Back in June I dropped this article: https://obscureproblemsandgotchas.com/development/things-to-know-before-using-mongodb/ and it got excellent reception. I was pleased to hear from colleagues of mine that they read […]
WPF project won’t start after upgrade from full framework to dot net core
This problem turned into a horrible time suck for me, so I really wanted to document what happened and how to resolve it because this […]
Yubico Authenticator 6.1.1 poor UX
Rant If you just need the answer skip to the next section. I recently had a very unpleasant experience while attending a conference. I wanted […]
The conflation of ML and AI
As a software developer, it is a huge pet peeve of mine when I hear everyone and their grandmother using the term AI to describe […]
Generic Types and Equals
Gotcha I don’t have to implement/override Equals that often in my classes so I always have a hard time remembering some of the subtleties behind […]
Using Gmail for SMTP access
Introduction When you search for this on google you will find one hundred million results that all pretty much say exactly the same thing. The […]
Could not load file or assembly System.Web.WebPages.Deployment
I encountered this problem when moving from an old machine to a new machine. I vaguely recall having this problem once before, but it was […]
DotNet Core EF migration not working
Problem Here is the basic setup of this problem: You created a .Net Core application and wanted to use .Net Core EF in your application […]
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 […]
ASPCONFIG: Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.
Problem While publishing a web application you get a puzzling error that reads like the following in the output window: 1>C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_compiler.exe -v \ -p C:\Dev\WebApp\obj\Release\AspnetCompileMerge\Source […]