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'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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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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I'm just starting to wrap my head around Mercurial and feel that this is the best diagram that I've seen that explains the push/pull commit/update model. To get or retrieve changes from your working directory to the "server" directory is always a two step process. To "check-in" you...
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The company that I work for recently bought my team the Make Better Software: The Training Series done by Joel Spolsky at Fog Creek Software. This is my report on this course. I've listened to all the Stack Overflow podcasts with Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky and so I now "get" that Joel is...
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I'm posting this here so that I can find it again. This is Life Hacker's most popular Hive Five Topics of 2009 . I hadn't seen this before I bought my Netbook but it turns out that the one I bought was an update to the most voted Netbook on their Five Best Netbooks posting....
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I've been trying to work out how to rotate an image through the Y-axis and display its mirror image on a web page. One of the problems that I faced was trying to find the right word(s) to search on as rotate (so I discovered) is used to refer to rotation through the Z-axis most of the time. I finally...
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I just bought and installed Intuit Quicken Deluxe 2010 from their site for $59. The first thing to disappoint me was the fact that there was nowhere during the purchasing procedure to enter my coupon code and get a discount. I was in too much of a hurry to bother with hunting around for how to do this...
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