A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Facebook WhatsApp Outage WhatsApp, Facebook's new $19 billion app, goes down, Molly McHugh WhatsApp service has been restored. We are so sorry for the downtime... — WhatsApp Status (@wa_status) February 22, 2014 Other Why…
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Software Driven World Satya Nadella on The Future is Software, JD Meier Other Complaint-Driven Development, Jeff Atwood Introducing Bing Code Search for C#, Ala Shiban Testing Bing Code Search Visual Studio Extension (with video),…
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Secure Mobile Apps How do we know if mobile apps are secure?, Scott Hanselman Other Create Desktop Shortcut to Disable, Enable Windows Firewall, Anand Khanse Tami Reller Talks: Windows 8 at 16 Months, Paul…
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Silverlight Tutorial Silverlight Tutorials Chapter 1: Introduction to Silverlight, Kunal Chowdhury Other Moving the XAML Code Block – Visual Studio 2013, Abhijit Jana Microsoft Research – Bing Code Search: C# Code Snippets On Demand, MS…
Query Stack Overflow - Do you wish that you could run a few queries against a truly huge database? Do you want to tune your queries and see how they match up against some big data? Sometimes we need a big database for research reasons (here's looking at the educators…
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Azure Dev Virtual Machine Create a Dev Virtual Machine in Windows Azure, Bill Wilder Other New Mac OS X Malware Steals Your Bitcoins, Dave Smith Join Thynk Software, marlongrech Microsoft's Data Direction: the Cloud,…
Shrink Bloated Development Databases – Last night I noticed that the space on my C drive was running slightly low. When this happens, I usually go and look in the temp folder to see what unnecessary space hogs are hiding there. After clearing this folder I realised that the amount of data removed from this folder didn’t make much of a difference. I then went hunting. Using a very nifty tool called WinDirStat, I found the problem files. It turns out that some of my development databases were absolutely huge. The LDF files were several gigs in size. Here is what I did to save a little bit of space. (more…)
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Give That Man A Bells This incredibly touching ad is better than most movies, Casey Chan Other Checklist: What NOT to do in ASP.NET, Scott Hanselman How to Save a Class Instance to an…