I maintain Python Koans on mirrored on both Github using git and using mercurial. I get pull requests from both repos but it turns out keeping the two…

Eric Ligman, from Microsoft, posted a great blog post this week listing all of the SharePoint 2010 Virtual Labs that are available from Microsoft. His…

Do you write stored procedures that might be used by others? And those others may or may not have already started a transaction? And your SP does several…

I’ve decided to create a sub-series of my Little Wonders posts to focus on C++. Just like their C# counterparts, these posts will focus on those features…

How to join two collections with LINQ Here is a simple and complete example of how to perform joins on two collections with LINQ. I wrote it for a friend…

It still surprises me how many people set up the DateDimID as Identity(1, 1). If you use YYYYMMDD format, then on some reports, you can even display the…

Testing for ModelState.IsValid when unit testing your controller is not straightforward, since the Model Binding is responsible for validating you model.…

This is the first in the series of demos from the “Using HTML5 Today” talk. One of the great features HTML5 offers is the chance to minimize some of the…

Developing for the Kindle Fire is pretty much the same as developing for any other Android device (aside from Amazon’s long review process…). Amazon’s…

Suppose I have a stubbed interface acting as a proxy for the real object: IDatabase databaseStub = MockRepository.GenerateStub<IDatabase>(); Now suppose I…

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 9:09 AM This is just a little script to have cat paws walking across the page using jQuery. I searched for something similar, but…

The new HTML standard is part of a proliferation of challenges and opportunities that developers face today: Going back 10 years ago, Internet Explorer…

If anyone of you has debugged managed crash dumps, I am sure you must have come across a situation when debugger keeps telling you it’s not able to load…

We wanted to follow recommendation from http://omaralzabir.com/best\practices\for\creating\websites\in\iis\6\0/ to

Specifying new screen resolutions for ubuntu in a virtual box Per default ubuntu offers screen resolutions which does not fit for my laptop. My panel…

This blog post started as a simple one, but grew to be quite large and time consuming. I am splitting it, because I really want to publish the first…

For those of you that missed it, Rob Conery offered a challenge a couple nights ago to build an API for Tekpub. In response to this, a few different…

A large portion of my work consists of designing Exchange 2010 environments for customers all around the world. Recently I was working on an assignment…

Recently I had a user come up and state that when they would make a new announcement the time would be off by 2 hours. They said they had checked the…

While at a client location this week I ran into the situation of their SharePoint deployment recognizing a handful of people by their Display Name and…