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!

Why Most Of The Companies Prefer Rackbank Datacenters?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The rapidly growing datacenter in India, Rackbank is a premium datacenter. Located in Indore, it has been providing the best data center services, be it a ...

Essentialism - G. McKeown 4

Book notes from 'Essentialism' by Greg McKeownExploring Essentialist will commit and go big Five practices for Exploring what is essential 'Of course I'd love to be able to set aside time on the calendar ...

Essentialism - G. McKeown 3

Notes from Greg McKeown's book 'essentialism' Discern The Unimportance of Practically Everything 'Most of what exists in the university - our actions, and all other forces, resources and ideas - has very ...

Essentialism - G. McKeown 2

Although not technical, this is a great book for managers and developers as they consider productivity of a group and themselves. In business we all want a successful outcome, but what are the best ways ...

Essentialism - G. McKeown 1

These are my notes for the book 'Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. The bulleted items are extracted from the book - and anything I may throw in has been italicized. The wisdom ...

How well do you know the CSS display property?

Chen Hui Jing has a great article on the CSS display property which is well worth reading. https://www.chenhuijing.com... Although he does mention the ‘display:table’ and ...

Interview Trivia Questions

Here's some interview questions I've been asked / seen: Name three features introduced with C# 3.0 How does ASP.NET MVC's Anti Forgery Token work? How can you update web.config programatically? The last ...

Know the Pros and Cons of Dedicated Servers

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Internet is driving the world! You can find that plenty of business owners are inclining towards selling their products and providing ...

Cloud Battles: Azure vs AWS–The Video

Earlier this month Norm Murrin and I gave a talk at the Chicago Coder Conference. We learned a lot about how the offerings of each company compares during our preparation. In the end we come to the conclusion ...

Moved to Wordpress

Since I cannot post anymore at GWB I was forced to switch to Wordpress. See you at https://aloiskraus.wordpres... really dislike the small width of Wordpress which makes it nearly impossible to post ...

AngularJS2 on ASP.Net Core using TypeScript Part 1 - Preparing the Seed Project

Starting to play with technologies that are not yet released is a pain in the a#$%. First, because big changes can occur thus breaking our proof of concept projects, Second, looking for a good resource ...

Calling Stored Procs in Neo4j using Neo4jClient –the hacky way

Neo4j 3.0 introduced the concept of Stored Procedures, now, whilst they’re not the same as SQL based SPs, they work – and well – it’s what we’ve got! Neo4jClient doesn’t currently have any native way to ...

AngularJS2 on ASP.Net Core using TypeScript Part 2 - Our First App

On Part 1 we started preparing the stage. If you still haven't done so, please visit http://wblo.gs/lRz On this Part of the series we will start building our first AngularJS2 on ASP.Net Core using Typescript. ...

Does server location matter in hosting?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE In this fast paced world, managing your business website locally is quite a daunting and intimidating task which can be accomplished without facing any kind ...

ES7 Async/Await in Node.js with Babel.js

Our production Worktile Pro was built based on Node.js 0.12 when we firstly developed and at that moment we tried our best to prevent our code from the callback hell.With Node.js v6 we can use iterator ...

This blog is dead - follow my new blog www.visualstudiogeek.com

www.GeeksWithBlogs.Net/Taru... has moved to www.visualstudiogeeks.com Follow the new feed here - http://feeds.feedburner.com... this era of fast innovation, platforms that seize ...

Change CSS for dynamic controls using JQuery

Here is the scenario in my Application: I was displaying kendo grid with inline edit feature, while validating rows it was displaying validation messages like "This field is required" with font color is ...

Real-Time Data Aggregation

I had the privilege of being interviewed by Microsoft, on Channel 9, regarding real-time data aggregation from distributed heterogeneous data sources, using the platform my company has created (Enzo Unified). ...

How to use Linear Gradient in IE9

http://anirugu.blogspot.in/2016/06/how-to-use-linear-gradient-in-ie9.html

How to open same .cshtml file side by side in Visual studio 2015

http://anirugu.blogspot.in/... ...

You don’t need JavaScript for that!

In an article with the above title, Cristina Silva looks at three examples where CSS can do a better job than commonly used JavaScript/JQuery methods. Tooltips, Dropdown Menus and Toggling Visibility (as ...

Adding CORS support for ASP.NET / WebAPI: The no hassle way

If you are working with WebAPIs, you inevitably will have to deal with CORS. This is a good read for the uninitiated. I won't go into the specifics of how browsers issue, and servers handle (or should ...

DAX - Creating a measure for Top 5 and Others

Often when you have a requirement to show a measure for the TopN of a given attribute the users will want to see the subtotal of all the other items.With multi-dimensional cubes and MDX you can create ...

Application Integration: Azure Functions Vs WebJobs

[Updated]UI development gets all the attention, but application integration is where the real work is done. When it comes to application integration in the Azure ecosystem you better learn how Functions ...

Https Redirect with Asp.Net Core RC2 And Kestrel on Windows

I've learned a lot about Asp.Net Core RC2, Kestrel and ports as I failed in various attempts to get a http to https redirect. I share this as a retrospective for myself and in hopes of helping you avoid ...

MSIs, Visual Studio Extension Manager and Possible Kim Kardashian

I've now reached v1.5.1 of the ReadableExpressions Debugger Visualizers, and have got quite a useful little extension, if I do say so myself. GitHub and OSS have done their thing with issues reported by ...

