Recently I had to do some debugging of a WCF service. I used trace logs for this, but the output format of the tracelogs is a wall-of-text xml file.
Luckily, Microsoft has created a viewer that facilities working with these …
Read MoreIt's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Recently I had to do some debugging of a WCF service. I used trace logs for this, but the output format of the tracelogs is a wall-of-text xml file.
Luckily, Microsoft has created a viewer that facilities working with these …
Read MoreOver Thanksgiving I decided to convert an old C# maze generator that I’d created a few years ago to HTML5.
The results can be viewed here:
http://robot.jlion.com/maze
I decided to see if I could create an isometric maze. I’m …
Read MoreAs an experiment I decided to create a couple of gears that would appear as an overlay on a web page.
My thinking was that I might use HTML5 to create UI controls that could be …
Read MoreRecently I’ve completed the Microsoft 70-761 and 70-762 certifications. I’ve been using SQL Server for years now, since version 6.0, and I’ve seen it evolve a lot.
There’s a lot of debate about the value of certifications. Forums abound with …
Read MoreI’m setting up a SOLR environment. Here are the steps I’m taking to do this.
I’m using Oracle VirtualBox and Windows 7 pro, with a 60GB virtual hard drive and 4gb of memory. I’m using Chrome as …
Read MoreIt’s October.
One of the tasks I’ve set for myself this month is to document an application that is complex and undocumented. Not only is there no technical documentation for this application, but the specifications and requirements that determine whether …
Read MoreRecently I wanted a countdown calendar to more visibly track progress toward a goal a few years away.
I created this calendar page where you can specify the number of days into the future you would like calendars for, and …
Read MoreEvery so often I work on a project that involves extracting data from excel where it’s easier just to code the extraction up as a macro. For these projects, these two functions serve me well by enabling my macros to …
Read MoreAutomated unit tests are part of many development shops’ basic workflow and have long been considered a best practice.
However they are not well suited for applications that are heavily dependant on sql, and it can be very difficult to …
Read MoreI have some coworkers that haven’t worked a lot with sql subqueries. Subqueries are a great tool, but can be confusing for folks who have limited sql experience. It’s my opinion that, like any code, good naming, proper formatting and …
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