I contributed a Getting Started Guide to the open source jQuery Code Snippets project earlier today. Honestly, it doesn’t take much to install the bits and reap the benefits of the snippet collection, but I ran into a minor snag (as did another commenter) and I figured that documentation couldn’t hurt. Of course, the jury [...]
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Apparently customers wanted to know why Microsoft had two services – Windows Live Sync and Live Mesh beta – with similar features. In response, Microsoft has announced that Live Mesh will soon be replaced by the new Windows Live Sync which will be built out using the Mesh technology. I have been using Windows Live [...]
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I have previously explained how to properly configure your web deployment projects to replace web.config sections. The example I used was pretty standard – swap out connection strings to support the specific deployment environment. It worked great, right? Well, today this technique complete fell short for me as I was dealing with a custom section. [...]
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I bounced around between projects a lot last week. What each project had in common was the need to validate at least one SQL connection. Whether you have SQL tools like SSMS installed or not, this is a very easy task if you are aware of the UDL (Universal Data Link) files. Create a new [...]
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I’ve been using the T4Toolbox to help generate my ASP.NET MVC models and scaffolding for a while now. Another developer tried using my generator project last week and ran into troubles due to a breaking change around the RenderCore() and TransformText() methods in support for VS 2010. If you upgraded to the latest version of [...]
I shared this script with a coworker yesterday. It doesn’t do much; it recursively deletes .svn folders from a source tree. It comes in handy if you want to share your codebase or you get in a terrible spot with SVN and you just want to start all over. Just blow away all svn artifacts [...]
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IIS7 introduced the option to run your application pool as AppPoolIdentity. With the release of IIS7.5, AppPoolIdentity was promoted to the default option. You see this change if you’re running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. On my Windows 7 machine, I’m able to define my Application Pool Identity and then create an associated [...]
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Most of the time, I’m the guy who authors the show notes for the Herding Code Podcast. The workflow is relatively straight-forward: Jon shares the pre-production audio with me, I compete my write up and then ship the notes back to Jon for publishing with the edited audio. All file sharing is all done with [...]