Essential Tools to find bugs... before they get to production

Developers now have access to free and inexpensive developer tools that can help find and fix many common application problems. These new APM tools are now an essential part of every developer’s tool set. Show me the tools!

How to Code Review

This is the second of a two part blog post on code reviews. This first post is on why and when code reviews should be done and some of the soft skills needed. This post is a technical checklist on some ...

Code Reviews

This is a 2 part blog post on code reviews. This first post is on why and when code reviews should be done and some of the soft skills needed. The second post is a technical checklist on some things to ...

VSTS Release IIS Web App Manage task Cannot bind argument to parameter ‘String' because it is an empty string.

I cloned a stage in the release pipeline which had a Web App Manage task. The App Pool specified user name/password look as if it was cloned too as the variable “app_pool_svc_account_passw... showed “********”. ...

(GIT) Remove all local branches except Master

Often I find I retain my local GIT branches long after their usefulness expires. Deleting them one at a time is a hassle, and probably the reason I don’t clean them up more often. Fortunately, someone ...

SQL Server error: "Failed to create AppDomain "master.sys[runtime].224". Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation"

In a nutshell this is due to an incompatibility between .NET and Windows. The most likely candidate for the cause would be an upgrade to either Windows or .NET. Overall, check the Windows and SQL Server ...

Building an On-Demand Grocery Delivery App for Today’s Hitech World

Today’s is a high paced world where people want to maximize the use of technology and hitech services to save more and more of their time which they can devote in other pleasure activities. That’s why ...

How to refresh the UI in Xamarin without stop debugging Xamarin live reload

Working on xamarin project and looking for hot reload ? Look at Xamarin Live reload. For using Xamarin Live Reloadsimply go to Extension Manager search for live reload and install the xamarin live reload ...

How to Reset Your MS SQL Password if You've Forgotten your SA password, and your Windows Account is locked out

Repeat this 10 times, DO NOT FRET. Trust me, at first I really freak the hell out of me for unable to do anything, even though what I need to do is just to access my local database as per normal, like ...

Hello world in express JS

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What is React Native and How to Animate Header Titles in this?

Nowadays mobile phones have become the integral part of our lives and when it comes to Android development or iOS development means when you are looking for an app creator then businesses get confused ...

What are the Important Tools for Xamarin App Development?

Right now Xamarin is one of the most popular framework to develop cross-platform apps. Xamarin development enables you to develop Android, iOS and Windows mobile applications using Visual Studio and C# ...

Introduction to ASP.NET MVC 5

Recently I make few videos on introducing ASP.NET MVC5 ...

Why cross platform mobile development is in trend right now?

With the coming of different mobile platforms around the world, the mobile app development companies are gaining a lot of traction and clients. Most of these clients are the business owners who are looking ...

#PrimeDay is back up!

Don't forget to check out all the great Amazon Prime Day Deals today! I've always been a huge fan of Amazon's error pages, except for today lol If you're a Software Engineer, take a moment to be thankful ...

How to fix Visual Studio Package not restore ?

Today I was busy working in one of WPF apps that I am holding from last few days. Everything is going on, I have made Release build 2 days ago 11 of July.Suddenly I need to give it to another person. I ...

Can't drag large MSG files into Outlook

I have a manual process where I:Drag emails from Outlook on PC1 to a shared folder, creating *.msg message filesDrag message files from shared folder to Outlook 2010 on PC2, creating emails.There's a resource ...

Top Reasons Why Your Small Business Needs a Website

Today’s world is an internet and mobile phones powered world. Now most of the businesses have online websites and a large number of people and customers access these websites not only from the desktops ...

Ajax Post on iOS Safari not working? Its the cache!

Not sure when this took effect, but a simple public facing web application we wrote using jQuery.ajax for doing our form posts nicely started not working on iOS devices. The reports came in occasionally, ...

BizTalk jobs on SkyHive

It was a long road on the BizTalk mountains and rivers. Now I am doing Machine Learning in the SkyHive. This is a startup which makes very interesting things in the job search.We are in the Beta now and ...

SQL Server: How do I get the size of a database?

use [databaseName]goSELECT database_name = DB_NAME(database_id) , log_size_mb = CAST(SUM(CASE WHEN type_desc = 'LOG' THEN size END) * 8. / 1024 AS DECIMAL(8,2)) , row_size_mb = CAST(SUM(CASE WHEN type_desc ...

Top 6 Java Web Development frameworks for mobile apps

Java is certainly a mainstream programming language which is an essential part of the most famous Android app development. It is the most popular programming language used for Android app development like ...

SQL Server: Find existing temp tables on a server.

