I noticed this morning that Google has take a leaf from the Bing book and added images as a background to their home page. I think this is great as the images are always fascinating and high quality. However, the one thing that irks me with both Google and Bing home page images is that there doesn't...
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I have a web site called CalculatorIQ that I created about 2 years ago to get up-to-speed on Silverlight 2. I've been going through and converting all of my web sites to VS2010, MVC 2, .NET 4, and jQuery 1.4.1. I anticipated that CalculatorIQ was going to be a bit difficult because I'd also included...
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I was pretty excited when I watched the Google TV announcement last week. Today I read a couple of commentaries about it and they went on about the features etc. but nobody mentioned the advertising. This surprised me as my initial guess is the reason that Google have entered this market is to gain more...
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I've been using DropBox for a couple of months now and I'm very impressed. I keep my crucial source code files on there and sleep well at night knowing that they are backed up "off-site." That was my primary goal in using DropBox. However, now, I'm using more of the features and I'm using it...
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The Domain You have a website that allows the public to add comments. For example You have a forum that users can post to. You have a product listing that visitors can post reviews against. Any other listing that the public can comment on that would allow shills to manipulate public opinion for or against...
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I installed the release-to-market (RTM) version of Visual Studio 2010 and it worked well for a few days and then suddenly it started giving me a "cannot create the window" error and refused to start. I did a whole bunch of searching and discovered that there were some incompatibilities with...
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I'm in the process of converting a bunch of projects from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0 and know that I will be converting plenty more in the future so I thought I'd jot down some notes as I went along. This list of notes should increase over time. Machine.Config .NET 3.0 and 3.5 were really an extension of ...
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I'm using TortoiseHg and trying to get the hang of merging changes from multiple contributors so I setup a small test and did some changes and commits and pulled each one into a main repository without doing any merges (except one at the beginning). This is what the tree looked like. Then I tried to...
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About ten months ago I bought and setup a Windows Home Server on my home network. Since that date I've used it twice for recoveries. I follow the three rules of "backup reality", i.e. if these 3 criteria aren't met then I don't consider it a real backup: If must be automated. It must be redundant...
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I was trying to work out how many times I have checked code into TFS for each project that I've worked on in a given date range. I still haven't managed to work out how to break it down by project but did get the total count. Ran Team Foundation Sidekicks. On History tab select my User name in the drop...
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