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Essays on thinking clearly, working for yourself, and doing real work while AI rewrites the rules. Two decades of them.
Simulating Bandwidth in Web Applications
Net Limiter lets you throttle your own connection to 56k so you can actually feel how your AJAX, Flash, or Silverlight app performs for slow users.
2007.09.10Read →SubSonic on GoDaddy Shared Hosting
SubSonic throws a SecurityException on GoDaddy's medium-trust hosting because of trace logging calls - comment out these lines and recompile to fix it.
2007.09.10Read →Texting/SMS Your Mobile Phone From .NET (or any other technology)
A running list of carrier email-to-SMS gateways and third-party services for sending text messages from .NET or any code, plus which ones to trust.
2007.09.10Read →CodeSmith Screencast
A screencast showing how to use CodeSmith to loop through a database schema and generate a text file for every table automatically.
2007.09.05Read →DB2 / SQL SERVER 2005 / .NET
Notes from moving DB2 data into SQL Server 2005 via SSIS: the Microsoft OLE DB2 driver chokes on BLOBs, the IBM ODBC driver on DateTime precision.
2007.08.22Read →SQLyog MySQL GUI Tool
SQLyog is the MySQL GUI client I switched to after years on the command line and phpMyAdmin - faster for everyday tabular data work.
2007.08.21Read →Outlook Live Mail Connector
Microsoft's Outlook connector for Windows Live Mail syncs email and contacts, but locks calendar sync behind a paid account. Still team Gmail.
2007.08.18Read →Installing BlogEngine.NET on GoDaddy Shared Hosting
Step-by-step fix for installing BlogEngine.NET on GoDaddy shared hosting, working around trust-level restrictions and App_Data permission issues.
2007.08.17Read →Postponing .NET User Group Presentation
Had to postpone tomorrow night's .NET User Group talk due to unforeseen circumstances. A new date is coming in the next couple months.
2007.08.14Read →SubVersion / TortoiseSVN Global Ignore Pattern
TortoiseSVN's Global Ignore Pattern setting keeps bin, obj, dll, pdb, and other build junk out of source control - here's the exact pattern I use and why.
2007.08.10Read →Windsor Links
Bookmarking Ayende's collection of Castle Windsor IoC container tutorials and patterns, saved here mostly so I can find them again myself.
2007.08.10Read →DbDataReader Mishap
A debugging gotcha: leaving a DbDataReader sitting in an unpinned Watch window during a test run triggered it early and broke a unit test.
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