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!

Implement iCal Subscription Service through in Node.js

Worktile Pro contains three main modules: task, calendar and drive. In calendar module user can create events such as meeting, appointment with participants, location, resources and recurrence. It also ...

Integrating ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection in MVC 4

ASP.NET Core 1.0 (what had been called ASP.NET 5) is a complete redesign of ASP.NET that is open-source and cross-platform. Since this is a redesign of the framework, it comes with a lot of architectural ...

Big Data File Format Zoo

Big Data has a plethora of Data File Formats - its important to understand their strengths and weaknesses. Most explorers start out with some NoSQL exported JSON data. However, specialized data structures ...

ASP.NET Core and MVC 6 Lessons Learned

I recently finished a small website using ASP.NET Core and MVC 6 - I only scratched the surface of the framework, but here's some gotchas and things I picked up along the way. If you're entirely unfamiliar ...

Numeric Range and DateRange functions for Sql Server

Here is a surprisingly effective way of generating integer sequences, and date ranges on sql server. This source code is also available at githubFirst we need a function that generates the numbers from ...

Advanced CSS Selectors you never knew about

Great article about the CSS selectors you never knew existed, really. https://medium.com/the-web-... ...

Why A Growing E-Commerce Website Needs A Dedicated Server?

For an e-commerce startup, the first and foremost thing is to have a server. To create an ideal business with high volume of e-commerce transactions, the servers that brings a lot of ease are dedicated ...

Pay Attention to Use ES6 Arrow Function with 'arguments'

There is an enhancement in ECMAScript 6 named "Arrow Functions", which likes lambda expression in C#, allow us to define a function within less lines of code. I like this new feature and began to use it ...

What Factors Are Driving Data Center Growth in India?

In India, billions of rupees are spent on data centre infrastructure to cater to the ever-growing needs of businesses. Choosing the right data center infrastructure has become far more difficult for the ...

Easy Handle Leak Detection Without A Debugger

Finding handle leaks in all processes at once for all handle types without a debugger is no longer impossible. Since Windows 8.1 (0?) each handle creation and close call is instrumented with an ETW event. ...

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Ways to Migrate from Parse Push to Amazon SNS

As you might definitely know, Parse reported that it will resign its operations by January 28, 2017. To offer clients some assistance with migrating their Parse Core resources to another facilitated supplier ...

Define a Class in Multiple Files in Node.js

Features always grows much faster than we expect. When I am build Worktile Pro I created a JavaScript file contains all business logic in class for the task module. But after several months development ...

PowerShell: Adding Windows Version to Desktop

I’m forever looking this up on the web then having to use Reedit to hack my registry so I thought it was about time I wrote a PS script to do it for me. And so here it is! Get-PSDrive CD c:\ $RegKey = ...

Better single-page apps with ASP.NET MVC 6 - Steve Sanderson NDC2016

I watched the very interesting talk by Steve Sanderson (KnockoutJs creator) from NDC 2016 yesterday and took some notes and screenshots that are worth sharing. Watch the video, but here is my summary. ...

Spotting a Missing Object

There are various tell-tale signs when a system is missing an object, and I spotted some of them recently while writing the ReadableExpressions library. ReadableExpressions parses an Expression tree using ...

Catching Up with UWP in LINQ to Twitter

LINQ to Twitter recently released as v4.x, where one of its main goals was to support Universal Windows Platform development. LINQ to Twitter has supported many platforms and UWP is a natural evolution. ...

Do you understand REM and EM units?

In a post “REM vs EM – The Great Debate”, Zell Liew gives a thorough explanation of Rem and Em units and how they can be used. Well worth reading if you’ve ever had issues using them or wondered how they ...

sql server won't start as clustered resource after service pack upgrade

I updated my production SQL Server 2012 cluster from SP1 to SP3 CU1 last night and had to spend an hour trying to figure out why the SQL Server Engine service wouldn't start for one of my two instances. ...

How can I get a list of what windows patches were installed?

For an effective, simple HTML formatted static list go into an MSDOS command window and type: wmic qfe list full /format:htable > c:\winpatches.htm

Friendly, Readable Expression Trees

tl;dr: ReadableExpressions is an extension method which makes a readable string from Expression trees that's on NuGet and GitHub. There's a set of Debug Visualizers which use it in the Visual Studio Gallery. ...

Lock Pages In Memory

SQL Server together with other RDBMS, are the most memory consuming applications on our servers, and this is because, RDBMs usually cache objects into the memory to take advantage of the speed that physical ...

How to hide control if DataContext is null in WPF?

The best way is to bind the Visibility property to use TargetNullValue.Note:The other-way would be to use a IValueConverter and Toggle the Visibility inside the Convert method<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding ...

Virtual machines for testing browsers on Windows, Mac and Linux

Microsoft now have a whole range of virtual machines for testing IE6 through to Edge, on Windows, Mac and Linux. https://dev.windows.com/en-... ...

