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!

Rule 1 - My way is always the best... Rule 2 - when it's not see Rule 1.

Have you ever found an architect, developer or designer who was not willing to express that the code, interface and architecture should be standardized, consistent and all code must match the adopted organizational ...

Log files to know about to find failed ASP.NET requests

Your web application is throwing some sort of error or invalid response. Do you know how to troubleshoot IIS or ASP.NET errors on your servers? Luckily, Windows & ASP.NET provide several different ...

Why To Visit Email Support Page

For email users it is very important to know how to access their email account and how to troubleshoot email related issues. Also a brief idea regarding email settings and configuration will be needed ...

Which Steps Will Help You To Unmerge Your Email Accounts

Some email server can allow you to merge that account with another email account which is from a different server. This merge procedure may help you a lot but sometimes it also can give you a lot of trouble. ...

Hide SQL server tables from users and only give them access through views

With self reporting becoming more and more popular, I am often asked how to give users access to data through views and not have them see the underlying tables. This request often comes from the users ...

Tech User Groups in the Charlotte NC area

One of the best things you can do for your tech career is to get involved with local user groups. I’ve been regularly attending some type of user group meetings since the early 2000s. They’ve all been ...

Alexa, make me a sandwich.

Just wrapped up a pretty beefy article on Alexa programming for the upcoming IoT issue of Code Magazine. That was a lot of fun, and has definitely rekindled my interest in IoT and Home Automation. I've ...

Object Recognition in Augmented Reality: Choosing the Right Tool

When you think of augmented reality, one of the key elements to consider is object recognition technology, also known as object detection. This term refers to an ability to identify the form and shape ...

JavaScript mess to cleaner code articles

Please come visit me and read about how to move from a JavaScript mess to cleaner code. I have several steps and a few more to come. All the code is on Github ...

SQL Server: How can I tell if a table is being used?

This statement will display the datetime stamp of the last user scan and the last user update. It will also include the # of user updates on that table.SELECT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) AS DatabaseName, last_user_update,*FROM ...

git, angular2, webstorm

npm install -g angular-clialthough I haven't figured out to implement navbar from bootstrap I created my own.I enjoy the convenience and possibilities of angular2. There is nothing like it.The tooling ...

Mapper vs Mapper: The Performance Plot Thickens

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Can’t connect to Oracle XE after migrating to Windows 10

1) After migrating from Win7 to Win10 I couldn’t connect to XE on localhost (127.0.0.1) 2) I did add XE to listeners.ora 3) LSTNRCTL status does not show service XEXDB in ready status. Solution: sqlplus ...

Apple iPhone is the best

Unless you happen to Google {iPhone stuck saying searching}, then the 13.5 Million results returned may sway your opinion. So, you may want to think twice about that service plan. Apple Store only replaces ...

1,000 Year Countdown?

This was one of the most uncomfortable articles that I read this year:https://www.washington... ...

DAX Studio 2.6.0 downloading issues

UPDATE: Looks like the 2.6.0a release on codeplex is now being flagged by Chrome as malicious. I don't know if it's the file or codeplex.com that is the issue (our older releases with thousands of downloads ...

DAX Studio 2.6.0 Release

We seem to somehow have gotten into the habit of doing pre-Christmas releases every year, so why break with tradition now :) The latest release of DAX Studio has a couple of new features as well as a bunch ...

Angular $broadcast vs. $emit - diffs, pros and cons

Goal: There always seems to be confusion over when to use $broadcast vs. $emit and can be hard to remember the scope affected by which one. Of course this will also have an impact on performance. Details: ...

Testing from Open Live Writer

Lorem ipsum is a pseudo-Latin text used in web design, typography, layout, and printing in place of English to emphasise design elements over content. It's also called placeholder (or filler) text. It's ...

BigQuery QuickRef

Big Data keeps evolving. Stone Age Hadoop was alot of Java bolierplate for defining HDFS access, Mapper & Reducer. This was superceded by Bronze Age Spark, which provided a succint Scala unification ...

Docker REST API Quickref

The Docker CLI commands actually encapsulate Rest calls to the host Docker Daemonhttps://docs.docker.c... daemon listens on unix:///var/run/docker.sock - ...

Consul QuickRef

HashiCorp Consul https://www.consul.io/ provides an easy to use, multi-region Service Discovery / Health-Check + distributed config keyval store. If you have ever hacked away at coding ZooKeeper to support ...

Wow, has it been that long... Really?

Well, what do you do when you are traveling and attending a technical conference and another attendee or a speaker asks for your blog address? Well, if you have ignored your blog in as long as I have you ...

Which Antivirus Installation Procedure Should Be Followed

Technology is a powerful thing and a thing of beauty which help people get their things done easily, simply, quickly and conveniently. But also technology has an evil side. When technologies get misused, ...

