Another excellent week in my life at Solidsoft! BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 One of the joys of my working life is the variety and contrasting nature of each day. This is in part due to the very nature of working at Solidsoft and of course with the cutting edge technology I work ... Another excellent week in my life at Solidsoft! 0 0 9
Chicago Code Camp 2013–Speakers And Registration Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 The time is fast approaching for Chicago area developers to get their geek on. The Chicago Code Camp is accepting both registrations to attend and speaking proposals. The Chicago area has some great thought ... Chicago Code Camp 2013–Speakers And Registration 0 0 0
Scratch–Programming For Kids Or Going Old School Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I was watching the TED session on Scratch after seeing it linked to in the DZone newsletter. I was interested to find out what it was and see if my kids might be interested in playing with it. Of course ... Scratch–Programming For Kids Or Going Old School 0 0 0
Introducing AppFx.ServiceBus Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 AppFx.ServiceBus is a new framework we have developed based on some real world experience on projects involving Windows Azure Service Bus queues and topics. The overall aims of the project are as follows: ... Introducing AppFx.ServiceBus 0 0 40
Html5 is like pajamas; and native app is like an Armani suit subodhnpushpak, January 1, 0001 I was doing some introspection on the work I have been doing last year and realized that I have some really strong opinion on stuff which wasn’t there a year back. These opinion are mainly influenced by ... Html5 is like pajamas; and native app is like an Armani suit 0 0 9
deploy Internet Radio Rodney Vinyard, January 1, 0001 Internet Radio AdvantagesInternet Radio is static free, high fidelityInternet Radio can be high bandwidth, rich stereo thru your current amplifier.Virtually every "traditional, over the air" radio station ... deploy Internet Radio 0 0 0
Getting wired with Building a Stella Amp Mike Benkovich, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: Hardware,Woodworking,Maker Sometimes you need to do something different, crazy, out of the usual. A couple weeks ago while I was filming some courseware for AppDev my director John Wilson ... Getting wired with Building a Stella Amp 0 0 0
Model Binding using Expression Trees Jon Canning, January 1, 0001 object Bind(object requestDto, NameValueCollection formData) { var propertyGroups = formData.AllKeys.Where(x => x.Contains('.')).GroupBy(x => x.Substring(0, x.IndexOf('.'))); foreach (var group in ... Model Binding using Expression Trees 0 0 0
Extending DateTime adding the good stuff Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 The DateTime struct in DotNet is well thought out, but they missed a few critical things that I find myself often needing. Fortunately with extension methods, we can easily fill in the gaps . When doing ... Extending DateTime adding the good stuff 0 0 0
Access BCS Data via C# Wayne H Magnum, January 1, 0001 The below code snippet allows for access BCS data via C#SPFarm farm = SPFarm.Local;SPServiceProxy... spc = farm.ServiceProxies;BdcServ... sap = (BdcServiceApplicationProxy)( (from ... Access BCS Data via C# 0 0 1
Example Privacy Policy for Windows 8 Store application Jim Becher - Untangle the Web, January 1, 0001 After publishing two apps to the Windows Store (GUID Generator) and (IPaddress Info) I learned a lot about the publishing process. I had error messages with both apps in certification regarding the "Privacy ... Example Privacy Policy for Windows 8 Store application 0 0 0
iOS and WP7/WP8 in SharePoint 2013 MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 As you guys know I have decided to start delving into mobile development. I bought a Macbook Air a few months back and I am now getting an HTC 8x. Here are some things that I have learned in my attempts ... iOS and WP7/WP8 in SharePoint 2013 0 0 0
How to install and configure DHCP server Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 1, 0001 Today I needed to create DHCP server ASAP in my LAB. Maybe this code is not so pretty … but it works. start /w ocsetup DHCPServersc config dhcpserver start= autonet start dhcpservernetsh dhcp add server ... How to install and configure DHCP server 0 0 6
Samsung in, Apple out Kit Ong, January 1, 0001 Having been users of both Samsung and Apple mobile devices, I can understand why Samsung can overtake Apple in the smart phone market, I am perfectly happy with my Samsung device even if it's not made ... Samsung in, Apple out 0 0 4
Using Lambda’s to Isolate Temporal Coupling Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 One of the most awkward things to deal with in code is Temporal Coupling. It leads to messy fragile code, that is difficult to maintain. What do I mean by Temporal Coupling? When you consume a class/component ... Using Lambda’s to Isolate Temporal Coupling 0 0 4
Step-by-Step: Build Linux VMs in the Cloud for FREE with Windows ... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 The Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering supports running Windows virtual machines and Linux virtual machines in the Cloud. In this article, I provide step-by-step guidance for running ... Step-by-Step: Build Linux VMs in the Cloud for FREE with Windows ... 0 0 0
Is Android Good For Consumers? Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 This Christmas our household got its first Android devices. They were a couple of off-brand tablets and I have come to hate them. We bought them because they were cheaper. In this post I will be looking ... Is Android Good For Consumers? 0 0 4
