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!

Simple Generic CRUD with AngularJS, Parse and Bootstrap

Envisage almost any data-driven user interface, and sooner or later you will probably come across a requirement like: - present the user with a list (of users, addresses, products, etc.) - allow the user ...

Fast Square Root calculation for the BigInteger class in .NET

If you google carefully, it appears there are some resources to help with a common problem.But just for good measure, here's my own implementation, which utilises the fact sq(n) = (n-1)(n+1)+1, and the ...

Data Center Checklist for Recovering From Disaster

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Datacenter disaster recovery plan is an absolute necessity to protect a company’s investment in communications, information technology ...

Death of a Scrum Room

A friend of mine (seriously - a friend of mine - this isn't about me) works at a medium-large company on a medium-large application in a medium-size dev team. A few years ago they had a scrum master and ...

How a Bad Hosting Service Could Ruin Your Business

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 A good website plays a vital role in boosting sales revenue. A stylishly designed website with meaningful and resourceful content ...

SqlDependency Notification database Options troubleshooting

For SQL notifications we followed the steps described in http://dimarzionist.wordpre... it didn't work for our database. The instructions ...

Links for RazorEngine development.

We are using RazorEngine to generate emails based on .cshtml templates. Below are a few links that I used when develop ithttps://antaris.github.io... ...

How to set iOS Pocket to open in Web View.

I prefer to open pages in Web View, because Article View often doesn't show text (in particular source code) properly.However option "Open Best View" usually opens Article View and I needed to change it ...

Insert new line in multiple xml files using Visual Studio

I needed to insert new line after existing one in multiple similar xml files.In Visual Studio open "replace in files" dialog and tick "use regular expression"In "find" escape "/" as "\/" <param name="ExistingKey" ...

Apple to create Feedback Forum.

Recently I've submitted a few suggestions to iTunes support forum. But I was informed, that for suggestions I have to use http://www.apple.com/feedba... form. I feel slightly uncomfortable, ...

Top 5 Android Apps that You Missed in 2015

v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} The fundamental motivation behind building up a mobile application ...

Onshore or Offshore: Where to Develop Your Mobile Application?

If you are a leading Android app development company with a great team of Android app developers, you must be facing the constant dilemma – is it better to develop my mobile application with onshore or ...

Farewell Parse, Hello Mobile Application Development Platforms

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Parse, which is a piece of Facebook recently declared that they are closing down their MBaaS (Mobile-Backed-as-a-Service). Parse's cloud hosting MBaaS will ...

Mobile Apps: 3 Trends the Next Generation Can Look Forward To!

Here are three patterns which any Android app development company and Android app developers must know that are exploiting the mobile transformation to make our lives less demanding, more beneficial and ...

Case insensitive StringHelper.EnsureEndsWith

I've created an extension method for string public static string EnsureEndsWith(this string str,string sEndValue,bool ignoreCase=true) { if (!str.EndsWith(sEndValue, ignoreCase, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)) ...

ScrollToControl helper method for ASP.Net web forms to move position to particular control

I've created a helper method for ASP.Net web forms to move position to particular control /// <summary> /// /// </summary> /// <param name="page"></param> /// <param name="clientId"></par... ...

Stash, Pull, Stash Apply as one git command

I noticed that I often do the same sequence of git commands.UPDATE: dox suggested simpler alternative to use aliasesrun notepad ~/.gitconfigand add[alias]spa = !git stash && git pull && ...

TeamCity Build Number from Most Recent Git Tag + 1 Dash Short Sha

We want a semantic version build number derived from the most recent git tag that follows a three-node semantic version format. We use GitLab and here’s how we do that in TeamCity. 1. Add a Powershell ...

Parse shutdown: Future of Mobile Backend as a Service

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE It was stunning for the whole developers group when Facebook announced shutting down of Parse. Similarly, as other mobile application developers, I was genuinely ...

Parse Shutdown: What next for your backend?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE It was a matter of shock for the entire developers community-Shutting down of Parse. In the same way as other mobile application developers, I was truly shattered ...

Parse Shutdown: Here’s All you Need to Know

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Facebook took over Parse mobile backed-as-a-service (MBaas) in 2013 with lots of promises, hopes and expectations. However, its recent announcement about ...

CloudKit Server To Server

Now this is quite a big deal for me. I spend most of my time in the land of enterprise apps (as you know). Most of the effort it with building the infrastructure to have someones device talk back to one ...

NDepend on a Real Project (Again): My Critical Errors

Following on from my look at the non-critical errors NDepend 6 found on my project, let's look at the more serious stuff - the critical errors. Our old friend the Queries and Rules explorer shows me this: ...

NDepend on a Real Project (Again): My Non-Critical Errors

Following on from last time, let's take a look at some of the non-critical errors NDepend 6 told me about on my project. There were 29 rules violated, and 712 total violations - sounds like a lot but there's ...

Enum.GetNames() for Silverlight

Silverlight don't have Enum.GetNames() method. This will be very handy method, that should go inside our utility class. So, I went ahead and created a method using reflection, code snippet below.public ...

NDepend on a Real Project (Again): Version 6's New Stuff

There's a new version of NDepend (the uber-comprehensive project analysis tool) out in the wild, and the lovely folks over there updated my licence so I thought I'd give it a whirl on the latest incarnation ...

