Essential Tools to find bugs... before they get to production

Developers now have access to free and inexpensive developer tools that can help find and fix many common application problems. These new APM tools are now an essential part of every developer’s tool set. Show me the tools!

ODBC Progress On ServerSide Swift

So with thanks to they guys at IBM (credited on the GitHub Page).I’ve started work on an ODBC SwiftKuery database driver. https://github.com/richardp... contributions welcome.I’ve ...

All That You Need To Know About New Iphone 2019 Release Date

The world market is abuzz with the iPhone 2019 rumours and the best part about it is that most of the fans and the users of iPhone love it when they hear something new about the upcoming versions of iPhone. ...

No one takes you seriously when you are young

This blog has move to: http://hornedowl.net/There is something that we all share, something that frustrates us immensely. It's not being taken seriously… Well, there's probably more things that frustrate ...

Quality Assurance companies in the World in 2019?

Xicom is best company among quality assurance testing companies when we compare them on several fronts like quality, professionalism, standards, timeframe and cost of service etc. Xicom is an ISO 9001 ...

Fixing incorrect date formats in Power BI Report Server when using Chrome or Firefox

We are using Power BI Report server to publish Power BI Reports internally. And being in Australia we use a “sensible” date format of dd/mm/yyyy However at a recent showcase with some of our end users ...

Factors that Lead to Successful Ecommerce Development

Ecommerce websites and businesses come with a lot of profit tag and this is the reason why we see so much competition in the ecommerce sector. After all, it has become so much easier for the businessmen ...

Bringing ODBC To Server Side Swift

So disclaimer, this isn’t finished by any standard, but I wanted to document how far I’ve got so far. GoalTo be able to connect http://vapor.codes to an ODBC data source. Primarily I wanted to be able ...

[Powershell Series] Creating Graphical User Interfaces – Working with rows and columns

This blog has move to: http://hornedowl.net/Rows and columns are things I've recently started to dive in to since I was getting fairly annoyed when I was building larger user interfaces. They're pretty ...

[Powershell Series] Creating Graphical User Interfaces – The basics

This blog has move to: http://hornedowl.net/So, you've been writing PowerShell Scripts that interact with users and figured "Hey, I really don't want to listen to the complaints that this it is archaic ...

Values Statement

A few months ago, the company I work for redid their corporate vision/mission statement. It was a very positive process. It holds people accountable and makes sure that everyone behaves in a way that supports ...

DAX Studio Parameters Dialog

I recently updated the documentation on daxstudio.org to include a page on the Parameter Support, but I thought this might also benefit from a longer explanation. It may surprise some people to hear this, ...

[Powershell Series] Creating Graphical User Interfaces

In this series I will go over everything I've learned to date about working with GUI's for PowerShell. Hopefully it will help you out with learning how to build user interfaces that are a bit more user ...

It’s been a long time, my dear…

March the 28th, 2016. The date I published my last blog post… It's been a long time indeed. And in those mere 3 years a lot of things happened to my life. Not that that is supposed to be an excuse or anything, ...

Unprofessional Software Professionals

Before I talk about the software professionals, let me first say a little something about American politics. Boy, this blog post has gone off the rails quickly. Don’t worry; I won’t talk about Trump. Here ...

WSL, git, ssh keys, and a partridge in a pear tree

(Note post is first draft)Just ran into this tonight, setting up a new machine to actually run Ubuntu Bash via WSL. I was trying to use git in the WSL ubuntu shell and use ssh keys. Also found that after ...

Ajax Post on Safari 11.4 timing out for strange reasons? Check here

This was a little doozy.We have a site that has ajax file upload fields that worked for all browsers, IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari except for one instance: Safari on iPhones.How strange! The problem exhibited ...

Top Artificial Intelligence Technologies to Look for in 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is proving to be the most revolutionary technology in recent time that would completely change the way world is working now. AI has the potential to reinvent everything from ...

Personal Overtime Policy

How much overtime are you willing to work? How much compensation should there be? Does this depend on the type of work? These are all good questions. Before doing a code review it is a good idea to have ...

DevOps TotalALM Tokenization task doesn’t work

This tripped me up. It looks to be quite simple. You specify a folder, a file, and a token placeholder start/end. So if you define a pipeline variable named SomeConfigSetting, and in your config file you ...

What Will be the Healthcare Technology Trends for 2019?

We have seen enormous growth of technology in last few decades but healthcare has been slow to adopt the technology. Now time is changing and healthcare industry too is about to witness significant changes ...

Your Guide to create WordPress plugin customized to the website!

With WordPress being the best CMS of all the times, the advancements that revolve around the WordPress CMS is just reaching the peak level. Not only WordPress themes, but any type of WordPress plugin can ...

Power BI – Fixing Dates from Sharepoint Lists (converting UTC Dates to Local Dates)

So the problem below was in relation to working with dates from a Sharepoint 2013 List, but the same technique should be applicable any time you want to convert UTC/GMT datetime fields to a local time. ...

Amazing Mobile App Ideas For Business Startups in 2019

Mobility has nowadays become the synonym of growth while the businesses which have no plan to build mobile apps have got very less chance to continue to grow in future. A dedicated mobile application is ...

