Ruby/Rake and Python Decorators I had been experimenting with Ruby/. I took a little while for me to get adjusted to Ruby's syntax. I love closures in…

Man, oh, man! Setting this thing up was a pain in the arse. It took up most of my day! Anyway, hopefully, I can save someone else the heardache.

If you take the security settings in a GPO, and look closer to the audit policy. You will see 2 logon events. Audit account logon event and audit logon…

Although I've never met them personally, I blame Dave Burke and for my little jaunt down memory lane this past weekend. It all started when I was cleaning…

You may receive the error "The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server." while trying to consume a Web Service from your…

Natively the GridView doesn't support the insertion of records. However you can manipulate the footerrow in such a way that you can use it as an insertion…

My past experiences with Mono left me unimpressed because of it's speed issues, in some cases the .NET Framework runing six times faster. But because a…

FTPS over a NAT Firewall is a problem, but there are solutions. First, an explanation of the problem: The reason why FTPS (and even FTP without SSL) is a…

I know I don’t often talk about code, but I have recently had the good fortune to get back into playing around with the new version of SQL Server 2005. I…

Using LDAP to authenticate users is common, fast, and easy way to do. A while back I wrote a using the IP\Works! LDAP component. This particular article…

If you use Virtual PC 2004 frequently, you are going to notice that the virtual hard disks (.VHD) files growth a lot, as files are saved within the VPC…

I used to use this service for my webhosting awhile back, and it was pretty good. Since I was loooking for a reliable service, I decided to go with them…

Well there were about 40 people at the girly geek dinner and out of those people there were a few guys, and yes they did have invites. I was impressed by…

System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive. I've been trying to figure out what the cause of…

One of the many new features of Visual Studio 2005 is the concept of solution folders. You use them to organize the projects inside the solution, it is a…

From the You Had Me At EHLO Exchange blog (who knew?): Why should you use Diskpar (Diskpart in W2003 SP1)? Exchange Server can benefit from having basic…

Upon clicking on the SQL Server Enterprise Manager shortcut the following error occurs: MMC cannot open the file C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL…

A while back I was working on a project with Microsoft when we had a visit from someone on the Microsoft .net CLR product team. This person coded examples…

So the “new” way is to specify Signing in the projects' properties. You can easily Sign the assembly with a key file by convieniently setting this nice…

They’ve done it again. The date on this tool is a few months ago but I just found it yesterday. VMware offers for free download a virtual machine importer…