How To Safeguard Yourself From The Hazards Of Data Loss?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE In this tech-driven world, almost every business owner strives to include state-of-the-art technological tools and devices in his company that can empower ...

Understanding the Basics of Software Prototyping

Prototype software development is the process of creating prototypes of software applications. Prototyping has several benefits for instance, it helps the designer and implementer get valuable feedback ...

ETWController 2.1 Released

My ETW trace collection tool has reached a significant milestone. It becomes more and more THE tool if you want to record ETW traces while recording also user input (keyboard, mouse) along with screenshots ...

What are Database Applications?

This blog help you to understand about Database applications are designed for collecting, managing and disseminating information in an efficient manner. Mainly, these are software programs that are used ...

Schnell Solution (Bespoke Software Development) wins prestigious IT Europa Award 2016

Schnell Solutions Limited is thrilled to be named as the winner of the Public Sector & Utilities Solutions of the Year at the European IT and Software Excellence awards.The European IT & Software ...

A Brief Overview of the Disaster Recovery Planning Process

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE As the technology is evolving by leaps and bounds, every sphere of the world is transforming at an alarming pace. Presently, no company can make a thought ...

The Success Story Behind a Fleet Management System

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Whether it's 3 AM and you're leaving a social gathering or you have a flight to get on a Thursday evening, your best transportation decision would be one ...

More Deeper about 'this' in ES6 Arrow Function

When I’m developing Worktile Pro with ES6 and ES7, arrow function is one of features I like most. This makes me to use arrow function as anywhere as I could. But I also encountered some problem by using ...

Managed vs Unmanaged Colocation: Which is Right for your Business?

What is Colocation? Colocation, in simple terms, is a hosting service which companies opt for power servers and hosting. Various data centers offer these services to businesses, enterprises and start-ups. ...

3 Successful Ways to Use Mobile to Engage Students and Alumni

Did you even think to develop an alumni app? While app development might have seemed a really expensive affair before, something that institutions could not normally think of, it is quite easy to create ...

Adventures in @angular (Angular 2) rc1

Deployment on Ubuntu serverInstalling NodeNotes:removing a folder via powershell:Remove-Item -Recurse -Force some_dirGetting Started from git quickstart.I have been working with Angular 2 for about 2 weeks, ...

Using Redis Commands

Redis is an in-memory NoSQL store that can store 5 types of data: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted-Sets and HashMaps. It is a good choice for fast reads/writes in distributed systems for a relatively small ...

Safari Push Notifications - Working

So its taken me some time, but I finally have managed to enable Safari push notifications on my Bin Collections website. Take a look at http://binaryrefinery.com/b... So now if you are a Mac ...

Slightly off topic – How to get Samsung TV to Automatically switch on external surround sound system

After deliberating forever I finally purchased a big(ish) 4k TV, a Samsung UE55JU6800. Setup: 1. Sky+ HD Box –> HDMI –> TV 2. Sky+ HD Box –> Optical Sound –> Surround Sound 3. Surround Sound ...

Import & Export in ES6 with Node.js & Babel.js

ES6 introduced a new way to organize modules. It’s different from CommonJS and AMD we are currently using, which through the new keywords import and export. It still NOT being supported by the latest version ...

Economics, Agile and .Net Rocks

I enjoyed listening to DotNetRocks - The Economics, Psychology and Science of Agile with Matthew Renze. Matthew had a lot of insights into why agile works, how to propose and defend the idea using data ...

Semaphores–queuing with multiple workers–C#

One of the challenges of working with queues is how to properly and neatly process each item using multiple workers, luckily on .Net we have Semaphores. “In computer science, a semaphore is a variable ...

Cleaner Code with Static Factory Methods

A classic creational design pattern from the GoF is the factory method pattern. Examples of this pattern typically involve a factory class that constructs objects of a different type. The objects that ...

Static JSON files and Uploading Large Files in ASP.Net MVC

Technically, this is two topics and not one. But I happened to run into both today while transposing a project I wrote in Java to ASP.Net MVC and while easy to solve, did cause a bit of frustration.Topic ...

A TFS Developer In A GitHub World

Git and GitHub have been around for a few years now. They are becoming more popular by the day. I finally got around to looking at them more closely over the last few months and decided to summarize the ...

Speaker Spotlight

I'm speaking at the Syntax Code & Craft Convention this weekend, and today they've featured me in their speaker spotlight blog post. The prose is a bit more effusive and flowery than I'm normally comfortable ...

Increase Cloud Application Responsiveness With Azure Queues and WebJobs

This post is based on the presentation I gave at Cloud Saturday Chicago. In a mobile first world services need to be able to process high volumes of traffic as quickly as possible. With the certification ...

Goodbye Windows Mobile/Phone–it’s been a good (not great) 13 years

A few weeks ago I came to a decision that was a long time coming. I finally decided to dump my beloved Windows Phone by Microsoft in favor of Google’s Android. First, some history… I started using Microsoft ...

Installing Datadog on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Windows Instances

1. Use ebextentions. Here’s an example. 2. Here’s the Powershell script. You’ll need to zip up the script and upload it to S3 per the ebextentions config file above. $datetimef = get-date -format yy.MM.dd.HH.mm ...