The Dreaded Annual Review
There's obviously lots wrong with badly-formatted annual reviews. The trick to getting them right is to think about your approach to the reviews and how you treat them and the "secret sauce" is to...
View ArticleMachineKey Key Generator
Helpful code to generate keys for your MachineKey section in your web application. Continue reading →
View ArticleArchitecting A C# Web-Based Application: Introduction
I am beginning a series of articles on architecting a "serious business" web-focused application. The raison d'être for this is because I have been unable to find a focused, well-documented sample...
View ArticleArchitecting A C# Web-Based Application: General Concepts
So, we've loosely tossed around our greenfield web application project in our head, and we've decided that we're going to go ahead and develop it. The question then becomes "What's next?" Continue...
View ArticleConcatenate Aggregate Function For SQL Server
Tired of the fact that, still after many years, there isn't a convenient and built-in way to concatenate strings in an aggegrating query. Well, wait no more! Continue reading →
View ArticleFedora 16 Minimal Install And No Networking
Hopefully, this helps some people quickly shortcut to a solution instead of putzing around for a couple hours wondering “Why, O Why?”. If you install Fedora 16 with a minimal install, like I recently...
View ArticleContinuous Integration With Jenkins On Ubuntu 11.10
First, install Ubuntu Server 11.10. Obviously, settings will vary from machine to machine, but when you get to the page for selecting software to be installed, make sure you select both the OpenSSH...
View ArticleA Starter Ubuntu 12.10 Server
Here’s my frequent steps: Install Ubuntu 12.04 Server (x64) on the virtual or physical machine. When stepping through the install, make sure to install the OpenSSH server if you will want/need to...
View ArticleAn Nginx Configuration For Jenkins
Lots of people have posted configurations of Nginx to allow effective proxying of Jenkins when they are both on the same server, but for some reason, it seems that having them on different servers...
View ArticleInstalling Alfresco Community 4 On Ubuntu Server 12
In this article, I’m going to show you how I installed Alfresco Community 4 on a plain Ubuntu 12.04 server. We’ll be installing this entirely from the command line, without the assistance...
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