The Case of Slow WPF Rendering in a WinForms Application

I had an interesting case where a new WPF control was added to a legacy WinForms application. The WPF control worked perfectly in a test application but for some strange reason it was very slow in final ...

How to hire a WPF developer?

Lately people were asking me, what is the minimal list of things expected when you are looking for a WPF programmer. So, I managed to compile a list, hope this helps1) XAML Basics & Basic controls ...

Bootstrap dropdown not working properly

Sometimes back, when I was working on TurboScrum project with angular and bootstrap, I bumped into this issue. I was unable to get the bootstrap drop down working. After couple of hours of hard research ...

Angular, Parse and Bootstrap JSFiddle

Further to my previous post, I have uploaded the code as a JSFiddle.1. Default view of list of usersA full list of all users in the "Users" table is retrieved and displayed. "Edit" and "Delete" buttons ...

How to hire a Scala Dev

As chief architect of an Ad-Tech startup, part of my role involves hiring and mentoring software engineering candidates. Our technology stack includes Scala, SBT, Akka, Spray, Spark + MLlib, AWS, Ecmascript ...

Simple Generic CRUD with AngularJS, Parse and Bootstrap

Envisage almost any data-driven user interface, and sooner or later you will probably come across a requirement like: - present the user with a list (of users, addresses, products, etc.) - allow the user ...

Fast Square Root calculation for the BigInteger class in .NET

If you google carefully, it appears there are some resources to help with a common problem.But just for good measure, here's my own implementation, which utilises the fact sq(n) = (n-1)(n+1)+1, and the ...

Data Center Checklist for Recovering From Disaster

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Datacenter disaster recovery plan is an absolute necessity to protect a company’s investment in communications, information technology ...

Death of a Scrum Room

A friend of mine (seriously - a friend of mine - this isn't about me) works at a medium-large company on a medium-large application in a medium-size dev team. A few years ago they had a scrum master and ...

How a Bad Hosting Service Could Ruin Your Business

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 A good website plays a vital role in boosting sales revenue. A stylishly designed website with meaningful and resourceful content ...

SqlDependency Notification database Options troubleshooting

For SQL notifications we followed the steps described in http://dimarzionist.wordpre... it didn't work for our database. The instructions ...

Links for RazorEngine development.

We are using RazorEngine to generate emails based on .cshtml templates. Below are a few links that I used when develop ithttps://antaris.github.io... ...

How to set iOS Pocket to open in Web View.

I prefer to open pages in Web View, because Article View often doesn't show text (in particular source code) properly.However option "Open Best View" usually opens Article View and I needed to change it ...

Insert new line in multiple xml files using Visual Studio

I needed to insert new line after existing one in multiple similar xml files.In Visual Studio open "replace in files" dialog and tick "use regular expression"In "find" escape "/" as "\/" <param name="ExistingKey" ...

Apple to create Feedback Forum.

Recently I've submitted a few suggestions to iTunes support forum. But I was informed, that for suggestions I have to use http://www.apple.com/feedba... form. I feel slightly uncomfortable, ...

Top 5 Android Apps that You Missed in 2015

v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} The fundamental motivation behind building up a mobile application ...

Onshore or Offshore: Where to Develop Your Mobile Application?

If you are a leading Android app development company with a great team of Android app developers, you must be facing the constant dilemma – is it better to develop my mobile application with onshore or ...

Farewell Parse, Hello Mobile Application Development Platforms

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Parse, which is a piece of Facebook recently declared that they are closing down their MBaaS (Mobile-Backed-as-a-Service). Parse's cloud hosting MBaaS will ...

Mobile Apps: 3 Trends the Next Generation Can Look Forward To!

Here are three patterns which any Android app development company and Android app developers must know that are exploiting the mobile transformation to make our lives less demanding, more beneficial and ...

Case insensitive StringHelper.EnsureEndsWith

I've created an extension method for string public static string EnsureEndsWith(this string str,string sEndValue,bool ignoreCase=true) { if (!str.EndsWith(sEndValue, ignoreCase, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)) ...

ScrollToControl helper method for ASP.Net web forms to move position to particular control

I've created a helper method for ASP.Net web forms to move position to particular control /// <summary> /// /// </summary> /// <param name="page"></param> /// <param name="clientId"></par... ...

Stash, Pull, Stash Apply as one git command

I noticed that I often do the same sequence of git commands.UPDATE: dox suggested simpler alternative to use aliasesrun notepad ~/.gitconfigand add[alias]spa = !git stash && git pull && ...

TeamCity Build Number from Most Recent Git Tag + 1 Dash Short Sha

We want a semantic version build number derived from the most recent git tag that follows a three-node semantic version format. We use GitLab and here’s how we do that in TeamCity. 1. Add a Powershell ...

Parse shutdown: Future of Mobile Backend as a Service

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE It was stunning for the whole developers group when Facebook announced shutting down of Parse. Similarly, as other mobile application developers, I was genuinely ...

Parse Shutdown: What next for your backend?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE It was a matter of shock for the entire developers community-Shutting down of Parse. In the same way as other mobile application developers, I was truly shattered ...