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Ramblings inspired by Silicon Valley
More of my ramblings inspired by HBO’s Silicon Valley I wrote this post about how the first two episodes of Silicon Valley really affected me because I could relate so closely to what the charac...
HBO’s Silicon Valley
HBO’s Silicon Valley I have been avoiding watching HBO’s Silicon Valley for a long time now, I have heard it is funny and that I should watch it. I had knee surgery recently so I decided s...
Why months is a terrible measurement
Introduction There have been numerous times that I have been asked to provide a threshold or measure something in months. I always warn that this is a bad idea, but quickly I am over ruled because wah...
WebForms UnobtrusiveValidationMode requires a ScriptResourceMapping for ‘jquery’. Please add a ScriptResourceMapping named jquery(case-sensitive)
Problem You finished work yesterday, go home and come into the office today only to find out that the web app has certain pages that don’t work anymore for anyone. Awesome, someone screwed somet...
Get CPU and Memory utilization in percentage via PowerShell
The seemingly simple problem I could not believe what a total pain in the ass this was to resolve. I tried getting the CPU and Memory utilization via CMD but that produced incredibly unreliable result...
Sql Server REPLACE function makes expression string NULL when replacement string is NULL
Obscure problem This has happened to me before, but naturally I forgot because it has been a while. The scenario is that you have dynamic SQL and you are trying to replace tags in your SQL string with...
Visual Studio 2017 will not connect pre-existing repository to TFS after TFS URL has changed
Irritating problem There is an amalgam of complaints about this issue already on the product form, you can view them here: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/26914/team-explo...
Simple trick for improving late night coding
The Problem Most developers will code well past the time where the sun goes down at work or at home. The brightness of your screen can really affect your eyes making you tired or causing eye strain. I...