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
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
Hiding sections of a page when printing is a fairly common and trivial task with the help of a little css. For example, hiding a page header and footer only takes a few lines. @media print { .header, .footer { display: none; } } But what if you want to only print a
I have a gulp task that uses gulp-clean to wipe the contents of an output directory before other tasks are ran. It seemed to fail 50% of the time, throwing an exception with the message ‘Error: ENOENT, lstat ….’. The problem turned out to be my use of wildcards in the src. In the original
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
The bundler shipped with ASP.Net works pretty well with minimal configuration. In short, when the debug flag is off the bundler will do a few things for us: Bundle related files into single web response Apply minification transformation such as shortening variable\method names, trimming whitespace, removing comments, etc Add a version token to the querystring
One of the lesser known features in Elasticsearch search is percolation. It’s commonly referred to as “search in reverse” and it allows you to index queries and, at a later time, percolate a document to find queries that it will match. Sound a bit confusing? It took me a while to wrap my head around
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
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
It's really cool to see how far code-first support within Entity Framework has come over the last few releases. It's extremely freeing to be create our own POCOs and custom mapping classes, which nostalgically remind of past projects with FluentNHibernate. And we aren't tied down to edmx files (and nasty merge conflicts that come with