First Go Lesson: Variable declaration and passing by reference

I beginning my journey with Go by taking the Go Fundamentals Pluralsight course. It’s great so far. I would love to share some interesting stuff I see about the Go language. Also, it helps me not to forget ...

I’m back after a long hiatus

It’s been some time since I’ve written to this blog. I guess life got in the way and at the time I didn’t feel that I was contributing enough to warrant the time taken to write up my articles. However, ...

13 modern ads that are even more sexist than their "twins" of the era of Mad Men

Only hours after the start of the batch of episodes of Mad Men which will end the series, we look at some examples of modern advertising that are even more sexist and chauvinistic that many of the ads ...

Is it possible to measure feelings in social networks?

When an emotional connection with something or someone is set, that link is becoming stronger and tends to be durable over time. This union if he moves to the relationship between consumer / brand gives ...

Social networks are the "darling" of the marks when launching new products

Traditional means "above the line" were once allies of the big brands when launching new products and services. Not so in the times in which social networks have become the first choice of advertisers ...

How to Install Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu Linux

I must admit I was surprised when I learned that Microsoft SQL Server would be available in Linux. They've been pushing the open source initiative hard, but I didn't expect something this big. Oh yeah, ...

Top 5 Frameworks for Mobile App Testing

Smartphones have undoubtedly changed our lives. In this era of mobile application development, every mobile app developer is looking for amazing tools that help in developing a robust and powerful application. ...

Neo4jClient–Bolt Edition

Neo4j 3.x added a new transport protocol called ‘Bolt’ in essence a binary transmission protocol to speed up connectivity to the database, and with a series of official drivers – get everyone on an even ...

How to use custom method from different namespace in Razor ?

For using method from custom library what you need is adding namespace in views/web.config for example if you want to use linq methods you need to put something like this <add namespace="System.Linq" ...

Moving On to AlignedDev.net

I've been with GeeksWithBlogs.net since November 2011 with my first post "A quicker way to work with Resx files in Silverlight". It has been very good for me and my posts have gotten a lot more exposure ...

.Net Core App Error: Can not find runtime target for framework

This has been annoying me for a while, but as usual the solution was simple. It turns out Visual Studio 2015 removes some key entries form project.json when you update Microsoft.NETCore.App using NuGet ...

Keyboard short-cut to get your lost Google Chrome tabs back

Issues: You just accidentally closed your Google Chrome browser, and oh boy, you lost all your open tabs and windows. Google Chrome has a really helpful short-cut to get them all back. You also have similar ...

Mapper vs Mapper: Performance Revisited

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All you need to know about ASP.NET MVC

The Model-View-Controller or MVC is an architectural design pattern that divides a web app into three main components: Model, View and Controller. The ASP.NET MVC framework acts as an alternative for the ...

Higlights

This weekend….. I’ve realised the truth that Docker is the future. Please take a few moments to inhale docker.com I’ve built a MS SQL 2016, in Docker, connected to from another Container running Swift ...

HTTP logging using CustomTraceListener from Enterprise library

This was more like a debugging related topic for me. The overall knowledge is helpful to understand how the class CustomTraceListener can be useful to build you own tracing mechanism.My use-case was the ...

Can’t connect to Oracle XE on Windows 7

The install went fine. I can connect when I use Start>Oracle XE>Run SQL Command Line, however, I cannot connect when using a third party client. Running tnsping xe or lsnrctl status also shows things ...

Roslyn XsltCompile issues

I recently was in the process of upgrading a VS2013 project to VS2015. I created a new VB Web Application project and it addded the Roslyn compiler components.In the project were several xsltCompiledTransform ...

.NET Standard and Testing Partially Trusted Code

Because libraries written for .NET Standard can run on multiple platforms – with more to come in the future – it's worth considering how or if they run in partially trusted environments. Having implemented ...

Mapper vs Mapper: Performance

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In Depth: How ransomware attacks and how to curb it

Experts point to ransomware as the great security threat of the year. We tell you what it is, how it spreads, why triumphs, where your limits and when to act. This 2016 is becoming the year of online extortion. ...

JavaScript–Adding months or days to a date

Goal: Add moths or days (or other increments) to a date in JavaScript. Solution: var current = new Date(); var threeMonthsInTheFuture = new Date(new Date(current).setMonth(curr... + 3)); for ...

Gunnar spectacles, no Warranty, no sales support.

If you using using your phone, pc and laptop for a long time on work, you maybe search for a solution to make eye strain easy for you. For some people flux work fine. I have installed it on my desktop ...

Things To Keep In Mind Before Hiring Mobile App Developers

With the increasing demand for applications in the digital media and businesses, every business wants to monetize an app for their company. The need to promote a business and with the immense popularity ...

EF Code First Migrations–Create Index with INCLUDE

The problem: Using Entity Framework code first migrations to create a complex index that defines “INCLUDES” as part of the index. Yeah, good luck doing that using Entity Frameworks fluent notation using ...