Category Archives: Software
Mercurial problems with Danish letters
Mercurial can have problems with handling non ASCII letters in file names, comments etc. when it across different platforms (Windows, Unix, MacOSX). I have even experienced the problem within different versions of Windows. The problem: File names containg e.g. æøå is … Continue reading
Manually start Visual Studio dev. web server
I needed to manually start the Visual Studio dev. web server for profililng purposes… The web server is located here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\DevServer\9.0\WebDev.WebServer.EXE Arguments /port:<port number> Optional, an unused port number between 1 and 65535. /path:<physical path> A … Continue reading
Print Spooler error in Windows 7 (Bootcamp)
I found this blog post, which solved my problem regarding being unable to print on my Windows 7 MacBook Pro 13″ using Bootcamp. http://tomgee.us/?p=172 This is from the original blog post (thanks to Tom Gee): ——————————————————– The problem Today, when … Continue reading
.NET Resource localization
ResourceBlender is open source and works for .NET: http://www.resourceblender.com/
IETester 0.4.2
Usually when I need to test a HTML design, I use Spoon browsers… but I saw this IE Tester 0.4.2 tool. This is just to remind me, don’t install, it made the JavaScript of Gmail and other sites fail. So, … Continue reading
Visual Studio 2008 debugging and breakpoints
My development tools are currently Visual Studio 2008, Resharper 4.5, Gallio and Testdriven.NET. But for as long as I have used these tools, my Visual Studio debugger has only worked partly. The problem When I inserted some breakpoints in my code, … Continue reading
Test of online backup providers
I have a Windows server that I use as a development and testing server. Besides that it also hosts my Subversion repository. Being a developer, my subversion repository is of great value to me. I have therefor been looking for … Continue reading
iVPN on Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.6
Update: 22-02-2011 I just updated Mac OSX to 10.6 and the iVPN approach still works, just make sure not to update but stick to the version from this post. I have a Mac mini with Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger), and I … Continue reading
NHibernate Fluent Criteria
– Updated on the 2. January 2010 I have been using NHibernate for some time now, and I am very satisfied with the functionality it provides. However, I do really not like “magic strings” as these makes the code resistent … Continue reading
Now using WordPress
I have now changed my blog software from BlogEngine.NET to WordPress. It was not very complicated to export my blog posts from BlogEngine.NET to WordPress, however it did take some time to import everything to WordPress. Here are the steps I had … Continue reading