Feb3
Stackoverflow.com is a fantastic online resource for answers to technical questions. There are several reasons that Stackoverflow.com is better than other sites. Jeff Atwood, who is the founder of stack overflow described the site succinctly as "expertsexchange.com without the evil. :)" The Webster's type definition would be: Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site collaborat...
Posted by Joseph Fluckiger on
Wednesday, 3 Feb 2010 07:45.
Oct13
The biggest announcement about TFS 2010: "Price – We’re not quite ready to announce the pricing and licensing for 2010 yet but I can tell you that it will be at least as easy and cost effective to get as SourceSafe has been. Stay tuned for more info on this." great post. That means that instead of $20,000 for licensing (current cost of TFS for a small development team), I am speculat...
Posted by Joseph Fluckiger on
Tuesday, 13 Oct 2009 09:11.
Oct6
Some interesting statistics about the popularity of JQuery from the JQuery conference. - Microsoft.com uses JQuery! - 21% of all sites on the Internet use JQuery! This research is done by Google: graph ...
Posted by Joseph Fluckiger on
Tuesday, 6 Oct 2009 11:44.
Sep26
The DataGeneral class provides access to the most often used features of ADO.NET in a simple-to-use class boosting developer productivity. DataGeneral is lightweight for maximum performance. It employs Microsoft best practices. DataGeneral provides the best features of Enterprise Libraries Data Application block. In my experience, I like the Enterprise libraries Application Blocks to learn wh...
Posted by Joseph Fluckiger on
Saturday, 26 Sep 2009 10:29.
Jul30
It’s the little things that are big. I found a new feature in Windows 7 that I really like: Sticky Notes. They look and behave a lot like real sticky notes. I used to use real sticky notes like crazy. At the beginning of each day I would write all my tasks down on those notes helping me, as Stephen Covey would say: keep first things first. Lately I've been using OneNote and/or notepad. OneNote is...
Posted by Joseph Fluckiger on
Thursday, 30 Jul 2009 07:33.
Jun25
This is an excellent article describing when to use float and decimal. Float stores an approximate value and decimal stores an exact value. In summary, exact values like money should use decimal, and approximate values like scientific measurements should use float. Here is an interesting example that shows that both float and decimal are capable of losing precision. When adding a number tha...
Posted by Joseph Fluckiger on
Thursday, 25 Jun 2009 07:50.
Jun16
I've been going certification crazy this year as I've passed 5 certification tests so far. Along the way I've picked up a few tips that might be of interest to someone looking to study for and take a Microsoft Certification exam. Trancender is a win forms app installed locally, so don't need to be connected to internet. Measure up is a web app. Both Measureup and Trancender are ...
Posted by Joseph Fluckiger on
Tuesday, 16 Jun 2009 08:51.
May21
I recently installed Windows Server 2008 with Hypervisor. I was a little confused by the Snapshot options. But after reading this post, and a little trial and error, I figured it out… Apply… results in losing your changes since the snapshot. This applies the state stored in the snapshot to the current state of the machine. Delete Snapshot… results in keeping your changes since the snap...
Posted by Joseph Fluckiger on
Thursday, 21 May 2009 11:49.
May21
I often need to rename a machine running SharePoint. I was afraid this would be terribly difficult because there are several places in SharePoint that the machine name is stored, but it was actually pretty easy. Here is a good article which worked for me: rename SharePoint server Rename the SharePoint server using the STSADM command. (-o renameserver) Add alternate access mapping f...
Posted by Joseph Fluckiger on
Thursday, 21 May 2009 11:45.
May5
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Tuesday, 5 May 2009 02:47.