NET to C#. In that post I alluded to some of the issues that we encountered during ... C# to VB .NET Conversion Issues 0 0 0
MVC 4 string.cshtml override Aligned, January 1, 0001 In order to get placeholder or maxLength or other Html attributes to work with the Html.EditorFor methods, you need to create an override file in Views\Shared\EditorTemplate... @{ // make ... MVC 4 string.cshtml override 0 0 0
Blog Moved - devblog.wesmcclure.com Wes McClure, January 1, 0001 http://tempuri.org/tempuri.html Blog Moved - devblog.wesmcclure.com 0 0 0
My New Productivity Enhancer – SQL Complete by Devart Compudicted, January 1, 0001 As the new year is quickly approaching I am feeling increasingly worried about what goals I should be setting for 2013 as a database professional. I tried to get a glimpse back into 2012 analyzing trends ... My New Productivity Enhancer – SQL Complete by Devart 0 0 0
MVC4 Razor @Html.DropDownList with Entity Framework Code First Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Controller ViewData["Projects"] = new SelectList(db.Projects.Sele... => r.ProjectName)); View @Html.DropDownList("Projects") There were many complicated examples, but this worked for me. However, I ... MVC4 Razor @Html.DropDownList with Entity Framework Code First 0 0 0
HTML5 Definition Complete: Be Ready for New Standards and Demands Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 Although I don't think I ever mentioned it here, I was selected by Microsoft Learning to be a MCT Regional Lead for the Eastern US. Basically, it allows me to be a conduit between people and Microsoft ... HTML5 Definition Complete: Be Ready for New Standards and Demands 0 0 0
SignalR Hubs Service Aligned, January 1, 0001 I created an almost generic approach to interacting with the SignalR hubs. I had to use a string with if statements in the hubFactory method to create the correct hub that matches the name on the server. ... SignalR Hubs Service 0 0 0
Microsoft Channel 9 Interviews Mei Liang to Introduce Sample Brow... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 This morning, Microsoft Channel 9 interviewed Mei Liang - Group Manager of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework - to introduce the newest Sample Browser extension for Visual Studio 2012 &2010. This ... Microsoft Channel 9 Interviews Mei Liang to Introduce Sample Brow... 0 0 1
Styling Generated HTML Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 When I first started using MVC, I was very excited about the template view helpers. This was a big deal for me because I had never turned over control of how the HTML was generated. I never used the designers, ... Styling Generated HTML 0 0 0
How a Mature HR Framework Can Transform Your Organization D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 My buddy Steve Rogalsky blogged about “A Systems Thinking Alternative to Performance Reviews”. This led to this Twitter convo: So instead of replying to Steve via 140 characters, I figured I’d do a blog ... How a Mature HR Framework Can Transform Your Organization 0 0 4
TFS / Visual Studio 2012 End To End Demo Project–Intro Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve been working on a hobby project for the past little while, and I wanted to blog my way through it as I go. My intent is to use a lot of new technologies, agile best practices, and some trendy architecture ... TFS / Visual Studio 2012 End To End Demo Project–Intro 0 0 0
How to get started with Twitter Bootstrap Anirudha, January 1, 0001 Updated 15 May 13 Through this post I will give you quick overview for using Twitter bootstrap in your web project. Twitter bootstrap is a framework that contain grid system and some JavaScript based plugin ... How to get started with Twitter Bootstrap 0 0 1
Newly Published JQuery Article Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 This news may be a little late, but I have been busy J My latest article on JQuery was recently published by Simple Talk. This article explores various ways to streamline creating HTML markup on the client ... Newly Published JQuery Article 0 0 0
Free Exam Voucher for 70-480 with Training Available Aligned, January 1, 0001 Go to http://www.microsoft.com/le... get the voucher before March 2013 and before they run out.EDIT: ** I just heard from a co-worker and a comment from a reader that they HTMLJMP ... Free Exam Voucher for 70-480 with Training Available 0 0 7
Mozilla Rallies Against ITU Governance of the Internet Stephen Cebula, January 1, 0001 http://www.androidtablets.n... ... Mozilla Rallies Against ITU Governance of the Internet 0 0 0
Working with the Ajax Control Toolkit Slideshow Mike Benkovich, January 1, 0001 I had a request yesterday to put together a slideshow on a website we’re working on. That reminded me that there is a great collection of controls and tools available (for free) on Codeplex in the http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.c... ... Working with the Ajax Control Toolkit Slideshow 0 0 7
CFC Inheritance in ColdFusion csmith18119, January 1, 0001 So I’m a huge fan of a Generic Template Pattern in .NET but with ColdFusion and am faced with a challenge. How to implement inheritance and polymorphism in ColdFusion. Adobe has a great article on the ... CFC Inheritance in ColdFusion 0 0 0
Working with a CFGrid in ColdFusion csmith18119, January 1, 0001 So I just started learning about ColdFusion and one of the first thing I had to do was bind some data to a grid or table. So being an ASP.net developer I looked for the ColdFusion equivalent to an ASP ... Working with a CFGrid in ColdFusion 0 0 0
