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My New Amazon Kindle 3: Day 1

I bought a Kindle yesterday.  I have been toying with the idea of buying an ebook reader for a couple of years now, but it hasn’t been until the last couple of months that I have really considered it.  Over the last couple of years, I have built a small collection of ebooks, some that [...]

WcfTestClient Not Starting When Debugging WCF Service

I don’t create enough new WCF services to remember this apparently, but in order to get WcfTestClient to run when debugging a service (hitting F5), open up the project properties and under the run tab, choose Start Action | Specific page and select the .svc file you want to debug. I created a new WCF [...]

HP Elitebook 8450p and Z600 Workstation: A Software Developer’s Review

Note: I started writing this review back in May, but for whatever reason never finished it. HP has configured them a little differently then 7 months ago, but I would select the same options now given my company’s environment. Last year I started the process at my company of ordering new developer hardware for my [...]

Fixing Broken Paging Links in WordPress 3.0 Running on Windows

I posted an article earlier this year with instructions on removing the duplicate index.php in paging links produced by WordPress running on Windows. Today I finally upgraded from WordPress 2.9.3 to WordPress 3.0.3 and it seems that the clean_url() function in formatting.php has been renamed to esc_url(). The fix is still the same. function esc_url( [...]

Managing 301 Moved Permanently Redirects in ASP.NET

I came across a problem recently rewriting a website in ASP.NET MVC. The old site was written in PHP and the URL’s it produced are not going to match the structure I want to use in the new site. I spend a lot of time trying to optimize this site for Google and Bing indexing [...]

Preventing Team Build From Deploying Files After a Failed Build

I just finished debugging an issue with one of my teams build scripts in TFS where all the files and folders on our dev and qa websites were deleted after the build failed to compile. The issue was that someone had changed a project reference to a DLL reference out of the /bin/debug/ folder of [...]

Fixing Encoded HtmlHelpers in ASP.NET MVC 3

In the process of upgrading one of my projects from ASP.NET MVC 2 to MVC 3 RC, I decided to modify all my views to use the new Razor view engine.  The process has been pretty painless, but one thing I noticed was that the dozen or so HtmlHelpers I built were returning HTML Encoded [...]

Preventing Static Content from Being Intercepted by an ASP.NET HttpModule

I am cleaning up some code in one of my projects using NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC and decided to rewrite my NHibernate code to use an HttpModule to create a Session Per Request. When debugging, I noticed that a session was being created for everying incoming request, including for static content like the .js and [...]

Can’t Create a New Team Project

We recently upgraded our Team Foundation Server 2008 servers to TFS 2010 and migrated to new hardware. One of the decisions made by our DBA’s was to move SQL Server Reporting Services and Analysis services onto a separate box from the Application Server. The installation went relatively fine, but several users who used to be [...]

Mercurial (hg) Pull Does Not Show New Changes

Just a quick note. After doing an hg pull, make sure you do an hg update to begin working on the most recent changeset. That’s five minutes I’m never getting back. I am a little terrified that I have been working on Mercurial for over a month now and haven’t run into this yet. I [...]