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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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Running Redis on Ubuntu on Windows
Whilst there's a Windows port of Redis server, the last stable release that was produced was 3.0.504 in July 2016. There's plenty of options for running later versions of Redis as a Windows …
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Edge not working for you in Windows 10 (1809)? Try Fiddler
If you've upgraded to the latest version of Windows 10 (1809) and are having problems browsing the web, try running Fiddler. Having this sat between the interweb and Edge seemed to kick it straight …
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Using the #if pre-processor directive to do different things for x64 builds
I'd just about finished writing an answer for a question on Stack Overflow when the poster deleted it, so I thought I'd drop the answer here instead.
The question asked was essentially:
How can I …
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Charging a completely flat Surface Pro 3
A very short one - if you've got a Surface Pro 3 (and this may well apply to other Surfaces) and the battery is totally flat, charging it from a Surface Dock may not work.
If you see the light on …
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Splitting out ASP.NET Core Identity into a separate library
In a recent post I described how to change the data type that ASP.NET Core Identity uses for the generated id's for users. Before I go much further I want to split this out into a separate library, …
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A brief look at the Windows Admin Center (1809)
A few days ago I happened to look at the list of recently installed updates in the Settings app and noticed that I'd received an update for Windows Admin Center 1809 which reminded me that I'd …
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Wrapping ConcurrentQueue<T> to make it eventful
One of the projects I inherited has been merrily sat on its server bubbling away and doing what it needs to do since before I joined the company until a few days ago when another service on the …
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Taking the GUID out of ASP.NET Core Identity
I've been working on an ASP.NET Core web project using the built-in ASP.NET Core Identity solution. All the project scaffolding was done by choosing to create a new ASP.NET Core Web Application, …
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Styling the Orchard Tag Cloud so it looks like a cloud, not a list
I've had a tag cloud sat on the right-hand side of my blg (or down the bottom for those viewing on mobile devices, or computers with tiny screens) pretty much since I set it up on Orchard. The tag …
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My "Hit Refresh" moment - twelve months on
Yeah - it's the cat, again.
Twelve months ago Dona Sarkar encouraged me to write about My Hit Refresh moment. Quite a lot's changed since then so I thought it'd be good to write a retrospective, …