Apple Watch – it’s the small things

So I got an Apple Watch for Christmas, the n-1 gen. My expectations were on the low “it’s just a gadget” side. However, it is the little things that amaze me. Here is one – Our company uses Symantic VIP ...

SQL Server: How can I tell which service account SQL Server is running under?

This query will provide the basicsSELECT DSS.servicename, DSS.startup_type_desc, DSS.status_desc, DSS.last_startup_time, DSS.service_account, DSS.is_clustered, DSS.cluster_nodename, DSS.filename, DSS.startup_type, ...

DAX Studio 2.8.1 released

So thanks to a couple of early adopters we’ve found and hopefully squashed a few bugs that managed to sneak into the 2.8.0 release and the 2.8.1 release is now live on https://daxstudio.org v2.8.1 Includes ...

DAX Studio 2.8.0 Released

So it’s been a little while coming, but the 2.8.0 release of DAX Studio is now available at https://daxstudio.org It contains a host of new features as well as a lot of stability improvements. Below is ...

DAX Studio – What do all those numbers mean in the server timing output?

When you run a query in DAX Studio with the Server Timings feature switched on you will see output like the following. A number of the metrics that are gathered by the server timings have been abbreviated ...

Easy Method To Integrate Biometric Authentication In iPhone Apps

Undoubtedly, iPhones are the most updated smartphones in the world right now. There are many reasons why iPhones are always in demand throughout the world. Another advantage that iPhones have already given ...

Empowerment

The objective of empowerment is to enable someone (or everyone) on a team to be able to make the same decisions that the team leader (or CEO) would make. Empowerment is difficult to implement. It is not ...

How can I tell which node is the primary, or 'active' node in a SQL Server Cluster

Issue this command from the master db Select ServerProperty('ComputerNam... ...

My somewhat colorful non-spoileriffic review of Aquaman (aka Wet Thor)!

My somewhat colorful non-spoileriffic review of Aquaman (aka Wet Thor)!TL;DR: It's fucking wonderful. See it.My amazing wife managed to secure us a couple of advance seats to see Aquaman, and I have to ...

Making app in Blazor (WebAssembly) in Visual Studio

Today I make a little presentation on Blazor Programming. You can see the video here https://www.facebook.com/an... ...

What's Next for Content Marketing

What is the next big thing in the boundless world of content marketing? Where do we go from here? As a software developer living in the world of marketing, the understanding of this topic is core to where ...

Reasons for Updating Mobile App Regularly by the Owner Company

Most of the businesses nowadays are taking the critical step of developing their mobile app. This is certainly the right investment as by this way your business will have more chances of success and you ...

Xicom Provides High Quality IoT Consulting Service

Xicom provides high quality IoT Development Company Service for its worldwide clients. It has achieved remarkable feet by recently developing IoT app for its 500th client. Xicom has expert IoT consultants ...

Why Hire iPhone App Developer for AR and VR Business Apps?

Mobile apps are being developed in a very big number and there is nothing stopping this ritual! Yes, in this fast-paced and hard life of competition, getting apps developed for the business by hiring a ...

Cloud Architecture Guidance

I've worked with the 3 main cloud providers over the past decade. Whilst AWS has an abundance of services + excessive docs, and Azure is strictly for .NET refugees, for me, GCP (Google Cloud Platform) ...

What are the Popular Types and Categories of Mobile Apps?

Today is the age of mobile phones and different types of mobile apps installed on them. People do so many of their daily tasks using these mobile apps therefore these mobile apps have become an integral ...

Graph Theory Concepts

Graph Theory Conceptslast year I was working on an NLP Deep Learning project that required me to compare parse trees for different question / answer pairs. I needed to extract feature-set for my model, ...

Enable Transparent data encryption on SQL Server IaaS with Azure Key vault

SQL Azure has TDE enabled by default, recently there was a requirement for me to enable TDE for a SQL IaaS box and the below link was found helpful.http://www.bradleys... ...

15 seconds of farming

So some great geek stuff with a customer of mine (Family Farms). We needed to integrate combine-harvester and tipper trucks on our iPad app. to record weights as combine tips to nearby truck. This was ...

Unit Testing With .NET Core

So you've just started building .Net Core applications and really starting to gain some traction. You quickly learn how mature and thorough the .Net Core framework is becoming and think "I need to start ...

Azure Blobs Vs Azure Files wrt Azure Search

https://docs.microsoft.com/... Documentation on the difference covers pretty much everything except the details on Azure Search search.Azure ...

How to Code Review

This is the second of a two part blog post on code reviews. This first post is on why and when code reviews should be done and some of the soft skills needed. This post is a technical checklist on some ...

Code Reviews

This is a 2 part blog post on code reviews. This first post is on why and when code reviews should be done and some of the soft skills needed. The second post is a technical checklist on some things to ...

VSTS Release IIS Web App Manage task Cannot bind argument to parameter ‘String' because it is an empty string.

I cloned a stage in the release pipeline which had a Web App Manage task. The App Pool specified user name/password look as if it was cloned too as the variable “app_pool_svc_account_passw... showed “********”. ...

(GIT) Remove all local branches except Master

Often I find I retain my local GIT branches long after their usefulness expires. Deleting them one at a time is a hassle, and probably the reason I don’t clean them up more often. Fortunately, someone ...