Post Archives

2013

May

• 05/13/2013 Your Project Needs a Theme
• 05/03/2013 Fixed: Access is denied Exception

April

• 04/22/2013 Windows AzureConf 2013
• 04/10/2013 The Trust Equation
• 04/08/2013 Take the Pessimist's View

March

• 03/26/2013 Sync to Paper
• 03/05/2013 Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel
• 03/04/2013 Help Your Team Succeed By Providing Context, Tools, and Opportunities

February

• 02/28/2013 How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 10
• 02/25/2013 Agree Now to Disagree Later
• 02/12/2013 The specified blob does not exist
• 02/05/2013 The First Thing You Should Do After A Missed Deadline
• 02/01/2013 Innovation and Information

January

• 01/31/2013 Quote: There are a million ways to lose a work day...
• 01/22/2013 Thank You.
• 01/21/2013 It Really Is All About the People
• 01/15/2013 The remote server returned an error: (411) Length Required
• 01/03/2013 How Successful People Manage Goals

2012

December

• 12/13/2012 No publisher was set for configuration settings
• 12/11/2012 Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient
• 12/10/2012 How to Filter by DateTime in Azure Table Storage

November

• 11/23/2012 Increase Sales by Improving Local Search Results
• 11/21/2012 Shrink Your Team to Increase Effectiveness
• 11/14/2012 How to Increase the Soft Caps on Your Windows Azure Subscription
• 11/11/2012 Your career needs a campaign strategy
• 11/01/2012 Write it down

October

• 10/16/2012 Could not load file or assembly msshrtmi or one of its dependencies
• 10/15/2012 CacheInstaller.exe has stopped working
• 10/12/2012 Getting Started with Security in .NET and Windows Azure
• 10/11/2012 Reduce Your Bounce Rate by Implementing a Responsive Design
• 10/10/2012 The type 'System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.EntityObject' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced
• 10/08/2012 Take the job that gives you more responsibility
• 10/04/2012 Manage Your Meeting Size
• 10/03/2012 Dealing With Change

September

• 09/26/2012 Getting ahead early matters
• 09/24/2012 If Everything is Important, Then Nothing Is
• 09/21/2012 Work Yourself Out of a Job
• 09/12/2012 Happy Programmers' Day!

August

• 08/20/2012 404 Error when uploading large files into Windows Azure
• 08/17/2012 Get The Right People in the Room
• 08/16/2012 One on One
• 08/14/2012 Stay off of the Critical Path
• 08/13/2012 Quote: You will be in the exact same position next year except for the books you read and the people you meet.
• 08/10/2012 I'll look into it
• 08/02/2012 Why your story point estimations are too low

July

• 07/16/2012 Entity Framework: There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first.
• 07/15/2012 What to do if you are unhappy at your job
• 07/14/2012 Beware The Second System Effect

June

• 06/28/2012 Why is inserting data into Azure Table Storage so slow?
• 06/14/2012 The AudienceRestrictionCondition was not valid because the specified Audience is not present in AudienceUris

May

• 05/17/2012 A review of Outliers: The Story of Success
• 05/13/2012 System Center Operations Manager< Storage Account for Windows Azure Could Not be Discovered
• 05/11/2012 Unable to update database to match the current model because there are pending changes.
• 05/10/2012 Using Entity Framework Database Migrations to Update a Remote SQL Azure Database
• 05/09/2012 How to Enable Remote Desktop and Generate an Encrypted Password in Windows Azure
• 05/04/2012 ErrorCode<ERRCA0017>:SubStatus<ES0006>:There is a temporary failure. Please retry later.

April

• 04/27/2012 Entity Framework Code First Migrations TargetInvocationException Fix
• 04/25/2012 Fixing the "One of the request inputs is out of range error" in Windows Azure.
• 04/24/2012 Using Github as a Syntax Highlighter for Your Blog or Website
• 04/19/2012 Windows Azure Role Instances are Taking Longer Than Expected to Start

March

• 03/12/2012 Looking for a new job? Tell Github.

February

• 02/15/2012 Introducing GitCV - Show off your programming awesomeness.

January

• 01/24/2012 The First Few Heuristics
• 01/24/2012 Introducing Tipster
• 01/18/2012 End Piracy, Not Liberty
• 01/06/2012 Tweaking Heuristics for Better Results
• 01/05/2012 Lessons Learned: How Do I Run This Locally?
• 01/04/2012 How much do you bill per hour as a freelancer?
• 01/04/2012 A Typical Development Workflow
• 01/03/2012 Intro to Ratcheting Presentation Slides
• 01/02/2012 Assessing Which Risk Heuristics to Implement in the Radiator
• 01/01/2012 Continuous Code Improvement Using Ratcheting

2011

December

• 12/29/2011 A new blog for the new year
• 12/01/2011 Unit Testing JavaScript using BDD and Jasmine

November

• 11/15/2011 Creating Item Recommendations by Finding Users with Similar Taste
• 11/10/2011 Notes From the Field: Breaking Down User Stories
• 11/04/2011 Random Friday Thoughts: Leaving a Legacy Online is Free
• 11/01/2011 Using LINQ to sum up a list of numbers

October

• 10/31/2011 Happy Halloween at Southwest Airlines
• 10/18/2011 How to get a temp directory in any OS with Ruby

September

• 09/18/2011 Quick and Dirty: How to Uninstall All Ruby Gems
• 09/12/2011 Let's make it more difficult to get code into trunk
• 09/05/2011 An Introduction to TDD at 10,000 feet
• 09/02/2011 Using Ruby to get information about a Git or Subversion commit

August

• 08/22/2011 NumberText: Converting numbers into words in C#

July

• 07/20/2011 Some Thoughts on Automated Testing and the Impact it has on Corporate Culture
• 07/15/2011 Later Equals Never

