Archive of posts in technology

• A tiny improvement to your QR Codes Nov 20, 2024
• Speeding up .NET DefaultAzureCredential Nov 12, 2024
• Running one job at a time with Azure Blob Storage leases Nov 11, 2024
• Don’t use async callbacks with System.Threading.Timer Nov 8, 2024
• Terraform: add the active workspace name to your command prompt Sep 11, 2024
• VSCode: There is no formatter for ‘aspnetcorerazor’ files installed Jun 20, 2024
• The term ‘Invoke-AzureResourceAction’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet Mar 9, 2016
• Fixing “500 : undefined” error in Swashbuckle/Swagger Mar 24, 2015
• Notify New Relic of Deployments with Chef Sep 9, 2013
• Chef: Cannot find a resource for powershell on windows version 6.1.7600 (solved) Jun 14, 2013
• My Top 9 Favorite Podcasts (Updated March 2013) Mar 11, 2013
• Building Dual-Screen Wallpapers for Windows 7 with PowerShell Feb 20, 2013
• Setting up a Samsung Wireless Laser Printer with a Phone or Tablet (i.e. Without a Computer) Feb 20, 2013
• Chef on Windows Error: tar: Cannot fork: Function not implemented (Solved) Feb 5, 2013
• The Real Reason They’re Taking Away Your Unlimited Data Dec 13, 2012
• SAP Connector: “ERROR service ‘?’ unknown” (SOLVED) Dec 11, 2012
• How Much Of that Sweet, Sweet Data Does Pandora Use on Your Phone? Dec 4, 2012
• Usability Testing is Easy. And Cheap. And Painful (But Essential!) Nov 20, 2012
• How to Convert Battery-Powered LED Christmas Lights to USB Nov 17, 2012
• Building a Digital Clock without Flash or Images Nov 15, 2012
• SQL Server 2012: “Saving changes is not permitted…” Nov 14, 2012
• Building an Analog Clock without Flash or Images Nov 14, 2012
• Snippet: Eating The Backspace Key on Data Entry Screens (Or, How I Became A Secret Hero) Nov 12, 2012
• What is going on with my iOS clipboard in Safari?! Nov 10, 2012
• Handling Drag Events in iOS with Javascript Nov 10, 2012
• SignalR: First Impressions (It’s Awesome) Nov 9, 2012
• How Dropbox with Two-Factor Authentication Neatly Handles Application Specific Passwords Nov 3, 2012
• Catching Unique Key Constraint Violations with Entity Framework and SQL Server Oct 30, 2012
• Running Visual Studio (or Any Program) As An Administrator Without Prompting for Elevation Jul 31, 2012
• Patching jQuery Validation for the iOS Date Picker Jul 26, 2012
• Let the Browser Handle the Datepicker (if it can) Jul 26, 2012
• How To Restore a Database With Active Connections Apr 13, 2012
• I Vote To Close This Meeting Nov 23, 2011
• Case Sensitivity in ASP.NET Nov 21, 2011
• LEDs Have Arrived! Nov 16, 2011
• A Candy Land Simulator: The Game Engine, Implemented Nov 15, 2011
• Outlook Tip: Automatically Archive Annoying Meeting Invitation Responses Nov 15, 2011
• A Candy Land Simulator: The Game Engine Nov 12, 2011
• A Candy Land Simulator: Overview and Data Representations Nov 11, 2011
• Please Ignore Me While I Gush Over My New Laptop Nov 10, 2011
• Installing/Upgrading Memory in a Dell Latitude 6520 (aka MOAR GBs!) Nov 10, 2011
• Jim, The Pony Taxi, Who Sounds A Lot Like an Engineer Nov 9, 2011
• How To Give Better Technical Presentations Nov 8, 2011
• What I Miss From My Android as a New iPhone User Nov 4, 2011
• How the Google Search “Do a barrel roll” Works Nov 3, 2011
