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!

How to check crash issue in C# apps ?

Recently I was working on a C# application. Suddenly someone asks “Are you able to remove all the dll in bin folder”. read more ...

Trane XE70 furnace wont start

I have a 20 year old Trane XE70 that is still going strong. But it has needed parts and they are easy to replace. 1) if you turn on the power and it cycles through you should see a glow of the ignitor. ...

All you need to know about Android Wear SDK and Emulator

People are always on the lookout of new features and updates related to the most advanced devices, especially by the giant industry leaders like Android and Apple Inc. as well. In this write up, we will ...

Evolution of the World Wide Web From Web 1.0 to Web 5.0

WWW (The World Wide Web) “www” stands for the World Wide Web which is a part of the internet. It links and connects documents and websites together which can be searched on web browsers like Google Chrome ...

Time To Reboot

It has been nearly six months since I blogged last. Thankfully this means I have been busy working on client projects. It is a new year and just back from spring break so I think it is time to start digging ...

Windows to Go With the Spyrus USB Drive

What we need is a good bootable live USB stick for Windows. I've said this many times over the years, and hacked together things to make that very thing happen, but nothing that worked really well. So ...

How to implement AMP on your website.

Recently I used AMP on one of my website. The site was already live and I need to implement the AMP functionality on the website. In your post page you define a amphtml tag which have url of the amp page. ...

Benefits of customized .NET Application Development

Websites are the most desired tools of promotion for every brand and company that wants to reach more audience and increase the potential of the lead generation. Well, there are many options to choose ...

Which Distribution of Linux Should I Use?

I'm often asked this question: "hey, you're a Linux guy right? What Linux should I use? I have this friend who recommends _____ and I want to know what you think?" I usually reply with the same question: ...

How to open URL in browser in C# ?

In C# sometime we need to open URL in browser, for opening we can use following code.
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SQL Server: How do I pull the ASCII value for each character in a column name?

This is a handy script to cycle through every character in a column to determine what each ascii value is. This is especially useful when a string match isn't matching. Often times, there is a hidden space, ...

Common Code Smells

You may have heard the term "code smells" lately, it seems its being talked about frequently again. In this short post I'll explain what they are, and a few of them you may run across. What is a Code Smell? ...

7 Essential Principles to know: iPhone App Development

iPhones are definitely the most demanded smartphones with their unique features and dynamic UI /UX makes every iPhone user go in awe. Thanks to the amazing features of the iPhone coupled with awesome apps ...

My Latest Virtualization Setup

Like many geeks of the time I spent the 90s and 2000s with at least 2 or 3 old computers in a closet, connected by a switch running various operating systems with various services running on them. Giant, ...

Free Book Chapter

Here’s a free chapter from Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework, "Fine-Tuning Your Chatbot": http://bit.ly/2BJNcsZ @JoeMayo ...

DAX Studio 2.7.2 Released

The lastest update for DAX Studio is now live at http://daxstudio.org This release includes a number of small enhancements and fixes including the following:Enhancement: Allowing "Unlimited" Dataset sizes ...

Load Testing Your IIS Web Server

All the theory, calculations, and estimations in the world aren’t going to tell you how your website will truly perform under a load. If you’re deploying a new server or doing any kind of performance enhancements, ...

DAX Studio recent Win7 SP1 crashes

We've just found out that a recent security update to the .Net framework in January 2018 for Windows 7 SP1 has been causing crashes in DAX Studio when accessing the File menu. Unfortunately this issue ...

SQL Server: Moving DATA and LOG file to different location

The default location of the "data" and "log" files for SQL Server database is "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL13.SQL2016\MSSQ... for version 2016 unless it is set differently during the ...

Unit Test for EF LINQ queries using Mocked DbSet

Goal: Create a unit test for a EF repository query. As we all know unit tests are infrastructure agnostic and therefore have no kowledge of for example external services, databases, etc. So how can we ...

Having trouble using GitHub with BI projects

I had existing solution built. I've attached a screenshot of local repository folder structure.So to get started in GitHub, I created a company repository called "DataServices", and uploaded the entire ...

C# Local Function

static void Main(string[] args) { int Sum(int x, int y) { return x + y; } int res = 5 + 2; Console.WriteLine(res); }This is a 5 line code to show how Local method works in C# ...

ICYMI: Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework

My latest book, Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework: A Multiplatform Approach to Building Chatbots, is now available. You can find more details on the Microsoft Press site. @JoeMayo ...

Released LINQ to Twitter v4.2.0

Today, I released the latest version of LINQ to Twitter. In addition to fixing bugs, the highlighted features of this release include support for DM Events, Extended Tweets and .NET Core. Here’s a demo ...

importing ssis flat files in redshift using copy

After trying a million combinations, I finally figured out how to export data in SSIS using an OLE DB source (SQL Server) and a flat file destination. In the end all I really should have done was use "ENCODING ...

creating a t-sql script to enable query store and auto tuning for each user database

select 'ALTER DATABASE [' + name + '] SET QUERY_STORE = ON ALTER DATABASE [' + name + '] SET AUTOMATIC_TUNING ( FORCE_LAST_GOOD_PLAN = ON )'from sys.databases where name not in ('master','model','msdb','t... ...

