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
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
Cross browser print image javascript
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
gulp clean Error: ENOENT, lstat
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
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
Using the ASP.Net bundler without minification
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
Elasticsearch Tutorial: What is percolation?
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
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
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
Reverse engineer database to custom Code First entity model and mappings
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