How Bugs Are Really Solved

The number of bugs produced by developers are legion but why are advanced debugging skills still rare in the wild? How do you solve problems if you do not have the technical know how to to a full root ...

New book ALM and DevOps with Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

Announcement - Book on implementing ALM and DevOps using Team Foundation Server 2015 I am delighted to announce that my first book on Team Foundation Server 2015 has now shipped! I have been working with ...

Do You Know How Much Your Azure VM Costs?

You go through the Azure price calculator and figure out everything you think are going to need for your Azure VM and how much each resource will cost you on a monthly basis. You then pick a template from ...

Presenting Bugsnag – The Full Stack Monitoring Tool

Before giving a introduction about BugSnag, let me give a small definition about BugSnag. So, what is BugSnag? BugSnag is used to build an error free applications that efficiently monitors every application ...

Loose wire at bottom of door GE Profile dishwasher

If you see a wire inside your GE Profile dishwasher in the very front, it is your Tub Gasket Spring. Each end of the wire gets placed in the hole in the tub gasket. The gasket goes all the way around the ...

How to use Diagnostic windows in Visual studio 2015 to check the execution time.

Last year Microsoft released VS 15 and add a interesting new feature called “ Diagnostic Tools debugger window” Asy you read on internet when someone trying to show the execution time of 2 different2- ...

5 Important Facts about High Availability Data Center Design

As the datacenters become more and more essential to enterprise applications, there’s a rise in the concerns about datacenter reliability and its availability. Redundancy is considered to be an important ...

Album Art On Raspberry Pi

So some good progress. I wrote a bit of python that reads the Meta-Data from Shairport Sync. This gets me album art, artist title etc. I can send this code to you, if you are interested. Just to make the ...

What I’m Reading–Part 1

What I’m Reading Lately Welcome back! Since I’ve recently found myself with a lot of time on my hands, it’s time to catch up with what’s been going on in the development world. This list is mainly for ...

Powershell ISE missing features

I've recently did some work with PowerShell ISE and missed a few features,that I wish to have in the ISE.1.It will be good to Stop debugger(Shift-F5) icon on toolbar2.In the popup----------------------... ...

How to Choose A Perfect Mobile Application Development Company?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE One of the biggest mistakes made during the mobile app development process, is picking the right mobile app development company which results in massive losses ...

iOS or Android – How to Build your Mobile App Development Team

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Mobile applications are useful for your business or marketing to increase traffic, visibility and revenues. After reading this ...

Generic Resource Leak Detection with ETW and EasyHook

When you are tracking down handle or other leaks you usually need to resort to Windbg which is a great tool for unmanaged code but not so much for managed code because the usual stuff like !htrace only ...

SQL Server 2016 Dynamic Data Masking (DDM)

Masking has been implemented as a lightweight way to hide information from prying eyes for decades now, when you type password you got *, when you view your credit card numbers you see partially masked ...

Water collecting in rubber gasket of GE frontload – WCVH6800

There is a hole in the folds of the rubber gasket on the bottom that allows water to drain which is plugged. Gently pull back the gasket from the drum just enough to allow you to get your finger in there ...

£8 of LCD screen for Raspberry Pi w

So I got myself one of these from Ebay. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3... Its a 320x480 screen that fits to a Raspberry Pi. After a bit ...

Library of Plugins for front-end development

Stas Melnikov has compiled this list of JS and CSS plug-ins. There are numerous such lists, all useful, and worth looking at for inspiration. http://stas-melnikov.ru/lib... ...

ALM and Project Manager Resources Updated

We had a new project manager start and she asked me to send her some information and links that I had come across. I dug through my emails and found some good ones. This is an update to my previous post ...

Batch file that required administrative privileges.

I wanted to call from batch file powershell script that required administrative privileges.I needed to check, if it was started as Administrator and also set current directory where the batch is located.Thanks ...

PowerShell function to delete if exist and create empty folder

In our PowerShell scripts for different folder it's required to delete if exist and create empty folder. To avoid to repeat folder name in three commands I've created a functionfunction DeleteIfExistsAndCreateEmpt... ...

When Mongoose Uses Schema Default Value

In Worktile Pro we are using MongoDB and Mongoose as the backend database with Mongoose Node.js module for ODM (Object Document Mapping) framework. Although Mongoose brings "Schema" back it still provides ...

MS SQL Server - 'sa' user locked out

If you come across a scenario where 'sa' user is locked out and you do not have any other ways to reset or unlock the user. Use the below MSDN reference to get SQL server back and running.https://msdn.micros... ...

PowerShell Grant-EC2SecurityGroupIngress to All Traffic using AWS Source Security Group

I really had to dig for this, but it’s quite simple: $natSG = Get-EC2SecurityGroup -Region $env:AWS_DEFAULT_REGION | ?{$_.Description -eq 'my NAT security group description' -and $_.VpcId -eq $vpcId } ...

setting up SMTP on windows server and getting it up and running

install smtp server features through server manager if its windows server machine or through add windows features from 'add/remove programs' dialog optioneven if you are on iis 7 or anything higher, open ...