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Backing up AppHarbor SQL Server databases using BACPACs 9 Oct 2012 | 10:51 pm
One of the regularly requested features for AppHarbor is a way to get full backups from SQL Server databases there. The official line so far has been to use the AppHarbor-SqlServerBulkCopy tool to bul...
Build Views command for Visual Studio 14 Sep 2012 | 08:52 pm
A simple command to add to your Visual Studio External Commands menu that will do a sanity check of all your views (and plain old ASPX pages for that matter): It calls the aspnet_compiler tool on the ...
FIXED: iCloud Photo Stream stops syncing on Windows 2 Sep 2012 | 11:16 pm
I’ve had this happen a few times now, not sure what causes it, but iCloud Photo Stream occasionally stops syncing on Windows 7 for me. The way I have fixed it is to reset iCloud by: stopping the Phot...
Solution for “Package ‘Microsoft SQL Management Studio Package’ failed to load” 5 Jan 2012 | 12:37 pm
I had an odd issue where SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2008 R2 would start up, display the following error message, then exit: Package ‘Microsoft SQL Management Studio Package’ failed to load ...
Once helper for ASP.NET MVC 23 Nov 2011 | 04:29 am
Here’s an ASP.NET MVC HTML Helper that helps in the following scenario. Let’s say you have a partial that can be included a number of times in a view but has a bit of common code that need only be inc...
How to change the font size in Chrome Developer Tools 1 Oct 2011 | 01:36 am
When presenting on JavaScript or jQuery I’ll typically spend a lot of time in the Chrome Developer Tools window at the console. The problem is that, depending on the projection facilities and the reso...
LESS + CoffeeScript for ASP.NET = LessCoffee 30 Jun 2011 | 09:00 pm
As documented in recent posts, I’ve been tinkering getting the LESS and CoffeeScript compilers running on Windows Script Host. I’ve now got round to wrapping these up as ASP.NET HTTP Handlers so you c...
The simplest way to compile CoffeeScript on Windows 20 Jun 2011 | 07:25 pm
tl;dr: You can compile CoffeeScript on Windows with zero third-party dependencies. A while back I did a post on running the LESS.js compiler on Windows using the venerable and ubiquitous Window Scrip...
DDDSW Hecklegate 13 Jun 2011 | 07:36 pm
I went to the free DDDSW developer conference on Saturday in Bristol which was excellent. Kudos to all the organisers and speakers and sponsors who made it happen. One of the sessions I attended thou...
First steps with IronJS 0.2 20 Apr 2011 | 11:40 pm
With the release of IronJS 0.2, the code below is the result of a 30-minute play I had this morning, which shows how easy it is to embed a fully .NET JavaScript runtime in your application by simply r...