Windows Azure Mobile Services Update Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 It has been less than four months since we introduced the first public preview for Windows Azure Mobile Services and in this short time we have seen continual improvements to the service offering including: ... Windows Azure Mobile Services Update 0 0 0
My Thoughts on the future of BizTalk - Post BizTalk Summit 2012 Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 I thought I’d brain dump a few thoughts after the recent BizTalk summit and how some of the information will help shape solutions with the customers whom I work with. BizTalk On-Premise Traditionally for ... My Thoughts on the future of BizTalk - Post BizTalk Summit 2012 0 0 494
Step-by-Step: Build a FREE SharePoint 2013 Lab in the Cloud with ... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 My good friend and colleague, Tommy Patterson, recently blogged about leveraging the Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) preview offering to build a FREE lab environment in the Cloud. You ... Step-by-Step: Build a FREE SharePoint 2013 Lab in the Cloud with ... 0 0 7
2012 in review Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 It seems it was only yesterday that I was writing about starting my 4th year at IdentityMine, and here we are now, more than a year later. The year 2012 has been particularly interesting for all of us ... 2012 in review 0 0 0
Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Con... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 In today's TechNet Radio show, I'm back again for another episode in our System Center 2012 ConfigMgr SP1 series with Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager from the System Center Client Management team and ... Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Con... 0 0 0
Excel ODBC on OSX, Connect to SQL Server Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 Oh goodness. What a shocker. How hard can it be, to simply make Microsoft Office Mac (Excel) connect to Microsoft SQL Server. I've spent the last 2 hours being told to go spend $xx to go buy ODBC drivers ... Excel ODBC on OSX, Connect to SQL Server 0 0 0
Phone numbers on mobile and desktop page views ihaynes, January 1, 0001 There are issues with displaying phone numbers on web pages. You may want them to display as clickable links on a mobile phone but not on the tablet or desktop view of the page.HTML5 gives us the href="tel:+44 ... Phone numbers on mobile and desktop page views 0 0 2
Thoughts on Brian’s Windows 8 Evaluation D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 So some guy named Brian Boyko posted a video on YouTube entitled “Windows 8: The Animated Evaluation”. Brian laments his attempt to use Windows 8 for 30 days on an Acer laptop, and begins to rant on all ... Thoughts on Brian’s Windows 8 Evaluation 0 0 6
How To Make Your System Slower With WMI Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 With the new Windows Performance Toolkit you can now identify bottlenecks in your system which did not show up in any profiler. Lets e.g. query for some system properties via WMI. static void Main(string[] ... How To Make Your System Slower With WMI 0 0 0
Free e-books from Nasa on the Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://hubblesite.org/ibooks/, NASA have made available e-books on the Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes. These books are available both as PDF and for the iPad ... Free e-books from Nasa on the Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes 0 0 0
Using SYSPREP in Windows Embedded Standard 7 Valter Minute, January 1, 0001 Using Windows Embedded Standard 7 you can quickly build an Operating System configuration that support your hardware and include only the components required to run your application. Being able to customize ... Using SYSPREP in Windows Embedded Standard 7 0 0 2
Overuse of “as” keyword Jakub Niemyjski, January 1, 0001 Recently I realized that I am overusing "as" keyword. It is probably because its syntax is more fluent for me than ordinary cast. I see this overuse even in Microsoft examples. Let the following code show ... Overuse of “as” keyword 0 0 2
How to promote pure Server 2008 to Domain Controller Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 1, 0001 Yesterday I found something nice, but not obvious for me. You don't need to install and prepare anything just run: netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.1.100 255.255.255.0 ... How to promote pure Server 2008 to Domain Controller 0 0 3
Create iOS, Android and Mac APPS in C# and .NET mrad, January 1, 0001 Last nite was presenting at JAX-UX an intro to writing x-platform native apps using C# and .NET Xamarin's MonoTouch and Mono (www.Xamarin.com).Since it was held at JAX-UX - my emphasis was on UX, rather ... Create iOS, Android and Mac APPS in C# and .NET 0 0 0
Step-by-Step: Build a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 2 o... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 This article is Part 2 in a two-part series on building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster to support highly available virtual machines as a foundation to a Private Cloud solution. If you missed it, be ... Step-by-Step: Build a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 2 o... 0 0 0
I stopped to use GoogleDrive in favor to EverNote. Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 For a long time I've used Google Docs to write different notes, collect links for search and drafts of my posts.Later on IPad I've started to use EverNote. The main advantage for me was that EverNote allows ... I stopped to use GoogleDrive in favor to EverNote. 0 0 0
