Almost two years ago, I wrote about a Visual Studio macro that allows you to change the Target Framework version of all projects in a solution. If you don’t know, the Target Framework version is what tells the compiler which version of the .NET Framework to compile against (more information is available here) and can be set to one of the following…
New
Self-Service Driven Provisioning of Pluggable Databases
Today
Oracle
announced new capabilities that support managing the full lifecycle
of pluggable database as a service in Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c
Release 3 (12.1.0.3). This latest release builds on the existing capabilities
…
Recently when you search for me on Google several URLs from my blog have started showing up, instead of just the main URL.
1) https://scotthelme.co.uk/
2) https://scotthelme.co.uk/category/wifi-pineapple-2/?
3) https://scotthelme.co.uk/wifi-pineapple-karma-sslstrip/
Is there a reason this starts happening? I have contemplated doing something to…
A couple of weeks ago, the Belgian Techdays were held in Antwerp. Together with Scott Hillier I presented the SharePoint pre-conference sessions (watch them online over here, search for pre-conference or SharePoint). Even though Belgium is not a very big country, the Microsoft team managed to get some high profile speakers like Anders Hejlsberg…
This is not really a question on how to develop all three, I know various cross platform ways and so on. But I more want to know from developer standpoint how hard it is to basically develop iOS, Android and web apps?
I am currently in my first job as a mobile/web developer. I have already developed my first iPhone/iPad app and now I have to…
Register now at http://www.stlouisdayofdotnet.com/registration.aspx The Date This year's conference will be held on Friday and Saturday, August 20-21, 2010, at the Ameristar Conference Center in St. Charles, Missouri. Sessions will begin at 8:00 a.m. and run through 4:30 p.m. on both days. Registration and sign-in…
I have Ubuntu 12.04 running in a Virtual Box virtual machine, on my Windows 7 32bit system. It has been working great, except that the backtick/tilde button sticks(not physically).
When I hit the backtick button it keeps repeating until another input button is pressed. So if I press the spacebar while the backtick is repeating, it…
Taleo World resulted in lively, positive conversation on social media, with 1,595 references on Twitter. Conversation was driven by users live-tweeting about the keynotes, product sessions/demos and customers. The Wednesday morning keynote resulted in a spike, and users responded positively to executive’s view on HCM and the…
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/michelotti/archive/2013/07/24/fun-with-the-chrome-javascript-console-and-the-pluralsight-website.aspxI’m currently working on my third course for Pluralsight. Everyone already knows that Scott Allen is a “dominating force” for Pluralsight but I was curious how many courses…
I was fighting with this issue today... Visual Studio was taking FOREVER to load the symbol files (.pdb) in order to start debugging. It seems if you clear all of your break points, the issue is corrected. Hope this helps someone.
The One Skill All Leaders Should Work On | Scott Edinger blogs.hbr.org
Assertiveness, according to HBR blogger Scott Edinger, has the "power to magnify so many other leadership strengths."
When Your Influence Is Ineffective | Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe blogs.hbr.org
"Influence becomes ineffective…
[This is actually a response to Bill’s blog post, but since it isn’t possible to leave this as a comment on his blog it’s a post here.] There are many different ways to implement the Dispose pattern correctly. Some are (in my opinion) better than others. In Bill’s blog post he presents a particular pattern, which is…
Corrupted state exceptions are designed to help you have fewer bugs in your code by making it harder to make common mistakes around exception handling.
A very common pattern is code like this:
public void FileSave(String name)
{
try
{
FileStream fs = new FileStream(name, FileMode.Create);
}
…
I have previously talked about Microsoft StyleCop. For those that might not know about it, StyleCop is a source analysis tool (different from the static analysis that FxCop performs) that analyzes the source code directly. As a result, it focuses on more design (or style) issues such as layout, readability and…
We recently ran a live webcast on Strategies for Managing Oracle Database's Lifecycle. There were tons of questions from our audience that we simply could not get to during the hour long presentation. Below are some of those questions along with their answers. Enjoy!
Question: In…
First a bit of background. I'm coding a lookup from Age - Rate. There are 7 age brackets so the lookup table is 3 columns (From|To|Rate) with 7 rows. The values rarely change - they are legislated rates (first and third columns) that have stayed the same for 3 years. I figured that the easiest way to store…
This week Scott Cate came to South Florida and gave a great talk on his Visual Studio shortcuts and how he uses them. You can find a collection of short video’s he has done at: http://scottcate.com/tricks/ Also you might want to check out Sara Ford’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/default.aspx, she…
This is not really a question on how to develop for both, I know various cross platform ways and so on. But I more want to know from developer standpoint how hard it is to basically develop iOS, Android and web apps?
I am currently in my first job as a mobile/web developer. I have already developed my…
Now that Visual Studio 2010 has been released, there are a lot of extensions being written. In fact, as of today (May 1, 2010 at 15:40 UTC) there are 809 results for Visual Studio 2010 in the Visual Studio Gallery. If you filter this list to show just the free items, there are still 251 extensions…
Watch this on-demand webcast and discover how Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g's
unique management capabilities allow you to efficiently manage all stages of
Oracle Exadata's lifecycle, from testing applications on Exadata to deployment.
You'll learn how to:
Maximize and predict database…
I'm trying to determine a way to distribute software updates for a hosted/on-site web application that may have weekly and/or monthly updates. I don't want the customers who use the on-site product to have to worry about updating it manually I just want it to download and install automatically…
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/sdorman/archive/2013/10/18/visual-studio-extensions.aspxAs a product, Visual Studio has been around for a long time. In fact, it’s been 18 years since the first Visual Studio product was launched. In that time, there have been some major changes…
Possible Duplicate:
Should I bother supporting IE6?
I'm thinking about IE6 support and when to give up on it.
Do you have a percentage of total visitors figure in mind for when to drop support? Would you let a trend develop past this figure or are you just going take the first…
I'm considering using a Java stored procedure as a very small shim to allow UDP communication from a PL/SQL package. Oracle does not provide a UTL_UDP to match its UTL_TCP. There is a 3rd party XUTL_UDP that uses Java, but it's closed source (meaning I can't see how it's implemented,…