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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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-explorer-does-not-recognize-previously-cloned.html The scenario for this […]
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 […]
Tips on onedrive-d and re-installing it
Introduction I recently install Mint Linux on a tiny $200 13″ laptop because Windows 10 was killing its performance since I got it. I got […]
Windows 10 won’t display password box after restart
The stupid problem This was an especially stupid problem. My computer lost power while I was trying to shut it down on UPS power during […]