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SoSlow Data Import for StackOverflow Data-Dump
Just as a quick update post on my on going series of posts on using PLINQ on Stack Overflow data-dump. In my initial post where the core of what I was doing was outlined, at the time the popular (and...
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PowerShell Recursive Rename for an SVN directory
On a large repository, I was attempting to rename the SVN tracking folders that are nested at every directory level, I needed to do this because of a difference in the leading character ‘.’ (period) vs...
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Perfect Password Paragraphs
Over the last few months at least in the streams of information I typically consume, direct issues: Security Now topic of Password Haystacks, xkcs’s comic, Coding Horror, and indirect: Scott Hanselman...
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Tweaking a VS2010 plugin to run JSLint in the command line
We’ve gone to some lengths at work to automate, and have a continuous delivery style pipeline for all things build and deployment related. It’s well on its way, but not ‘perfect’ yet. Maybe perfection...
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CoffeeScript, Jasmine tests with Cassette and Mindscape Web Workbench Visual...
Wow that’s one hell of a title, I couldn’t make it any shorter, but that’s everything we’re dealing with in this post. Some Background We’ve got an ASP.NET MVC 4 web application and we’re using...
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Automating IIS actions with PowerShell – Create Multiple Sites
I’m working towards a more complex SignalR based post, but in the mean time part of the work on that involves setting up a few ASP.NET web apps. If you’re after a more comprehensive guide check out...
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When you need to generate and send templated emails, consider mailzor
Mailzor is a basic utility library to help generate and send emails using the Razor view engine to populate email templates, designed to be quickly pluggable into your .NET app. In our applications we...
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Tracking application errors with Raygun.io
A nice coincidence a few weeks was the news of Raygun going in to public beta crossing my radar. At the time we were fine tuning some things in an application that was in a private beta, we had put a...
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Recovering a docker vm on Windows with Virtual Box
NOTE: this is more of a windows / virtual box problem but the boot2docker experience as will a lot of things is not great on Windows… yet. I was running the docker VM with 2 newly configured...
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IIS, Visual Studio, unable to start debugging on the web server.
Background So this is another logging this issue after some frustrating problem sovling process. This is to help future me when I forget the same windows configuration step in another 8-15 months,...
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