• Moving A Hard Drive with Windows 7 to a New Machine Nov 3, 2011
• iPhone, from a Former Android Enthusiast Nov 3, 2011
• Reseeding *All* Identity Values in a Database Jul 19, 2011
• Using Bitly’s “+” Links to Peek at Spam Apr 18, 2011
• Reduce Noise from Responses To Your Outlook Meeting Requests Apr 15, 2011
• Speed Matters: How to Talk About It Apr 15, 2011
• Renaming a SQL Server Database Apr 11, 2011
• How Do I Print [this web page]!? Mar 24, 2011
• Feature Complete vs. Complete Features Mar 17, 2011
• Truncating the log of a previously replicated database Mar 16, 2011
• The Curious Behavior of HTML Image Inputs, Or Why “&x=0&y=0” Is Showing Up Uninvited Mar 10, 2011
• Project Noodle: Terminated Mar 6, 2011
• Code Isn’t Always the Best Tool Mar 6, 2011
• How Much Does an Apple Addiction Cost? Mar 3, 2011
• 10 Reasons Why We Should Give Google More Credit Feb 25, 2011
• Windows: Improving the Command Window, if Only Slightly Feb 18, 2011
• Hyper-V: What are these *.avhd files for? Snapshots? But I have no snapshots! Feb 17, 2011
• “Host is not allowed to connect to this mysql server” (Solved) Feb 14, 2011
• Recovering from SQL Server Error: “Syntax Error in TextHeader” Feb 11, 2011
• Generating Event Handler Skeletons in .NET Feb 8, 2011
• A Case For Rolling It (All) Yourself Feb 8, 2011
• Is Microsoft Crowdsourcing Search? Feb 4, 2011
• Trouble Creating Windows Services With “sc.exe create” Feb 3, 2011
• My Favorite Book Ever Feb 3, 2011
• Idea: Blackmail Yourself to Health Feb 1, 2011
• User Interfaces And The Fools Who Love Them Feb 1, 2011
• Google’s Subtly Personalized Search Results Jan 31, 2011
• Automating Minitab with C# Jan 21, 2011
• Windows 7 Tip: Check Box-Based File Selection Jan 11, 2011
• Arduino Day 17: Light Driven Beeps Nov 18, 2010
• Arduino Day 14: Simple Conductivity Sensor Nov 15, 2010
• Arduino Day 13: Weather Bug Nov 14, 2010
• Arduino Day 11: Extreme Feedback for Hudson Builds (Includes Chuck Norris Cameo) Nov 12, 2010
• Arduino Day 10: PC Input Nov 11, 2010
• Arduino Day 9: Simon(ish) Game Nov 10, 2010
• Export an iTunes Playlist to Android Nov 9, 2010
• Adventures in Unsubscribing (Spoiler: It Ends in “Grrrrr”) Nov 9, 2010
• Arduino Day 8: “Reaction” Game Nov 9, 2010
• Arduino Day 7: Buttons and Buzzers Nov 8, 2010
• Arduino Day 6: Analog Inputs Nov 7, 2010
• Arduino Day 5: Fun With Charlieplexing Nov 6, 2010
• Arduino Day 4: Fun With Sound Nov 5, 2010
• Arduino Day 3: Psychedelic Fun With a Tri-Color LED Nov 4, 2010
• Arduino Day 2: Digital Inputs (More Fun With LEDs) Nov 2, 2010
• Arduino Day 1: Unpacking and Fun with LEDs Nov 2, 2010
• Nanowrimo: Arduino Style Nov 2, 2010
• List<T>: .Clear() vs. new; Variable Passing in C# </T> Oct 31, 2010
• Opt Out Means Opt Out Oct 29, 2010
• Project Noodle: Initial Database Design Oct 25, 2010
• Some Thoughts on Antivirus and Why I Now Use It Oct 25, 2010
• The Best Computer Upgrade Ever: Solid State Disk Oct 24, 2010
• The Konami Code In JS Oct 24, 2010
• Building a Prettier Search Box Oct 23, 2010
• First Look at NuPack: A VS-Integrated Package Management Tool Oct 21, 2010
• Lies, Damned Lies, And Internet Speed Charts Oct 20, 2010
• Google’s Search Preview Is Impressive Oct 18, 2010
• Restyling A Website With User Styles in Chrome Oct 16, 2010
