Applications typically send a lot of emails. At least, they should, since it’s a good, archive-able method for communication and confirmation. Archive-able for the receiver, sure, but what about the sender – the application? You have a couple of options: Continue reading Save That Email. As an Email.
In a current task where I had to consolidate the structure of a website and organize the files better, I ran across this interesting quirk. When developing, we work in a virtual directory on our local machine, while on a Continue reading Staying On The Correct Path
When you want to have your site support login from other services like Google, Facebook, or Microsoft, you use the Owin libraries. The base MVC template sets all this up for you, but it also has a lot of stuff Continue reading The Minimum For Integration Logins
One of my favorite things is custom protocol handlers. The idea you can launch an application with a URL is awesome to me. I implemented it at my current company for their internal application and it is far and away Continue reading Youtube-dl Bookmarklet
I’m always looking for novel ways to accomplish something. Even if it’s totally inefficient, it still is a good exercise in problem-solving. Sometimes you can find a good challenge by taking something simple, then making it complex. For example, there Continue reading Finding Solutions Before Problems
I’m always looking for novel ways to accomplish something, even it’s totally inefficient… This sounds familiar. Interestingly, the solution I was experimenting with in the last post is closely related to a problem I took up for resolution today. In Continue reading Finding Solutions In Problems
All .NET developers should know that .NET is pretty reference-happy. There’s an interesting phenomena with Structures and Classes that I can illustrate later, but the issue I wanted to point out here involves references and garbage collection. As we know, Continue reading Why Won’t You Go Away?!
While trying to create a script to stop and start web sites on multiple servers, I got an error on 3 of the four servers: The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable ErrNumber: 462 (0x1CE) Error trying Continue reading adsutil.vbs Error 462
I read couple small tips from a SQL Server MVP that I had to try out. I was surprised this is the first I’d ever heard of them. The tips were concerning optional parameters – basically, when you pass a Continue reading Small Changes Make Big Changes
There used to be a time when SQL Server was a database engine. Setup of the product was easy. You told it where to install, then you set up the service accounts. Over time, the feature set of SQL Server Continue reading My, How Big You’ve Grown