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Recruitment Agents take note 10 Aug 2013 | 04:12 pm
A few times a week I get emails from recruitment agencies, they are are pretty much all along the same lines. The email seems to be a standard template that tells me absolutely nothing of importance a...
Injecting a Dependency into an IHttpModule with Unity 7 Aug 2013 | 02:46 am
We’re starting a new project, and as part of that we want to get better at certain things. One is unit testing the things we didn’t last time around that were in hard-to-reach places. Pretty much most...
Tip of the Day: Make Outlook 2013 display the Weather in Celsius 1 Aug 2013 | 10:40 pm
At work we’re upgrading to Outlook 2013. One of the new features is that the Calendar will display the weather for the next few days. If you like this, that’s great. However, most of the world uses C...
Tip of the Day: Getting TFS to remember you each time you open Visual Studio 27 Jul 2013 | 12:24 pm
Because the TFS Server where I work is not on the domain, it will prompt you for credentials each time you log in (unless you’ve previously used the web access and checked the “Remember Me” option). I...
Tip of the day: How to tell why your app couldn’t log on to SQL Server 27 Jul 2013 | 01:53 am
When you get a log in failure on SQL Server the message you get back from SQL Server Management Studio, or in a .NET Exception is vague for security. They don’t want to give away too much information ...
Linking Perforce Merge to Git 23 Jul 2013 | 12:17 pm
Git’s built in Merge conflict resolution is awful. Although all the information is there it is difficult to use for all but the simplest of conflicts. Luckily, it is relatively easy to wire up a third...
Getting Tortoise Git to work with GitHub repositories 21 Jul 2013 | 09:19 pm
In this post I’ll walk you through installing Tortoise Git in a way that allows it to interact easily with GitHub repositories. Download msysgit First off download msysgit, a prerequisite for runnin...
Getting Started with AngularJS – The Application Module 19 Jul 2013 | 03:22 am
As with all applications there has to be a starting point. Where does the application start? In AngularJS that starting point is the module. And because a module is, well, modular, you can plug modul...
Getting Started with AngularJS – Bundling the files 16 Jul 2013 | 02:20 am
When you are building AngularJS apps you will probably want to store all your various controllers, directives, filters, etc. into different files to keep it all nicely separated and easy to manage. Ho...
Authenticating Across Virtual Directories 11 Jul 2013 | 02:03 am
If you have an application set up in a way similar to the previous post, which is essentially a domain that contains a number of web application hosted in various virtual directories on the server. I...
