A little over two years ago, I wrote a post about installing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 , in which I mentioned setting the MaxPatchCacheSize registry setting to 0 (in order to save some significant disk space while installing the service pack)...
In my previous post , I showed an example KPI dashboard for a Web application with a table similar to the following: Key Performance Indicators (Detail) Site 2009 Q3 2009 Q4 2010 Q1 Thresholds Duncan 93% 95% ...
Last week I installed Visual Studio 2010 on my primary desktop. This morning, I opened my Fabrikam.Demo solution in the new version of Visual Studio, but chose not to upgrade the target framework when prompted by Visual Studio during the solution upgrade...
I've mentioned in the past how I run a Windows Server 2003 mail server in order to use the POP3 service for basic e-mail functionality, and that I didn't have any interest in finding an alternative when I discovered POP3 is no longer available in Windows...
In my previous post , I extolled my love of typed DataSets in .NET because they are not only quick to design and update, but also very easy to understand. Essentially, if you can read an entity-relationship model (à la ERwin or a Visio database...
First off, my apologies to Paul Simon regarding the title of this blog post -- but I simply couldn't resist ;-) When architecting and building solutions for customers, I tend to make heavy use of typed DataSets. I believe I used them on my very...
Yesterday I was doing another "Knowledge Transfer" session and before I started walking through some code in a debugging session, I took a brief detour to show the team how I recommend disabling the "ping" functionality in IIS for your application pool...
Last Thursday, I mentioned a problem that would occasionally occur with the formatting on my blog posts (but only when viewing the default page -- listing the most recent posts -- and not when viewing individual posts). Tonight I thought I should spend...
I've mentioned before how I run two Hyper-V servers in the " Jameson Datacenter " (each one hosting a variety of different VMs). On the rare occasion that a patch comes out on Windows Update that affects Windows Server 2008 Server Core edition (such...
Earlier this week, a colleague of mine was building out his own version of the Jameson Datacenter based on a variety of posts I've written in the past. Over an IM conversation, he mentioned that some of my posts tend to run off the page -- making them...