A Taxonomy of Numerical Methods v1 JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Numerical Analysis – When, What, (but not how) Once you understand the Math & know C++, Numerical Methods are basically blocks of iterative & conditional math code. I found the real trick was seeing ... A Taxonomy of Numerical Methods v1 0 0 1
Troubleshooting Blocked Transaction in SQL Server ChrisD, January 1, 0001 While troubleshooting a blocked transaction issue recently, I found this code online. My apologies in not citing its source, but its lost in my browse history some where. While the transaction is executing ... Troubleshooting Blocked Transaction in SQL Server 0 0 0
Center an Html page with CSS csmith18119, January 1, 0001 I always have to google this whenever I need it. So instead of searching every time I am putting it here. I originally got this from Reign Water Designs. Check the link here: http://www.reignwaterdesign... ... Center an Html page with CSS 0 0 0
How to use Azure storage for uploading and displaying pictures. Magnus Karlsson, January 1, 0001 Basic set up of Azure storage for local development and production. This is a somewhat completion of the following guide from http://www.windowsazure.com... that ... How to use Azure storage for uploading and displaying pictures. 0 0 0
ASP.Net MVC 4 Razor Engine For Beginners Part 1 Humprey Cogay, C|EH, E|CSA, January 1, 0001 I. What is MVC? a. http://www.asp.net/mvc/tuto... II. Software Requirements for this tutorial a. Visual Studio 2010/2012. You can get your free copy here ... ASP.Net MVC 4 Razor Engine For Beginners Part 1 0 0 24
Performance Optimization – It Is Faster When You Can Measur... Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 Performance optimization in bigger systems is hard because the measured numbers can vary greatly depending on the measurement method of your choice. To measure execution timing of specific methods in your ... Performance Optimization – It Is Faster When You Can Measur... 0 0 0
ASP.Net Fails to Detect IE10 without .Net Hotfix Ben Barreth, January 1, 0001 --------- UPDATE 12/06/2012--------- Note: this issue should now be fully resolved on Geeks with Blogs as of this morning (12/06/2012).Some interesting background: After installing the hotfix, IE10 would ... ASP.Net Fails to Detect IE10 without .Net Hotfix 0 0 5
Who could ask for more with LESS CSS? (Part 2 of 3–Setup) ToStringTheory, January 1, 0001 Welcome to part two in my series covering the LESS CSS language. In the first post, I covered the two major CSS precompiled languages - LESS and SASS to a small extent, iterating over some of the features ... Who could ask for more with LESS CSS? (Part 2 of 3–Setup) 0 0 0
light.exe : error LGHT0217: Error executing ICE action ‘ICE... Vishal, January 1, 0001 Hi there, Recently I was working with BizTalk Deployment Framework v5.0 for my BizTalk Sever 2009 projects and TFS 2010 Builds. I had followed all the steps mentioned in the BTDF documentation to create ... light.exe : error LGHT0217: Error executing ICE action ‘ICE... 0 0 0
RiverTrail - JavaScript GPGPU Data Parallelism JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Where is WebCL ? The Khronos WebCL working group is working on a JavaScript binding to the OpenCL standard so that HTML 5 compliant browsers can host GPGPU web apps – e.g. for image processing or physics ... RiverTrail - JavaScript GPGPU Data Parallelism 0 0 2
1 ASPX Page, Multiple Master Pages csmith18119, January 1, 0001 So recently I had an ASPX page that could be visited by two different user types. User type A would use Master Page 1 and user type B would use Master Page 2. So I put together a proof of concept to see ... 1 ASPX Page, Multiple Master Pages 0 0 0
Knockout JS example Aligned, January 1, 0001 I did a short presentation at work to show off some of the capabilities of Knockout Js. Here’s a link to the read-only code from the Cloud 9 account. https://c9.io/aligned/knock... ... Knockout JS example 0 0 0
Microsoft Channel 9 Interviews Mei Liang to Introduce Sample Brow... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 This morning, Microsoft Channel 9 interviewed Mei Liang - Group Manager of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework - to introduce the newest Sample Browser extension for Visual Studio 2012 &2010. This ... Microsoft Channel 9 Interviews Mei Liang to Introduce Sample Brow... 0 0 0
Messaging with KnockoutJs Aligned, January 1, 0001 MVVM Light has Messaging that helps keep View Models decoupled, isolated, and keep the separation of concerns, while allowing them to communicate with each other. This is a very helpful feature. One View ... Messaging with KnockoutJs 0 0 1
RadioButtons and Lambda Expressions MightyZot, January 1, 0001 Radio buttons operate in groups. They are used to present mutually exclusive lists of options. Since I started programming in Windows 20 years ago, I have always been frustrated about how they are implemented. ... RadioButtons and Lambda Expressions 0 0 0
Github Project Wiki: separate page filename from page title Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Starting Point In a former version of a project wiki on Github was a separation between the page filename and page title. So we build up our Wiki in a manner, that some well defined prefixes in the filename ... Github Project Wiki: separate page filename from page title 0 0 1