June

• 06/14/2011 Using bind() to Write Even Less Code with jQuery
• 06/13/2011 Mark Cuban shows how to be a leader

May

• 05/26/2011 What You Need to Know to Get Started With jQuery
• 05/17/2011 Using a Content Delivery Network to host jQuery

April

• 04/21/2011 Why Can't All Software Work Like This?
• 04/13/2011 Shortening URLs with uURL
• 04/13/2011 How to Get Your Entire Work Item History in TFS
• 04/06/2011 Generating Random Data with DataBot

March

• 03/14/2011 Generating an XML Document Using LINQ to XML
• 03/10/2011 Where Did My Master Pages Go?! An Introduction to Layouts in ASP .NET MVC 3
• 03/06/2011 Enabling ASP .NET MVC 3 on Shared Web Hosting

February

• 02/24/2011 Converting Numbers Between Bases in .NET
• 02/20/2011 Efficient Page Reloading in ASP .NET
• 02/18/2011 Need a License for Your Project? Try the Open Source Public License!
• 02/16/2011 How to set a default browser when debugging in VisualStudio 2010
• 02/08/2011 Good Practices to Follow Before Checking in Source Code

January

• 01/27/2011 Now I know how they felt when sliced bread came out
• 01/19/2011 Boycott a Meeting Today
• 01/11/2011 Pick Any Two

2010

December

• 12/17/2010 Merry Christmas!
• 12/08/2010 Putting the Three Rules of TDD Into Practice

November

• 11/23/2010 Fixing the "TypeInitializationException was unhandled" exception
• 11/22/2010 Practice Better
• 11/16/2010 Using jQuery to Dynamically Disable and Enable an Element

October

• 10/27/2010 Which Programming Language Should I Use to Build My Application?
• 10/20/2010 10,000 StackOverflow Rep!
• 10/19/2010 A List Apart; The Survey for People Who Make Websites 2010
• 10/10/2010 LoanGeek.net a Simple Online Mortgage Calculator
• 10/06/2010 Validating Input with ASP .NET MVC 2

September

• 09/28/2010 Never Deliver a Prototype
• 09/24/2010 Don't Blame the Person. Blame the Problem.
• 09/14/2010 Google auto unsubscribe helps reduce spam even more
• 09/03/2010 Using Extension Methods in .NET

August

• 08/27/2010 Grouping Radio Buttons in ASP .NET MVC 2
• 08/23/2010 How to properly style HTML tables
• 08/17/2010 A Simple College Prank
• 08/03/2010 Are You a Student? Great, Here's a Free One-Year Amazon Prime Subscription

July

• 07/27/2010 Disallow: /harming/humans. A lesson in Easter Eggs from Last.fm
• 07/17/2010 Creating a Google Custom Search Engine to Search Your Favorite Sites.

June

• 06/12/2010 Setting an MP3 as Your Alarm on the Android
• 06/11/2010 Setting an MP3 as Your Alarm on the HTC EVO
• 06/10/2010 LifeHack; Getting More At Starbucks
• 06/06/2010 Installing Git on Windows with msysgit
• 06/06/2010 A Sneak Peak at Office 2010
• 06/04/2010 Microsoft, What Happened?!
• 06/02/2010 Using Stopwatches and Timers in .NET
• 06/01/2010 Need More Time to Get Stuff Done? Try Sprinting.

May

• 05/23/2010 Iterating Through a Dictionary in C#
• 05/16/2010 How to Add an RSS Feed to Any Website
• 05/12/2010 Share the Awesomeness; Creating Cheap (and Easy) Technical Videos.
• 05/06/2010 Thwarting Spammers With reCAPTCHA
• 05/02/2010 Expressing Many-to-Many Relationships in Hibernate

April

• 04/24/2010 How to Make Sure Your Website is Classified Properly With McAfee TrustedSource
• 04/20/2010 Write Better Code; Using Nullable With C#
• 04/17/2010 Writing a Simple URL Reverser Using C#
• 04/11/2010 Bill Gates Open Letter to Hobbyists from 1976
• 04/06/2010 Handling Foreign Key Constraints in SQL

March

• 03/28/2010 Why Training Classes Suck and 3 Things You Can Do About It
• 03/21/2010 Honing Your Programming Skills with Project Euler
• 03/13/2010 Creating a Fluid Two-Column Layout With a Single Fixed Width Column
• 03/07/2010 Creating Algorithmic Art Using Processing
• 03/01/2010 OSGi Development with Knopflerfish – Part 3: The Execution

February

• 02/28/2010 OSGi Development with Knopflerfish – Part 2: The Code
• 02/23/2010 OSGi Development with Knopflerfish – Part 1: The Setup
• 02/20/2010 Using &if and [Conditional()] to Keep Debug Code Under Control
• 02/17/2010 Sending Email in ASP .NET
• 02/13/2010 Getting Started With Git and TortoiseGit on Windows
• 02/12/2010 Working With Custom Time Strings in C#
• 02/01/2010 Using .NET to Monitor a Directory for Changes

January

• 01/09/2010 Wrapping up DevDays Austin 2009
• 01/08/2010 DevDays Austin: Eric Jones on Python
• 01/07/2010 DevDays Austin: Jonathan Johnson on iPhone Development
• 01/06/2010 DevDays Austin: Peter Mourfield on ASP .NET MVC
• 01/05/2010 DevDays Austin: Jonathan Sharp on jQuery
• 01/04/2010 DevDays Austin: Damien Katz on CouchDB
• 01/03/2010 DevDays Austin: Jason Cohen on Why Code Review Doesn't Have to Suck
• 01/01/2010 myBlog.createNew();