I love .Net — I have been using it since it was originally released, and actually, since it was in alpha. It was a paradigm shift in the beginning, but it became second nature in a short time. The power of the framework and the intuitiveness of C# hooked me, with the familiarity of C++ [...]
Another update from the bang-head-on-desk dept… I just wanted to drop a quick note for future reference and for your quick pain relief when installing Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (it looks like installing Update 1 may cause the same problems. I just got an updated machine loaded with Windows 7 issued to me at [...]
I know that past couple of posts have not been technical in nature. Today’s rant isn’t either, but just as those posts, there is a relationship to technology. And sometimes one just needs to vent… There have been some recurring patterns surrounding pricing of goods and services that I have been observing for a while [...]
In Part 1, I talked about location independence, my objective to achieve it and my observations about what it means and what I see it will likely take to get there for me. Again, this isn’t a success story…yet. This is a work in progress, and I want to capture these experiences for my myself [...]
It’s something that most of us talk, or at least dream about, but never really act upon. I have called it mobility, but I think location independence describes it better. It’s the positioning of one’s life and career to be able to be wherever at any time. We all have our own different motivations for [...]
I am watching a great series on Microsoft’s Channel 9 called Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start. They made a clarification about the Web Essentials 2012 extension/add-on for Visual Studio that is important, and that is that it is a “labs” tool, a set of experimental tools that Mads Kristensen and his team are [...]
I have been battling a frustrating scenario for a while now, and while I haven’t figured out why it is happening, I have figured out how to work around it. In this post, I will describe my dilemma and how I got it to work. As soon as I figure out the why, I will [...]
Being the enterprise business applications developer that I am, ASP.NET development has not been a major focus of mine up until recently. Because of this, finding my way around the web side of the Visual Studio fence has been a learning experience which is ongoing, particularly in how web sites and applications are handled by [...]
I was just working with a co-worker of mine who, according to his own words, knows just enough T-SQL to be dangerous. He had a query that he put together that has a nested subquery which was taking about 4 minutes to complete on its own, but when he ran it as part of the [...]
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