Essential Tools to find bugs... before they get to production

Developers now have access to free and inexpensive developer tools that can help find and fix many common application problems. These new APM tools are now an essential part of every developer’s tool set. Show me the tools!

1,000 Year Countdown?

This was one of the most uncomfortable articles that I read this year:https://www.washington... ...

DAX Studio 2.6.0 downloading issues

UPDATE: Looks like the 2.6.0a release on codeplex is now being flagged by Chrome as malicious. I don't know if it's the file or codeplex.com that is the issue (our older releases with thousands of downloads ...

DAX Studio 2.6.0 Release

We seem to somehow have gotten into the habit of doing pre-Christmas releases every year, so why break with tradition now :) The latest release of DAX Studio has a couple of new features as well as a bunch ...

Angular $broadcast vs. $emit - diffs, pros and cons

Goal: There always seems to be confusion over when to use $broadcast vs. $emit and can be hard to remember the scope affected by which one. Of course this will also have an impact on performance. Details: ...

Testing from Open Live Writer

Lorem ipsum is a pseudo-Latin text used in web design, typography, layout, and printing in place of English to emphasise design elements over content. It's also called placeholder (or filler) text. It's ...

BigQuery QuickRef

Big Data keeps evolving. Stone Age Hadoop was alot of Java bolierplate for defining HDFS access, Mapper & Reducer. This was superceded by Bronze Age Spark, which provided a succint Scala unification ...

Docker REST API Quickref

The Docker CLI commands actually encapsulate Rest calls to the host Docker Daemonhttps://docs.docker.c... daemon listens on unix:///var/run/docker.sock - ...

Consul QuickRef

HashiCorp Consul https://www.consul.io/ provides an easy to use, multi-region Service Discovery / Health-Check + distributed config keyval store. If you have ever hacked away at coding ZooKeeper to support ...

Wow, has it been that long... Really?

Well, what do you do when you are traveling and attending a technical conference and another attendee or a speaker asks for your blog address? Well, if you have ignored your blog in as long as I have you ...

Which Antivirus Installation Procedure Should Be Followed

Technology is a powerful thing and a thing of beauty which help people get their things done easily, simply, quickly and conveniently. But also technology has an evil side. When technologies get misused, ...

First Go Lesson: Variable declaration and passing by reference

I beginning my journey with Go by taking the Go Fundamentals Pluralsight course. It’s great so far. I would love to share some interesting stuff I see about the Go language. Also, it helps me not to forget ...

I’m back after a long hiatus

It’s been some time since I’ve written to this blog. I guess life got in the way and at the time I didn’t feel that I was contributing enough to warrant the time taken to write up my articles. However, ...

13 modern ads that are even more sexist than their "twins" of the era of Mad Men

Only hours after the start of the batch of episodes of Mad Men which will end the series, we look at some examples of modern advertising that are even more sexist and chauvinistic that many of the ads ...

Is it possible to measure feelings in social networks?

When an emotional connection with something or someone is set, that link is becoming stronger and tends to be durable over time. This union if he moves to the relationship between consumer / brand gives ...

Social networks are the "darling" of the marks when launching new products

Traditional means "above the line" were once allies of the big brands when launching new products and services. Not so in the times in which social networks have become the first choice of advertisers ...

How to Install Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu Linux

I must admit I was surprised when I learned that Microsoft SQL Server would be available in Linux. They've been pushing the open source initiative hard, but I didn't expect something this big. Oh yeah, ...

Top 5 Frameworks for Mobile App Testing

Smartphones have undoubtedly changed our lives. In this era of mobile application development, every mobile app developer is looking for amazing tools that help in developing a robust and powerful application. ...

Neo4jClient–Bolt Edition

Neo4j 3.x added a new transport protocol called ‘Bolt’ in essence a binary transmission protocol to speed up connectivity to the database, and with a series of official drivers – get everyone on an even ...

How to use custom method from different namespace in Razor ?

For using method from custom library what you need is adding namespace in views/web.config for example if you want to use linq methods you need to put something like this <add namespace="System.Linq" ...

Moving On to AlignedDev.net

I've been with GeeksWithBlogs.net since November 2011 with my first post "A quicker way to work with Resx files in Silverlight". It has been very good for me and my posts have gotten a lot more exposure ...

.Net Core App Error: Can not find runtime target for framework

This has been annoying me for a while, but as usual the solution was simple. It turns out Visual Studio 2015 removes some key entries form project.json when you update Microsoft.NETCore.App using NuGet ...

Keyboard short-cut to get your lost Google Chrome tabs back

Issues: You just accidentally closed your Google Chrome browser, and oh boy, you lost all your open tabs and windows. Google Chrome has a really helpful short-cut to get them all back. You also have similar ...

Mapper vs Mapper: Performance Revisited

Update: I have more up-to-date results than these, including updated versions of AgileMapper, AutoMapper and Mapster. I recently wrote a blog on the performance of various object-object mappers, but it ...

All you need to know about ASP.NET MVC

The Model-View-Controller or MVC is an architectural design pattern that divides a web app into three main components: Model, View and Controller. The ASP.NET MVC framework acts as an alternative for the ...

Higlights

This weekend….. I’ve realised the truth that Docker is the future. Please take a few moments to inhale docker.com I’ve built a MS SQL 2016, in Docker, connected to from another Container running Swift ...

