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!

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 ...

SQL Server error: "Failed to create AppDomain "master.sys[runtime].224". Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation"

In a nutshell this is due to an incompatibility between .NET and Windows. The most likely candidate for the cause would be an upgrade to either Windows or .NET. Overall, check the Windows and SQL Server ...

Building an On-Demand Grocery Delivery App for Today’s Hitech World

Today’s is a high paced world where people want to maximize the use of technology and hitech services to save more and more of their time which they can devote in other pleasure activities. That’s why ...

How to refresh the UI in Xamarin without stop debugging Xamarin live reload

Working on xamarin project and looking for hot reload ? Look at Xamarin Live reload. For using Xamarin Live Reloadsimply go to Extension Manager search for live reload and install the xamarin live reload ...

How to Reset Your MS SQL Password if You've Forgotten your SA password, and your Windows Account is locked out

Repeat this 10 times, DO NOT FRET. Trust me, at first I really freak the hell out of me for unable to do anything, even though what I need to do is just to access my local database as per normal, like ...

Hello world in express JS

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What is React Native and How to Animate Header Titles in this?

Nowadays mobile phones have become the integral part of our lives and when it comes to Android development or iOS development means when you are looking for an app creator then businesses get confused ...

What are the Important Tools for Xamarin App Development?

Right now Xamarin is one of the most popular framework to develop cross-platform apps. Xamarin development enables you to develop Android, iOS and Windows mobile applications using Visual Studio and C# ...

Introduction to ASP.NET MVC 5

Recently I make few videos on introducing ASP.NET MVC5 ...

Why cross platform mobile development is in trend right now?

With the coming of different mobile platforms around the world, the mobile app development companies are gaining a lot of traction and clients. Most of these clients are the business owners who are looking ...

#PrimeDay is back up!

Don't forget to check out all the great Amazon Prime Day Deals today! I've always been a huge fan of Amazon's error pages, except for today lol If you're a Software Engineer, take a moment to be thankful ...

How to fix Visual Studio Package not restore ?

Today I was busy working in one of WPF apps that I am holding from last few days. Everything is going on, I have made Release build 2 days ago 11 of July.Suddenly I need to give it to another person. I ...

Can't drag large MSG files into Outlook

I have a manual process where I:Drag emails from Outlook on PC1 to a shared folder, creating *.msg message filesDrag message files from shared folder to Outlook 2010 on PC2, creating emails.There's a resource ...

Top Reasons Why Your Small Business Needs a Website

Today’s world is an internet and mobile phones powered world. Now most of the businesses have online websites and a large number of people and customers access these websites not only from the desktops ...

Ajax Post on iOS Safari not working? Its the cache!

Not sure when this took effect, but a simple public facing web application we wrote using jQuery.ajax for doing our form posts nicely started not working on iOS devices. The reports came in occasionally, ...

BizTalk jobs on SkyHive

It was a long road on the BizTalk mountains and rivers. Now I am doing Machine Learning in the SkyHive. This is a startup which makes very interesting things in the job search.We are in the Beta now and ...

SQL Server: How do I get the size of a database?

use [databaseName]goSELECT database_name = DB_NAME(database_id) , log_size_mb = CAST(SUM(CASE WHEN type_desc = 'LOG' THEN size END) * 8. / 1024 AS DECIMAL(8,2)) , row_size_mb = CAST(SUM(CASE WHEN type_desc ...

Top 6 Java Web Development frameworks for mobile apps

Java is certainly a mainstream programming language which is an essential part of the most famous Android app development. It is the most popular programming language used for Android app development like ...

SQL Server: Find existing temp tables on a server.

-- query the server to examine all the existing temp tablesselect name, object_name(object_id) As ObjName,* from tempdb.sys.objects where name like '#%' ...

Top Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Mobile App in 2018

If you are running a business and your business still does not have a mobile app then you need to get one fast. Nowadays having an online presence through website is no longer sufficient, as online activity ...

SQL Server: How do look at the dataypes/lengths of columns in a temp table?

To view that information, there are 2 primary ways:select * from tempdb.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.C... where table_name like '#MyTempTable%'select * from tempdb.sys.columns where object_id = object_id('tempdb..#mytempt... ...

Simple Image Manipulation - Brightness

Last time I played with played with Pixels - Color Effect with HTML5 and JShttp://geekswithblogs.net... this short post, let's go back to basics. Let us try ...