Uninstalling Visual Studio (Really, Really Uninstalling it)

Sometimes Visual Studio updates don’t go as planned. I recently tried applying SP3 to my VS 2015 install only to have to die. Attempts to remove Visual Studio resulted in multiple failures, even when VS ...

Things To Do in Atlanta During Ignite

Microsoft Ignite is this week, and I have a number of friends who are heading down (I'm not going this year, but had a great time last year when it was in Chicago).I've been to Atlanta a couple of times ...

You Win in Locker Room First : Caring

Book Notes from 'You Win in the Locker Room First' By Jon Gordon & Mike SmithCaring Relationships are the foundation upon which winning teams are built - and all great relationships are based on value, ...

You Win in Locker Room First : Commitment

Book Notes From 'You Win in the Locker Room First' By Jon Gordon & Mike SmithCommitment It's not about you It's about committing yourself to your team. Commit if You Want to Commit The hen is involved ...

You Win in Locker Room First : Connect

Book Notes from 'You Win in the Locker Room First' By Jon Gordon and Mike SmithConnect Communicating and Collaborating Leads to Connection A great benefit of communicating and collaborating is that they ...

Karma Test Results with TFS Build

TLDR; 1. Setup the Karma Trx Reporter. 2. Add Publish Results Build Step using ../TestResults/**/karma-tes... as the path. 3. If remote Vm for Jasmine tests, copy the .trx file to the Results ...

DotNetters–it’s time to graph up

I recently wrote an article with Michael Hunger (of Neo4j) about getting your .NET on with Neo4j - http://thenewstack.io/graph... – it’s time guys, it really is time ...

You Win in Locker Room First : Communication

Book Notes from 'You Win in the Locker Room First' By Jon Gordon and Mike SmithCommunicate When there is a void in communication, negativity will fill it. Fill the void with great communication. The Most ...

Mi.com fraud service.

This is first time I tried using Mi.com and place a order on the site. I simply buy a phone. I put my correct address and thing to get it delivered. The phone stay at blue-dart (idiot delivery guys) for ...

Virtual Clone Drive issue after Windows 10 upgrade

Virtual Clone Drive worked great under Windows 7, allowing me to mount an ISO file as if a real CD.Then I upgraded to Windows 10 and things seemed to work as before.I later tried installing Visual Studio ...

You Win in Locker Room First : Consistent

Book Notes from 'You Win in the Locker Room First' by Jon Gordon and Mike SmithConsistent If you are not consistent you will lose the trust your team has in you. When you lose trust you lose the locker ...

You Win in Locker Room First : Contagious

Book Notes from 'You Win in the Locker Room First' by Jon Gordon and Mike SmithContagious Germ or Vitamin C Research shows that when you have feeling in your heart - it goes to every cell in the body - ...

Semaphores for better distribution of work items across threads

As developers we will often find ourselves doing loops/iterations to process hundreds, thousands or even millions of items, e.g. parsing files, screen scraping sites, doing complex computations on multiple ...

You Win in Locker Room First : Culture

Book Notes from 'You Win in the Locker Room First' By Mike Smith & Jon GordonCulture Culture drives expectations and beliefs - expectations and beliefs drive behavior; behavior drives habits; and habits ...

Conference season!

I’ve got a couple of couple of busy months coming up – I’m going to be attending one conference and speaking at three others. SharePoint Saturday Charlotte – Sept. 17, 2016 I attended my first very SharePoint ...

Using Azure Compute Emulator With Windows 7? You Need This

If you're using the Azure SDK Tools higher than 2.7 and Visual Studio on Windows 7 you may see the following:The exact error is a System.Net.NetworkInformati... of"Invalid access ...

Creating Powershell Modules the Easy Way!

Creating Powershell modules isn't hard, but the task has many nuances, and it can be difficult deciding what information is relevant. My own objective was very simple, and I suspect it's the most common ...

This is Lean - Operations Strategy

Book Notes from 'This Is Lean' By Niklas ModigThis is Lean! Develop our definition of lean at the 'fruit level' How Toyota has implemented TPS within the car dealer operations in Japan Lean is an operations ...

This is Lean - The Efficiency Matrix

Book Notes from 'This Is Lean' By Niklas ModigThe Efficiency Matrix The plethora of definitions and usages of lean provides a rather confused picture of what lean actually is. A new framework that we call ...

Calipari - Changing Our Approach

Prior to my time in the world of software development, I spent roughly 12 years coaching college basketball. I enjoyed every minute that I was afforded to be part of coaching a team. Laying out a vision, ...

This is Lean - Welcome to the Wild West - We Call it Lean

Book Notes - This is Lean by Niklas Modig Welcome to the Wild West - We call it Lean Toyota Production System (TPS) Although the term lean was created with toyota as a starting point - lean and TPS are ...

Macrium Reflect Windows PE Rescue Disk Mysterious BSOD resolved

Whenever an individual asks me about the best way to backup their personal computer, I point them to the Macrium Reflect product. It has a free version, making it very easy to try out, and the free version ...

This is Lean - The Art of being Extremely Inefficient

Book Notes from 'This is Lean' by Niklas Modig The Art of Being Extremely Inefficient Superfluous work is correctly perceived as adding value; we have to take care of all the receipts whether we like it ...

Compile Node.js Application

Recently I was working on a project to make our production, Worktile Pro, to be able to on-premise deploy. Besides some code changes one of the problem we were facing is how to protect our source code. ...

