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A file versioning helper class in C# to make a backup copy of a file and keep...
While testing my configuration editor app, one of the QA guys asked if it made a backup copy of the file being edited. My reply was “not yet”. And I thought about it a bit and decided to implement...
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Sometimes 42 is the right answer
I was skimming the Codist blog when I read the following One of my favorite data errors was when the latitude would be randomly in the 1000s even though the longitude was correct. MapKit would toss a...
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Bundling jQuery 2.x and jQuery 1.x in ASP .Net MVC and staying NuGet fresh
If you use Nuget to install jQuery into your application, you’ll need to take some extra steps to support multiple versions of jQuery. By default, NuGet will uninstall previous versions of a package....
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Resolving the “The ‘CctSharedPackage’ package did not load correctly.” error...
After launching an Azure project in Visual Studio 2013, I was handed a “The ‘CctSharedPackage’ package did not load correctly.” error message. I was unfamiliar with that one, and a quick check of the...
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Been reading “iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook”
iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook A new Xamarin iOS book has just come out and if you’re programming for the iPhone on the Xamarin platform you will want it on your bookshelf. It’s titled “iOS...
View ArticleUsing Powershell to concatenate files and strip off the headers
#185282284 / gettyimages.com We had a request from a client to merge some files for an import process that we have. As part of one of our applications, we can import delimited (comma, tab, etc)...
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My Hallway Conversations interview is out
Hallway Conversations Podcast A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed for the Hallway Conversations podcast. That interview is now on their site and can be downloaded by your favorite podcast app. I...
View ArticleQuick work around for unresolved Xamarin components in Visual Studio
Have you ever had an unresolved component when using the Xamarin plugin win Visual Studio? You add a component from the Xamarin Component Store and after you installed it, it comes up as unresolved....
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Getting a new dev machine set up, OS X Style
So I’m on my second Macbook. I use a Macbook Pro for iOS development and I was due for a new one. I went from a Late 2011 MBP to a late 2014 MBP. Except now I have a Retina display and a 512 SSD....
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When a UX hack has unexpected consequences or “Why did my iOS app name get...
While testing a iOS app with TestFlight, we noticed that the app name was being truncated. The name was just under the length where iOS truncates it and adds the ellipses. When we compiled the app...
View ArticleGenerating new row numbers in SQL based on a starting value
Embed from Getty Images One of our support people came to me with an interesting task. He needed to add rows from a SQL Server table to another table and populate a row number type of field. That...
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Modifying test data for privacy
Sometimes I get actual live data from a client to track down a bug that only happens with their data. That data will contain student records and we don’t like to have live student laying around. We...
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