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Cultural age of the United States 22 Aug 2013 | 04:35 am
I find it weird that people say that the US has only 200 years of culture and history when compared to countries in Europe of Asia which has thousands of years of culture and history. If you’re going ...
iPhone exchange setup connection to server failed error 26 Jun 2013 | 05:03 pm
I got a replacement iPhone 5 today and tried to setup my exchange account. It failed and all I got was a cryptic ‘connection to server failed’ error alert box. This error could mean a lot of things an...
Tips for running a tech startup 19 May 2013 | 02:39 am
Do not forget that your most important task is to focus on creating a great product. No amount of marketing spend will make up for a crap product that no one really wants to use. Make what you know —...
Platform.VirtualFileSystem 3 May 2013 | 10:17 pm
I’ve just open sourced my Virtual File System library for C#. It provides a uniform interface to any type of file system providing interfaces for navigating, reading, writing, hashing and network acce...
The ridiculousness of Microsoft .NET JSON dates 30 Apr 2013 | 08:49 pm
If you’ve seen JSON date times as formatted by WCF you’ll notice that they’re formatted like this: /Date(700000+0500)/ The first number represents the number of seconds 1/1/1970. The second number re...
London startup tips from a tech guy 29 Mar 2013 | 11:12 pm
Here’s some startup tips from a tech guy who’s been working in a London startup (owned by a larger parent corporation) for the last few years. Start your company with like-minded people who share your...
IIS Output Caching and Accept Header 3 Mar 2013 | 12:13 am
After a bit of testing I found out today that IIS Output Caching will not work unless the Accept request header includes */*; Most browsers include this by default but if you make HTTP calls yourself...
A simple pattern for cancelling GCD blocks 8 Feb 2013 | 05:31 pm
Sometimes when using GCD, it’s useful to cancel a block that’s already been placed on a queue to be processed. You could have a field named “isCancelled” that the block can check for but if you have l...
Mounting Linux software raid using a consistent device name 7 Feb 2013 | 07:59 pm
It’s recommended these days to use the UUID of a mdadm based raid partition in your fstab. This is fine for a single server but if you have dozens of identical servers, it’s a pain to have to maintai...
Renumbering GPT partitions in Linux 27 Jan 2013 | 09:52 pm
Parted doesn’t provide an easy way to renumber your partitions after you delete one and fdisk doesn’t support GPT. Fortunately gdisk can do this relatively easily: sudo gdisk /dev/sdc p (print/show) s...
