Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Things I've learned (forcibly) on 2014-12-09

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There are database systems that are actually implemented using the Julian (sort of) calendar. Why ?! It is perfectly legitimate to use sc...
Saturday, December 06, 2014

Adding less to your MVC 5 project

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I'm going to have to just redirect to this post , because I'm in a rush. Hopefully it's still around when you read this. Note:...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Creating Azure Services with Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1

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Download and install Visual Studio 2013 Download and install the Web Platform Installer, v5.0 or greater From the Web Platform Installer...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Correcting the default check-in action for associated work items in Team Foundation Server

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I've found that it's a giant pain in the ass in TFS when associating work items to checkins because the default assocation action is...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Regarding pre-test invocation scripts when deploying to a Test Agent with TFS

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So, I learned something interesting about TFS Test Agents today and they way they handle pre-test invocation scripts when running tests on a...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

A huge annoyance in Windows 8 store apps

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Apparently Bindings are no longer TwoWay by default as they were in WPF. They're now OneWay, which was a huge annoyance and wasted a sol...
Monday, September 01, 2014

Creating a WPF app with Microsoft Prism Framework 5

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To get started, do the following: follow the tutorial provided by Microsoft . follow the followup tutorial for linking views and view mo...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Getting an "RPC endpoint not found/not listening" exception when connecting to a remote machine with PowerShell

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Lately I've been dealing with a lot of remote management for the purposes of automating our deployment process for the product on which ...
Saturday, August 09, 2014

Creating a certificate chain of self-signed certificates for development / testing / private environments

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As anybody who's ever tried to develop secure services with SSL knows, it's expensive to buy trusted certificates from a certificati...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Retargeting a Windows 8 application to Windows 8.1

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Apparently, fuck Windows 8. So says everybody. Including Microsoft. That's why at some point you're going to have to retarget your W...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Making TFS builds consistent with desktop builds when invoking MSBuild directly on a .*proj file

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As it turns out, MSBuild has more than a few quirks when being invoked through TFS compared to being invoked through a command line or from ...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Getting code signing to work with ClickOnce on a TFS Build Agent

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Code signing is a giant pain in the butt. You have to : Obtain the certificate for signing the code by: buying the certificate from an ...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Converting an existing Windows Store app to using the Prism Framework

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I began converting an existing Windows Store App to using the Prism Framework provided by Microsoft. However, I'm running into the follo...

Creating my first Windows 8 store app

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As you may or may not be aware, there are multiple types of applications that can be created for Windows 8: Windows store apps, which use...

Beginning to work with Windows Store apps

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I really hate Windows 8. I think the majority of the applications that have been written for it are complete pieces of shit, for the followi...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Resolving ssh: connect to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22: Connection refused

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There are a number of reasons why an SSH server may fail to allow a client to connect. Many aren't readily apparent, even from tailing s...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Apache fails to handle requests with "libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work"

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I recently had an apache2 server go down while I was using it. I still don't know what caused it, but I do know how I fixed it, thanks t...
Thursday, April 03, 2014

Waiting for the network to be up on the BeagleBone Black

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It finally hit me today as I was reading over this article , and it should have hit me sooner. The article mentions that in order to get pas...

ImportError: No module named pkg_resources when trying to use pip on the BeagleBone Black

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I've recently been trying to use Python on the BeagleBone Black, for a number of reasons: I want to learn a new language which could ...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Undefined reference to `log' when compiling on Ubuntu 13.10 with gcc

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After I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10, I inexplicably started getting errors in a build that had been perfect for a very long time. It turned out...