Eager Loading more than 1 table in LinqtoSql Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 When I've tried in Linq2Sql to load table with 2 child tables, I've noticed, that multiple SQLs are generated. I've found that it isa known issue, if you try to specify more than one to pre-load it just ... Eager Loading more than 1 table in LinqtoSql 0 0 0
Do NOT Change "Copy Local” project references to false, unless un... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 To optimize performance of visual studio build I've found multiple recommendations to change CopyLocal property for dependent dlls to false,e.g. From http://stackoverflow.com/qu... ... Do NOT Change "Copy Local” project references to false, unless un... 0 0 6
mywickr.com foxjazz, January 1, 0001 Its a nice thought that you can send a message that goes poof.However all you need is an iphone to save the message forever by taking a picture.Sorry wickr, there is a flaw in thy logic ... mywickr.com 0 0 2
Call Webservices…Maybe!? MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 So I have been doing preliminary work for my iOS talk for a while, but did not get into the meat of the project until recently. One day I envision my talk uploading pictures from a camera on an iPhone ... Call Webservices…Maybe!? 0 0 1
2012–The End Of The World Review Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 The end of the world must be coming. Not because the Mayan calendar says so, but because Microsoft is innovating more than Apple. It has been a crazy year, with pundits declaring not that the end of the ... 2012–The End Of The World Review 0 0 0
Advanced Continuous Delivery to Azure from TFS, Part 1: Good Enou... jasont, January 1, 0001 The folks over on the TFS / Visual Studio team have been working hard at releasing a steady stream of new features for their new hosted Team Foundation Service in the cloud. One of the most significant ... Advanced Continuous Delivery to Azure from TFS, Part 1: Good Enou... 0 0 4
Azure Diagnostics: The Bad, The Ugly, and a Better Way jasont, January 1, 0001 (This is a copy of a blog I wrote for my company blog at: http://www.stackify.com/azu... If you’re a .Net web developer today, no doubt you’ve enjoyed watching ... Azure Diagnostics: The Bad, The Ugly, and a Better Way 0 0 1
Is The Ease Of Windows Phone Development Ruining Its Image Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I was reading an article on Mashable recently by a long time iPhone user who is living solely on a Lumia 920 at the moment and giving her assessment. One thing that struck a nerve with me was her describing ... Is The Ease Of Windows Phone Development Ruining Its Image 0 0 0
Interesting Blog Stats–What Sells Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Just out of curiosity I decided to find out what the most frequently post were on my blog. I knew what number one would be just from checking daily stats from time to time. The main theme that I found ... Interesting Blog Stats–What Sells 0 0 0
IASA South East Florida Chapter – November 2012 Meeting Rainer Habermann, January 1, 0001 After a short introduction by Rainer Habermann and announcements for the chapter and promoting the upcoming IASA IFC Certification Class in January 2013 at Citrix, the audience was exited to welcome Jesus ... IASA South East Florida Chapter – November 2012 Meeting 0 0 0
Windows 8 with Hyper-V client running TFS 2012 system on my new i... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Problems and Solutions Using Mac bootcamp I installed Windows 8 on my new Macbook Pro 15" (not a retina screen version), which has OS X 10.8.2, 2.6 Ghz Core i7 with 8 GB RAM. I followed the simple procedure ... Windows 8 with Hyper-V client running TFS 2012 system on my new i... 0 0 0
A Simple Entity Tagger Elton Stoneman, January 1, 0001 In the REST world, ETags are your gateway to performance boosts by letting clients cache responses. In the non-REST world, you may also want to add an ETag to an entity definition inside a traditional ... A Simple Entity Tagger 0 0 4
Building Enterprise Smartphone App – Part 4: Application De... Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 This is the final part in a series of posts based on a talk I gave recently at the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group. Feel free to leave feedback. Application Development Considerations Now ... Building Enterprise Smartphone App – Part 4: Application De... 0 0 0
IOS 6.0.1 - 5W happiness for ALL. Barry Shulam, January 1, 0001 In my first iPad Gen1 and iPad Gen2 I received a 10W charger. When you plugged in your devices to a lower rated source It would display a msg box telling you the device could not charge from that source.It ... IOS 6.0.1 - 5W happiness for ALL. 0 0 1
Building Enterprise Smartphone App – Part 3: Key Concerns Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 This is part 3 in a series of posts based on a talk I gave recently at the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group. Feel free to leave feedback. Keys Concerns Of Smartphones In The Enterprise These ... Building Enterprise Smartphone App – Part 3: Key Concerns 0 0 0
Podcast with AJI about iOS development coming from a .NET backgro... Tim Hibbard, January 1, 0001 I talked with Jeff and John from AJI Software the other day about developing for the iOS platform. We chatted about learning Xcode and Objective-C, provisioning devices and the app publishing process. ... Podcast with AJI about iOS development coming from a .NET backgro... 0 0 1
No endpoint listening at......... Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 I was having some very frustrating behaviour on our build server and while I found a number of articles online with similar error messages none of them helped me. I thought I would just explain this here ... No endpoint listening at......... 0 0 37