I have been working with MongoDB for the past year or so and I feel as if I have earned the right to have an […]
IIS application pool exploit
What? That’s what I said too when I first discovered the exploit. I didn’t think it was so easily possible to extract usernames and passwords […]
NuGet package references are not found after getting latest from a new branch in TFS
NuGet is incredibly fragile and brittle One of the reasons I don’t like using NuGet together with TFS is that it always manages to get […]
Surface Pro 2 network adapters / wireless drivers knocked out after 10/20/2015 windows 10 update
Surprise Surprise Wow, another problem with the Surface Pro 2? No way! Never happens! The most recent windows update on 10/20/2015 has completely decimated the […]
ASUS P8Z68-V GEN3 – Rear bezel USB drivers are knocked out after Windows 10 update
Microsoft made a whoopsie Last night (10/17/2015-10/18/2015) I get a notification that there will be updates, “Okay, good to know – my computer will restart.” […]
ASUS P8Z68-V GEN3: Video rendering choppy and PC slows to a crawl
Had a scare last night… Out of no where, after restarting my computer after installing some windows updates my computers performance went to shit. My […]
How to use Excel and tSQL to help you Generate Code
Introduction It’s amazing to me the reactions I get when I show people seemingly simple tricks on how to automate or generate code and/or script […]
TSQL: Passing objects to stored procedures via XML
Introduction This is a subject I have heard about repeatedly, but I never bothered looking into it until recently. I was told that writing hard […]
Entity Framework: Basic CRUD Operations
I like Entity Framework (EF), I think it is a little too rigid sometimes and it would be very nice if there was a very […]
UPDATE SELECT FROM JOIN
This is something that I don’t do often, but it pops up every now and again. I always forget how to do it, so I […]