SEO, Personas, and Analytics - Bridging the IT / Marketing Gap

As more marketing teams and IT teams start to cross paths more often, one areas they both could use some collaborative education is performance analytics. In this episode of Marketer-to-Marketer, Ardath ...

In Visual Studio, how do I pass arguments in debug to a console program?

Go to your project properties, either by right-clicking on the project and picking "Properties" or by picking Properties from the Project menu.Click on Debug, then enter your arguments into the "Script ...

Generating a SAS token for Service Bus in .Net Core

Microsoft has decided to separate the queue/topic send/receive functionality from the queue/topic management functionality. Some of these separations make sense, while others, like the inability to auto-provision ...

A Short Deep Learning Study Guide

basic Machine Learning pre-requisites:python http://docs.python-guide.or... http://jupyter-notebook-beg... http://www.scipy-lectures.o... ...

Swashbuckle Swagger UI– Prompt for Access Token (.net Core)

I use swagger to document my API endpoints. I like the descriptive nature, and find the swagger UI to be a great place for quick testing and discovery. The swagger UI works great out of the box for unsecured ...

Beginning Azure Machine Learning

Free version for Azure ML Studio for Learninghttps://studio.azur... ML Cheat Sheet for Selecting ML Algorithm for your Experimentshttps://docs.mic... ...

Announcing Enzo Online: IoT and Mobile Development Made Easier

If you are a software developer and would like to build a Mobile application, or an IoT system, it is likely that you will experience a steep learning curve for two reasons: development languages, and ...

Octopus Deploy : Format exception unpacking Windows NuGet package onto Linux box

There appears to be an issue with OD's "Deploy NuGet package" task (tested in Octopus Deploy 3.1.5). We encountered the problem while unpacking a .NET Core 2.0 application on a Windows tentacle and copying ...

Octopus Deploy : Format exception unpacking Windows NuGet package onto Linux box

There appears to be an issue with OD's "Deploy NuGet package" task (tested in Octopus Deploy 3.1.5). We encountered the problem while unpacking a .NET Core 2.0 application on a Windows tentacle and copying ...

Starting An Umbraco Project

As I have been documenting Umbraco development I realized that people need a starting point. This post will cover how to start an Umbraco project using an approach suitable for ALM development processes. ...

Relating Umbraco Content With the Content Picker

After addressing Umbraco team development in my previous post I want to explore maintaining relationships between pieces of content in Umbraco and accessing them programmatically here. For those of us ...

How Did I Become An IT Consultant Curmudgeon?

I have been accused of being a curmudgeon by more than one co-worker. The short, pithy answers to the question of I got to this point would be “experience” or “it comes with age”. But what is the real ...

Umbraco Team Development

The Umbraco CMS platform give you the ability to create a content managed site with the familiar development process of ASP.NET MVC. If you are the only developer things don’t get too complicated, but ...

.NET Core–Push Nuget Package After Build

You can configure .NET Core to automatically push your nuget package to the package server of your choice by adding a Target to your project file. 1) If your package server requires an api key, you can ...

ETH security feature distribution

Ethereum sidechain feature...ETH nodes would have a private key to decrypt the code it would run, this code is copied x times based on keys that would have access to the data, one encryption for the sender, ...

NET USE in WSL

Still getting into Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). I was using PowerShell to execute NET USE commands to access remote shares. Having tried this on WSL, it wasn’t immediately obvious how to get it to ...

I'm back!

Wow... just Wow... the posts before this are from when I was at TAFE and just beginning my studies. Oh how far I have come since then. I completed studies and got my Bachelor in Game Design/Computer Science, ...

Fix for slow iPhone 5s after IOS 11.0.1 11.0.2

Love my iPhone 5s but it was brutal after IOS 11 upgrade. I couldn’t even swipe to answer the phone. If your a fan-boy you can probably do this yourself, but I took it into the Apple Store and they restored ...

Installing a Kubernetes Cluster on CentOS 7

Having played around with the GKE and MiniKube "one stop" clusters, I wanted to build a multi-node K8 cluster from a bunch of CentOS VMs. The experience was pleasantly straightforward, following the instructions ...

DAX Studio 2.7.0 Released

The major change in this version is to the tracing engine. We’ve introduced a new trace type and made some changes to the way the tracing windows operate and incorporated some enhancements to crash reporting ...

Huge XML document to CSV

I have a huge XML document (over 2GB) exported from an automotive company system which I wanted to be able to export data from it to a CSV file to import into a legacy reporting system. Yes I know this ...