-- query the server to examine all the existing temp tablesselect name, object_name(object_id) As ObjName,* from tempdb.sys.objects where name like '#%' ...

Top Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Mobile App in 2018

If you are running a business and your business still does not have a mobile app then you need to get one fast. Nowadays having an online presence through website is no longer sufficient, as online activity ...

SQL Server: How do look at the dataypes/lengths of columns in a temp table?

To view that information, there are 2 primary ways:select * from tempdb.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.C... where table_name like '#MyTempTable%'select * from tempdb.sys.columns where object_id = object_id('tempdb..#mytempt... ...

Simple Image Manipulation - Brightness

Last time I played with played with Pixels - Color Effect with HTML5 and JShttp://geekswithblogs.net... this short post, let's go back to basics. Let us try ...

Playing with Pixels - Color Effect with HTML5 and JS

I've been playing with HTML5 and JS when I feel bored, and I love taking pictures. So Tried putting them together in this mini project <3 SOURCE CODE - https://jsfiddle.net/Humpre... ...

SQL SERVER: How do I find all the tables that have had an update in a database?

This query will bring back the last user update to every table in the database you're connected to.use [dbname]goSELECT last_user_update, t.name FROM sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats us JOIN sys.tables t ON ...

Visual Studio Code - On Mac Talking to SQL Server

So, this has taken a whileOnly tonights install of Visual Studio Code update (aka after Build Keynote???)... I can finally run SQL Server queries from Visual Studio Code on my Mac. I followed this guide ...

Cloud Friday Nashville–May 2018

I had the good fortune to attend, and speak at, Cloud Friday Nashville on May 4th, 2018. It was a great event and I hope to attend next year as well. Here’s my presentation: How Atrium Health Implemented ...

Power BI Presenting JSON data from SQL 2014 Table

SQL 2016 or later and SQL Azure both support JSON function in native SQL. However, people using SQL 2014 or below are out of luck.However, if we just need a quick report, PowerBI can provide that functionality. ...

SQL Remove Duplicates without Using Temp Table or Modifying Existing Table

Up until now, the way I understood to "fix" a table with duplicate data and no primary key or unique key is either:Modify the existing table, add a column and populate with unique key data, then delete ...

oData and Big Floats

Today, I made an interesting discovery.I’m synchronising data to Microsoft NAV, from an iOS app, using oData.My iOS app, makes JSON requests to pull/push records in and out of NAV.Todays discovery was ...

How to deploy the dialogflow bot to Facebook app.

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Google to Launch new Gmail Design Help Of Custom Web Development

Recently Google has sent an email to its G Suite Customers to tell them that the company has been working since long to launch a brand new version of Gmail for the web. Other than a fresh design, Gmail ...

postincrement and preincrement in c#

Today I was working in C# and I write a code like this. Read more ...

Scikit Learn Quickref for Machine Learning

Scikit LearnScikit-learn ( http://scikit-learn.org ) is a free software Machine Learning lib for the Python programming language. It features various classification, regression and clustering algorithms ...

How to check crash issue in C# apps ?

Recently I was working on a C# application. Suddenly someone asks “Are you able to remove all the dll in bin folder”. read more ...

Trane XE70 furnace wont start

I have a 20 year old Trane XE70 that is still going strong. But it has needed parts and they are easy to replace. 1) if you turn on the power and it cycles through you should see a glow of the ignitor. ...

All you need to know about Android Wear SDK and Emulator

People are always on the lookout of new features and updates related to the most advanced devices, especially by the giant industry leaders like Android and Apple Inc. as well. In this write up, we will ...

Evolution of the World Wide Web From Web 1.0 to Web 5.0

WWW (The World Wide Web) “www” stands for the World Wide Web which is a part of the internet. It links and connects documents and websites together which can be searched on web browsers like Google Chrome ...

Time To Reboot

It has been nearly six months since I blogged last. Thankfully this means I have been busy working on client projects. It is a new year and just back from spring break so I think it is time to start digging ...

Windows to Go With the Spyrus USB Drive

What we need is a good bootable live USB stick for Windows. I've said this many times over the years, and hacked together things to make that very thing happen, but nothing that worked really well. So ...

How to implement AMP on your website.

Recently I used AMP on one of my website. The site was already live and I need to implement the AMP functionality on the website. In your post page you define a amphtml tag which have url of the amp page. ...

Benefits of customized .NET Application Development

Websites are the most desired tools of promotion for every brand and company that wants to reach more audience and increase the potential of the lead generation. Well, there are many options to choose ...

Which Distribution of Linux Should I Use?

I'm often asked this question: "hey, you're a Linux guy right? What Linux should I use? I have this friend who recommends _____ and I want to know what you think?" I usually reply with the same question: ...