Author Archives: squdgy

Taking a SQL Server Database offline

Posted on June 24, 2011 by squdgy

I’ve had to take a SQL Server database offline several times lately, and I keep forgetting the names of the commands I need to use, so I’m saving them here for future use. To take the database offline: ALTER DATABASE … Continue reading →

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Book Review / Overview: “Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps” by Josh Clark

Posted on June 16, 2011 by squdgy

Review: I read Josh Clark’s book earlier this year.  The introduction included the perfect quote to describe what this book was about: “This book teaches you how to “think iPhone.” It isn’t a programming book. It’s not a marketing book. … Continue reading →

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Running into the Internet Explorer Travel Log bug

Posted on June 6, 2011 by squdgy

I recently ran into some strange behavior in an application that I was working with. In some particular conditions, the browser back button would become disabled, and I could no longer go back to see the last page I was … Continue reading →

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New England Code Camp 15 Presentation – Introduction to the Ext JS JavaScript framework "for Rich Apps in Every Browser"

Posted on May 13, 2011 by squdgy

Joan Wortman and I gave a talk at New England Code Camp 15 last weekend. The talk was titled “Introduction to the Ext JSJavaScript framework “for Rich Apps in Every Browser””.  Here are the slides for that talk: Introduction to … Continue reading →

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New England Give Camp 2011 Recap – “Code it Forward”

Posted on May 13, 2011 by squdgy

Over the first weekend in May I had the pleasure of joining more than 100 other volunteers to help ~29 non-profits with technical challenges in the 2nd annual New England Give Camp, held at the Microsoft NERD (New England Research … Continue reading →

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Book Review / Overview: “EXT JS In Action” by Jesus Garcia

Posted on April 26, 2011 by squdgy

Review: Ext JS by Sencha is a terrific JavaScript framework for building Rich Internet Applications (http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/). I’ve been using Ext JS since version 1.x, and do some pretty advanced stuff with it, so this is not a newbie review. To … Continue reading →

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Liferay Theme Files Without a Cache-Control Header?!

Posted on March 25, 2011 by squdgy

I ran into an interesting situation with our web application as we started to do some testing where our portal server (Liferay 5.1.2 on tomcat 6) was on the west coast and the testers on the east coast. The application … Continue reading →

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GMail Tries to Prevent You From Making Mistakes?

Posted on March 16, 2011 by squdgy

I was quite suprised today when I sent an email to a colleague, telling them that I attached a file in a web-based system that we use, and got an interesting popup: “Did you mean to attach files? You wrote … Continue reading →

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O’Reilly Media Wish List Contest

Posted on February 21, 2011 by squdgy

O’Reilly is having a wish list contest! http://oreilly.com/new-year-2011. “Compile a wish list of O’Reilly titles — print or ebook or video or all — that you’d like to own, totaling up to $500 in value. Post that list online (your … Continue reading →

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Book Review / Overview: “Azure in Action” by Chris Hay and Brian H. Prince

Posted on February 9, 2011 by squdgy

Review I read “Azure in Action” in November of 2010 (during my travel to/from PDC), but am just going over it again now. I’ve been dipping my toe in Azure for something like 15 months now, but dipping is as … Continue reading →

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