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My blog of techy stuff, ranging around SQL (SQL Server, that is), C# and .net, JavaScript and a smattering of stuff about the Orchard CMS (that powers my site) as I get more familiar with it. There's the occasional non-technical post when something is of interest to me that I feel is worth sharing, but they should be few and far between
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The PowerShell Out-GridView cmdlet
There's a PowerShell cmdlet that I've seen before, but it's never quite lodged itself in my brain sufficiently for me to remember it and use it. It's Out-GridView and it's something that won't be of …
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Using the Azure Storage Emulator
As I'm gearing up to continue my series of posts on the subject of migrating an application to Azure, one of the things that occured to me was that the existing implementation has unit tests. …
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Opserver - several different kinds of cool
A year or so ago I discovered Opserver, a monitoring system/solution built by the guys at Stack Exchange (i.e. those who built Stack Overflow and all its sibling Q&A sites) that can monitor a …
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Installing code to Orchard directly from GitHub
I recently had a question land in the comments on my post about making the PJS.Bootstrap theme work with Orchard 1.10.x, where Abner asked:
I am new to orchard development so please mind the noob …
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Migrating an application to Azure - Part 1: Introduction
Way back in the mists of time (ok, 2011 so not exactly the age of the dinosaur!) I built an employee recognition and reward platform for an FTSE 100 company. Why's that even remotely interesting, I …
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Enabling Social Meta Tags in Orchard
I've been sharing some of the content I've written via LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook - mainly reserving the recipes I've been putting together for Facebook and the more technical / professional …
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Link Dump
Another of those very lazy posts where I'm sharing links to content by other people, other content that I want to be able to refer back to in the future, admittedly!
Using LinqPad to open SQL CE 4.0 …
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Interviewing with Microsoft
As I made reference to in Who you know, versus what you know and My "Hit Refresh" moment, I interviewed with Microsoft a few months ago for an Application Development Manager role. This is a …
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Making my images play nicely with mobile devices
It was pointed out to me earlier today that whilst the carousel on my home page scales and looks right on everything from desktops to mobile phones, the "top-hat" images I've been including in posts …
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Guides to module building in Orchard
Since I added a carousel to my homepage, I've been working towards turning this into an Orchard module so that I can (a) share it with others, and (b) use it as an opportunity to learn how to put …