• My New Project Update: Name and Sitemap Oct 8, 2010
• Infinite Scroll Is The Best Thing Since XmlHttpRequest Oct 7, 2010
• Why Computers Suck, Part 1 Oct 7, 2010
• You Need to Stop Setting Email Priority Oct 5, 2010
• How to lose an hour: TED.com Oct 4, 2010
• In Defense of StackExchange / Trust the Experts / Roy Osherove is Wrong Sep 30, 2010
• Things Android Could Do Better Sep 29, 2010
• Things I Love About Android Sep 29, 2010
• How to Take Screenshots from an Android Phone Sep 29, 2010
• In Defense of Google, or Why Search Isn’t About Bells and Whistles Sep 25, 2010
• My New Project: Initial Mockups Sep 22, 2010
• My New Project Sep 22, 2010
• The Power of Defaults, and: SourceSafe Really is That Bad Mar 18, 2010
• Easter Eggs in Red-Gate’s SQL Compare Mar 11, 2010
• Watch out for that Distribution Database Mar 11, 2010
• Autohotkey: Wrapping the selection with a tag Mar 10, 2010
• Building URLs for “SRC” Attributes in ASP.NET MVC Mar 10, 2010
• +/-20 Years of Computing Mar 8, 2010
• Generating Super Shiny, Hopefully Secure Tokens Mar 5, 2010
• Class Inheritance Throw Back Mar 4, 2010
• Algorithms Throw Back Mar 4, 2010
• Word Document Automation with .NET 4: New Doc From Template Mar 3, 2010
• Moving List Items Between Lists Mar 1, 2010
• Word Document Automation with .NET 4: Attach Styles From a Template Mar 1, 2010
• Word Document Automation with .NET 4: Update All Fields Feb 27, 2010
• Word Document Automation with .NET 4 Feb 27, 2010
• Building a Windows Sidebar Gadget Aug 23, 2009
• First Look at Windows 7 Aug 12, 2009
• Apache Reverse Proxy Implemented Aug 2, 2009
• When it Comes to Internet Connectivity, Business Users Get Screwed Jul 29, 2009
• Structuring Our Developer Tools with a Reverse Proxy Jul 23, 2009
• Microsoft’s Response to Google’s Chrome OS Jul 15, 2009
• Bringing some Gmail-Archive Love to Outlook Jul 11, 2009
• SD Cards are Remarkably Resilient Jul 11, 2009
• Are you Crashing Responsibly? Jul 2, 2009
• Amoeba Fever Problem Jun 30, 2009
• Diagnosis II: Why Can’t LiveWriter Post from Work? Jun 29, 2009
• Highlight all matching words Jun 29, 2009
• Publishing Code to Blogger Jun 29, 2009
• Troubleshooting an Elusive Site Slow Down Jun 26, 2009
• Searching in Outlook May 23, 2008
• Surf Quietly and Securely at Work May 19, 2008
• Firefox 3.0 (RC1) May 19, 2008
• Pick a Number, Any Number Jan 5, 2008
• Apple and the iPhone Jul 24, 2007
• Programmers That…Program? Jul 4, 2007
• Vote Like Your Democracy Depends on it! Nov 7, 2006
• Floppy Disks Sep 15, 2006
• Microsoft Office 2007 (Beta 2, Technical Refresh) Sep 15, 2006
• Podcasts Sep 15, 2006
• Prime Numbers Mar 23, 2006
• Cell Phones at the Movies Mar 20, 2006
• For the “nerds” out there Feb 23, 2006
• Careful there… Feb 13, 2006
• I can’t believe it’s not truncating! Jan 25, 2006
• Oh, you work with computers? Dec 22, 2005
• Intelligent Cat Door Sep 22, 2005
• Poseidon Swimming System Sep 21, 2005
• Auto-Tint Glass Sep 18, 2005
• Buying an iPod: Fight the Urge to Splurge Sep 14, 2005
• iPod Nano Sep 13, 2005
• TiVo to the Rescue, Slickdeals.net Jul 29, 2005
• music freeloading May 17, 2005
• Perl - huh? Apr 25, 2005
• Items on the horizon Apr 21, 2005
• Googol err Google Feb 17, 2005
• iPod Shuffles Rock (my world)! Feb 11, 2005
• Stealing vs. Stealing… Feb 10, 2005