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(Re-)Initializing Azure Development Storage

I just created a new Azure project the other day. It had been more than 4 months since I’d run any Azure code in my local development environment, but I had made changes on my computer. One significant thing I … Continue reading

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Book Review / Overview: “HTML5 and CSS3” by Brian P. Hogan

Review: I’ve just finished reading “HTML5 and CSS3” by Brian P. Hogan (http://www.bphogan.com/) and The Pragmatic Bookshelf. I’m not new to HTML and I’ve even read another book on HTML5, but I really learned a lot from this book, and … Continue reading

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GWT Tip: Don’t use your module name as the id of an HTML element in your page.

I spent a few hours tracking down and fixing something in our GWT application over the last couple of days, and thought I would blog about it in case someone reading this blog (maybe me in the future) runs into … Continue reading

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Solving "Expecting version 5 from client, got 6" problem with GWT

Before Christmas break I upgraded my GWT Eclipse plugin. This morning, after rebuilding and trying to run my GWT (Google Web Toolkit) application, I ran into this error: Exception while dispatching incoming RPC call com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.IncompatibleRemoteServiceException: This application is out of … Continue reading

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Book Review / Overview: “HTML5: Up and Running” by Mark Pilgrim

Review: I’ve just finished reading “HTML5: Up and Running” by Mark Pilgrim (http://diveintohtml5.org/). I liked the book, as it’s a good introduction to the new features of HTML5, and even broken down the way I wanted it to be, i.e. … Continue reading

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NECC14 Presentation – Debugging JavaScript in Visual Studio

How to Debug JavaScript using Visual Studio. Continue reading

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How to find the Teradata Process Id (TDPID) under Windows

I was recently trying to connect to my local Teradata instance via the BTEQ (Basic Teradata Query) command-line tool and ran into a problem trying to login. I usually use the Teradata SQL Assistant GUI based tool, so I don’t … Continue reading

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How to find IIS7 logs for your site

I’m not a power user of IIS, so when I do use it, I sometimes need a reminder of how to find something. Recently, I wanted to view the logs of a site, that was running in IIS. IIS also … Continue reading

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Still stuck on IE6 in 2010 and need to debug on other versions? How to use MS Virtual PC

Installing and using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 on XP in order to run IE7. Continue reading

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Azure Firestarter Wrap up

Well the Windows Azure Firestarter organized by the Boston Azure User Group has come and gone. It was a very interesting and informative day. I hope the attendees came away with a good feeling for what the Microsoft cloud is … Continue reading

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