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Freelance software developer in the Cleveland area.

Fixing common high-resolution scaling issues for Windows 10 applications

If you've spent any time on a newer, high resolution Windows 10 machine I'm sure you've come across many applications that don't quite scale right. For example, at the recommended high-resolution settings on my Surface Book, SoapUI is pretty much unusable. Turns out that you can apply a setting to applications that force them

Creating Secure Volumes on Windows 10

A feature of OSX that I appreciated was the ability to create a secured volume for storing personal documents. Since converting to Windows 10, I've found you can get the same feature using Bitlocker. I already have hard drive encryption enabled which gives you that first level of security, but having a password-protected volume

An operation on a socket could not be performed because the system lacked sufficient buffer space or because a queue was full

I recently ran into a scenario where our cucumber tests would fail on our build server if tests within other jobs were being ran simultaneously. About halfway through, a handful of tests would consistently with the error: An operation on a socket could not be performed because the system lacked sufficient buffer space or because

Updating Widows Service Bus Runas Password

I'm running a Windows Service Bus 1.1 farm on my local machine for testing, and recently the services stopped working after I updated my system password. The services were configured to run under my user account so needed to be updated after I changed my password. To do so, we'll need to use Service Bus

Enabling WCF Trace Log

The Tracing feature in WCF gives us the ability capture event\message details as calls are made to web services. Enabling this in IIS can be done fairly easily by selecting the Application and clicking the “Configure…” link in the Manage WCF and WF Services section of the Action panel. From there, go the Monitoring section

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