This is Lean -Variation on Processes

Book Notes - 'This is Lean' By Niklas Modig The Law of the Effect of Variation on processes. The third law that helps us - the connection between variation, resources efficiency and throughput time. Understanding ...

Things to remember when you work on Responsive web design.

Few years ago When I just start work in office I can hardly see smartphone anywhere. The person sit next to me spent 10,000 or 15,000 in 2010 to get a phone (which is not smart as today). that phone have ...

Diet and how America got it wrong.

Day 4. I started this new diet on Sunday August 22. And haven't been on a diet for 10 years or more.I have steadily gained weight at 274 pounds. After reading Dr Mark Hyman's book "eat fat, get thin. Why ...

Teaching JavaScript

I had the privilege of spending time with four interns at Omnitech this summer. See our @Omnitech Twitter feed to learn a little more about them. Sometimes it's difficult to know how to have interns at ...

Twog #1: Kitchen converge fails for .NET framework/s without winrm elevation

I wanted to start an occasional series of very short posts addressing some specific methodological or practical issue, to share knowledge which I hadn't found widely publicised. Longer than a Twitter post, ...

This is Lean - Processes & Flow Efficiency

Book Notes from 'This is Lean' By Niklas Modig Two Forms of Efficiency Differ in Terms of Dependence Subtle but important difference between resource efficiency and flow efficiency. Fulfils the needs of ...

Blog moved to http://hermit.no

My main blog has been moved to http://www.hermit.noMost of the posts on this blogsite has been moved over, and new posts will only appear on the new site.Below is a list of the new posts that have been ...

Polymer, React and Angular using Visual studio 2015

Web applications are getting more demanding and complex. One way to manage complex functionalities of the application is to break the functionalities into modules. There are many JavaScript libraries which ...

This is Lean - Resource & Flow Efficiencies

Book Notes from 'This is Lean' by Niklas Modig Story of Alison and Sarah both being diagnosed with cancer - From finding the lump to diagnoses - difference of 500x faster for Sarah This is lean is a book ...

How to Find Certificates by their Thumbprint

Let's say you know the thumbprint of a certificate and want to see if it's installed. You can go through and check the properties of each certificate, but it's kind of a pain. You can do it much easier ...

Coaching Agile Teams - 14

Book Notes from 'Coaching Agile Teams' By Lyssa AdkinsAgile Coach Failure, Recovery, and Success Modes I have categorized common failures and successes as ways of operating or Modes. Failure and success ...

ASP.NET Core Blog Series Part 2

Global.json and .NET Core SDK Previously in part 1, I introduced JSON-based configuration files inside ASP.NET Core Web Applications. In this post, I will go over the role of global.json config file in ...

Coaching Agile Teams - 13

Book Notes from 'Coaching Agile Teams' by Lyssa Adkins Surplus Ideas Required Needing a surplus of ideas necessitates a creative environment Team members will not come up with the breakthrough ideas when ...

ASP.NET Core Blog Series Part 1

Introduction ASP.NET Core 1.0 runtime RTM was announced by the .NET Web Development and Tools Blog on June 27th 2016. .NET Core brings about significant changes, and I will start with introducing the new ...

Coaching Agile Teams - 12

Book Notes - Coaching Agile Teams By Lyssa Adkins Carrying Complaints An agile coach helps the team see that conflict is normal - and useful Conflict seething just below the surface is clearly not constructive ...

Exploring Microsoft Azure DocumentDB

In this blog post, I will provide an introduction to DocumentDB by showing you how to create a collection (a collection is a container that stores your data), and how to connect to your collection to add ...

Does Dry Ice Really Cool Five Times Better Than Regular Ice?

I saw an advertisement for dry ice claiming it cools 5 times better than wet ice. Out of curiosity I had to know if this were true, or at the very least see how much better dry ice performs. I thought ...

Meizu’s worst phone quality.

Every Chinese brand come with a once advantage that is called cost-friendly. As these brand continuously fooling Indian customers. Here is my own experience. Meizu m1 note is a good device but it’s a short ...

Angular re-route to login page on user session expiration when user redirects to another route

Goal: Whenever the user redirects to another route via the Angular route provider, check the server if the user is still logged in by creating an MVC controller/action to verify the user session. If the ...

Coaching Agile Teams - 11

Book Notes from 'Coaching Agile Teams' By Lyssa Adkins Coach as Conflict Navigator Patrick Lencioni - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - names fear of conflict as one of the five dysfunctions. Citing is ...

Upgrading a budget tablet to the Windows 10 Anniversary version

In trying to update a Linx 1010 tablet to the Windows 10 Anniversary version I got an immediate error telling me there wasn’t enough disc space. The tablet has a 32Gb SSD and I was told another 16Gb was ...

Coaching Agile Teams - 10

Book Notes from 'Coaching Agile Teams' By Lyssa Adkins Coach as Problem Solver I used to solve problems for team Looking ahead and solving problems I thought were coming even though they hadnt happened ...

Coaching Agile Teams - 9

Book Notes from 'Coaching Agile Teams' by Lyssa Adkins Learning About the Team Launch into learning about the team The guiding lights for this product - the team - are a shared vision and team norms Create ...

.NET thread-pool threads and CLR worker threads

I will try to answer following questions in this article:How many threads are available in .NET thread pool?How long does the CLR take to create a new Non-thread-pool thread?How long does the CLR take ...

Angular - redirect to login after user session expires (including ajax/background processes)

Environment: .Net MVC with Angular v 1Issue: When the user redirects in Angular app or performs any kind of ajax request (searching inside a search box, clicking any button, etc. any event that triggers ...