HTTP logging using CustomTraceListener from Enterprise library

This was more like a debugging related topic for me. The overall knowledge is helpful to understand how the class CustomTraceListener can be useful to build you own tracing mechanism.My use-case was the ...

Can’t connect to Oracle XE on Windows 7

The install went fine. I can connect when I use Start>Oracle XE>Run SQL Command Line, however, I cannot connect when using a third party client. Running tnsping xe or lsnrctl status also shows things ...

Roslyn XsltCompile issues

I recently was in the process of upgrading a VS2013 project to VS2015. I created a new VB Web Application project and it addded the Roslyn compiler components.In the project were several xsltCompiledTransform ...

.NET Standard and Testing Partially Trusted Code

Because libraries written for .NET Standard can run on multiple platforms – with more to come in the future – it's worth considering how or if they run in partially trusted environments. Having implemented ...

Mapper vs Mapper: Performance

Update: the set of test results in this blog didn't turn out to all be based on fair comparisons - I've updated them and re-measured. I'm leaving this blog in place as it describes the tests. This is the ...

In Depth: How ransomware attacks and how to curb it

Experts point to ransomware as the great security threat of the year. We tell you what it is, how it spreads, why triumphs, where your limits and when to act. This 2016 is becoming the year of online extortion. ...

JavaScript–Adding months or days to a date

Goal: Add moths or days (or other increments) to a date in JavaScript. Solution: var current = new Date(); var threeMonthsInTheFuture = new Date(new Date(current).setMonth(curr... + 3)); for ...

Gunnar spectacles, no Warranty, no sales support.

If you using using your phone, pc and laptop for a long time on work, you maybe search for a solution to make eye strain easy for you. For some people flux work fine. I have installed it on my desktop ...

Things To Keep In Mind Before Hiring Mobile App Developers

With the increasing demand for applications in the digital media and businesses, every business wants to monetize an app for their company. The need to promote a business and with the immense popularity ...

EF Code First Migrations–Create Index with INCLUDE

The problem: Using Entity Framework code first migrations to create a complex index that defines “INCLUDES” as part of the index. Yeah, good luck doing that using Entity Frameworks fluent notation using ...

Factors That Determine Your Mobile App Development Pricing

Mobile apps are portable salesperson that stay on your customers’ devices 24 x 7. They offer round- the- clock visibility on their phone screen, thereby letting you engage better with them and thus grow ...

Why Android App Development is Mission Critical for your Business

Tech innovations and advancements have come a long way and have revolutionized almost every sector. The app development arena is no exception. With increased mobile adoption and emergence of the connected ...

How to enumerate an ENUM (C#)

Goal: You have a C# ENUM and for some reason you would like to enumerate it. Perhaps you would like to return the enumerated list to the client’s ajax call rather than calling the DB table that represents ...

Facebook launches analytic functions for bots in Messenger

Facebook just added analytical support for bots Platform Messenger on Facebook Analytics for Applications , the free tool that allows companies to track customers through applications and websites.In this ...

Aurelia Links

I'm posting new links at my new AlignedDev blogI’ve been following AureliaJs for quite awhile now and I’ve collected a lot of links. Here they are, in no particular order, for you to enjoy. Please follow ...

ProcessAdd bug in AMO 2016

I saw the question below on the MSDN forum about processAdd not working in AMO 2016 and I thought it sounded strange so I did some investigation:https://socia... ...

Powered By WordPress

For a number of reasons, it was decided to migrate the blog content from this site to a new platform. For earlier and newer blog entries, please find this blog located at jimkita.wordpress.com ...

Application Insights is not showing browser exceptions when window.onerror is set

We are using Application Insights from Azure to gain insight into our production database. We noticed that the browser tab was not showing Browser exceptions. This should be working by default as discussed ...

Reposition DataTable Columns

After data bound to DataTable (say dtUser is DataTable name), if we would like to interchange FirstName (first column) and LastName (second column) columns position then we have to do like belowdtUser.Columns["FirstN... ...

How To Get Better Aid Regarding Email Account Related Issues

Receiving and sending emails have become an essential part of people’s day-to day life. Emails and daily works are associated as email has become regular routine. It helps people to connect with the world ...

Some Git help

I shared some information at a Lunch and Learn along with a demo and now I’m sharing it with you. "branching as a tool vs branching as a strategy" ~ Scott a branch is a playground new task = new branch, ...

Entity Framework DbSet Attach() vs Add()

Issue: Two options are available in EF to let it know an object exists, “Attach” and “Add”, not sure when to use which. Answer: “Add” as the verb suggests is for adding new objects to the EF context in ...

Accessing SalesForce Data Using SQL with Enzo Unified

In this article I will show you how to access SalesForce data to simplify data access and analysis, either in real-time or through a local cache, using SQL commands through the Enzo Unified data virtualization ...

SQL Server Statistics Parser

Working as a Data Engineer, one of my key role is to do Query and Server Optimizations, and one of the weird things that we will be seeing is this Nerdy Data Of course this does not automatically show ...

Reset Identity column in SQL table

To reset Identity from 1Below would reset identity column of SQL table and start Identity column value from 1DBCC CHECKIDENT (TABLE_NAME, reseed, 0)To reset Identity from the specified value Say, If records ...