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Today in Tech – Tuesday, Dec 11, 2018

by Dirk Strauss - December 11, 2018December 11, 2018 0908

New Visual Studio IntelliCode Visual Studio IntelliCode supports more languages and learns from your code, Visual Studio Blog More Cool Stuff Using the Microsoft Azure Mobile app for remote administration, Mohammed Moinudheen Should Developers Write Software Implementation Plans?, Pavel Pavlovsky How to consume a WCF SOAP service in ASP.Net Core, Joydip

Today in Tech – Monday, Dec 10, 2018

by Dirk Strauss - December 10, 2018December 10, 2018 11063

Tech Changed Air Travel Technology That Changed Air Travel, Taimur Abdaal More Cool Stuff Git v2.20.0, Junio C Hamano How to Shrink All the Log Files for SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #203, Pinal Dave SQL SERVER – Relating Unrelated Tables – A Question from Reader, Pinal Dave

Apple admits iPhone X display module issues

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by Dirk Strauss - November 12, 2018 21648

iPhone X Display Issues - I have an iPhone X. It is a fantastic device. Unfortunately it has come to light that it might exhibit touch issues stemming from a possible component failure on the display module. In short, Apple is saying that there is something on the display module

Siri Tip Calculator Shortcut

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by Dirk Strauss - September 30, 2018 12605

Siri Tip Calculator Shortcut Siri Tip Calculator Shortcut - When iOS 12 launched for the general public, I was somewhat excited to use the Shortcuts app. Having used the Workflow app before, I was hoping to see Apple's mark on an already incredible app. For those of you that would like to

Cryptography in .NET Succinctly

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by Dirk Strauss - March 17, 2018 23854

My latest Syncfusion eBook The need to convey information in a secure manner has existed for thousands of years. For as long as people have needed to communicate, other people have wanted to undermine any efforts to secure that information. You might think that you don’t have information important enough for anyone to want

Windows Task Manager – Resolve High Disk Usage

by Dirk Strauss - May 26, 2017December 14, 2018 916081

Windows Task Manager - Resolve High Disk Usage The other day I was debugging an ASP.NET Application, and I noticed that the build and debug was really slow. I then noticed that my laptop fan was spinning continuously, and that this seemed to be related to the debug session. I stopped

C# 7 and .NET Core Cookbook Published

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by Dirk Strauss - May 3, 2017November 22, 2018 410183

C# 7 and .NET Core Cookbook: I have recently published a book on C# 7 that takes a look at the new features in C# 7.0 as well as a host of other goodies for your developer palate. C# 7 and .NET Core Cookbook It takes a look at all of the

Sad Facebook Reality For Many People

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by Dirk Strauss - October 19, 2015November 2, 2016 03841

How Facebook Influences People Sad Facebook is sad and it wants you to be happy.... well perhaps not, but it sounded cool saying that. I have come across very few people that don't use Facebook. Some might not have their own account, but they invariably use their spouse's Facebook account. Then

Being Almost Blind

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by Dirk Strauss - October 14, 2015July 11, 2017 23179

Being Almost Blind - Some of you might have noticed that the updates to this blog have been a little sparse the past two weeks. There is however a good explanation for this. On Friday, October 2nd I woke up and noticed that I could no longer see properly. I

CloudBerry Backup Desktop Edition by CloudBerry Lab

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by Dirk Strauss - September 24, 2015November 2, 2016 03505

CloudBerry Backup There is one thing in this world that many people fail to do. That is maintain regular backups of important files and documents. I often wonder why this is? I have come to the conclusion that many people don't do it because it is a hassle. We often don't