The Daily Six Pack: December 4, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Facebook Engagement Statistics 7 powerful Facebook statistics you should know for a more engaging Facebook page, Belle Beth Cooper Other What I Use: December 2013, Paul Thurrott iOS 7 Inspired WhatsApp Updates, Lifts Itself from…

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The Daily Six Pack: December 3, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Amazon Prime Air Delivery drones are coming: Jeff Bezos promises half-hour shipping with Amazon Prime Air, David Pierce Other Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm, John Koetsier…

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The Daily Six Pack: December 02, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Sony SmartWatch Sony SmartWatch 2 review, Dan Seifert Other Google’s Growing Patent Stockpile, Antonio Regalado New Linux worm targets routers, cameras, “Internet of things” devices, Dan Goodin How Google is transforming disaster relief, Claire Gordon…

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The Daily Six Pack: November 29, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Interfaces versus Delegates Interfaces vs Delegates, Paulo Zemek Other A Gorgeous Short Film Shows How The MacBook Pro Is Made Hacks of Life: It’s the simple things, Josh Benson F-Secure KEY: New password manager freeware…

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The Daily Six Pack: November 28, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T.Dirk Strauss....Feature link: Visual Studio 2013 ALM Virtual MachineVisual Studio 2013 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts, Brian KellerOtherMicrosoft, suspecting NSA spying, to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic, Craig TimbergBeginning LightSwitch in VS 2013 Part 4: Too…

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Visual Studio 2013 Reference Build Error Resolved

Visual Studio 2013 Reference Build Error – I was recently playing around with some code when I switched my solution configuration from Debug to Release. Suddenly, my builds all failed. There was a warning in my Error List that told me that it could not locate one of my references.

The strange thing was that the project built fine in debug mode. The DLL was referenced and the using statements defined. I couldn’t think why my builds would fail in release mode. The solution wasn’t as straightforward as I would have hoped. It seems as though Visual Studio was hinting at the wrong location. (more…)

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The Daily Six Pack: November 26, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Kill Programming Productivity The 15 worst ways to kill programming productivity, Peter Wayner Other Not happy with Skype? Microsoft has some fixes in the works, Lance Whitney If Comet ISON Survives The Sun, The View…

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The Daily Six Pack: November 25, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: New Windows 8.1 Settings New PC settings to play with, Anna Brinkmann Other Software, You're Doing it Wrong, Eli Weinstock-Herman NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software, Floor Boon #980 – Getting Data Out…

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The Daily Six Pack: November 22, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Curah Curah! - Curate the web and share what you know, S. Somasegar Other 42 million dating-site passwords exposed in security breach, Miles Klee Microsoft envisions a not-so-distant future where apps are 'Bingified', Mary…

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