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Buildbox is a wonderful game authoring tool (that spans the whole nocode-code continuum, including the low-code aspect). It now has a free version too with nice templates and tutorials included. I had an issue with the Windows version (it also has an indentical MacOS-X version since it’s a Qt-based app) where it was complaining about […]...
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Getting really annoyed by YouTube’s insistence to autoplay (and not even stop the previously playing video) everytime you navigate to a browser tab that shows YouTube content (say using CTRL+TAB / SHIFT+CTRL+TAB to find a tab you’re looking for when you have too many and they only manage to fit their icons so no title […]...
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Seems Acer Aspire One (AS1) ZG5 can have a recurring problem, esp. if its battery is near its end of life. If it shuts down abruptly its BIOS settings seem to get corrupted and its BIOS instead of discarding them seems to freeze. Luckily they have a way to update the BIOS via USB key […]...
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Judging from MySQL documentation at https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/datetime.html, it sounds best to use DATETIME rather than TIMESTAMP if you want your database to be future proof. After all 2038 is only 18+ years away. The DATETIME type is used for values that contain both date and time parts. MySQL retrieves and displays DATETIME values in 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS' […]...
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On an ASP.net MVC webapp I’m maintaining, I had the issue that due to caching of older CSS (stylesheet) files in the browser, if the user didn’t press F5/refresh, it wasn’t showing you some message (since I had added the class .center-horiz-vert in the CSS that didn’t exist in the older cached css the browser […]...
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After upgrading from Visual Studio 2017 to Visual Studio 2019 I was able to update NuGet packages Fody and Costura.Fody of a solution that needed them (to package assembly DLLs inside console EXEcutables) and the solution was rebuilding fine. However after I synced the solution via a Git repository on another machine and installed the […]...
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Azure Availability Zones is a high-availability offering that protects your applications and data from datacenter failures. Availability Zones are unique physical locations within an Azure… Continue reading Move an Azure VM to an Availability Zone...
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For some time now I was trying to update the BIOS of an older Dell Inspiron 3537 laptop from inside Windows (with the InsydeFlash application that the respective Dell update package employs), only to get a blue screen saying Invalid Firmware Image upon reboot and the BIOS update was skipped every time. Since that update […]...
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Recently, in a project, we had to extract the values from a large collection of objects and, while the easiest way to do so was to use the native Object.values()method, which returns an array of a given object’s own enumerable property values, we noticed some performance issues. So, we started measuring the performance of this method compared to some other......
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ASP.NET Core Identity uses default values for settings such as password policy, lockout, and cookie configuration. These settings can be overridden in the Startup class. By default the Password Policy has the following options: RequireDigit: (default: true) Requires a number between 0-9 in the password. RequiredLength: (default: 6) The minimum length of the password. RequireLowercase: (default: true) Requires a lowercase character......
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Was just trying to round-off some Google Maps coordinates for display in Javascript up to 3 decimal digits and that was a bit like a blast from the past (the end of the ‘90s to be more accurate)… So here’s my contributed answer at: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2221167/javascript-formatting-a-rounded-number-to-n-decimals This works for rounding to N digits (if you just […]...
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OpenLayers is a fine alternative to the map visualization part of Google Maps Platform, however many of its examples sometimes use features from future and server-side Javascript versions, like “imports”. Based on lou’s answer at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51093964/why-examples-dont-work-a-struggle-with-imports/56549364, here’s a fix I just did to make the Marker animation example work when you just copy-paste the example […]...
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Let’s assume you have started experimenting with Azure Functions and, for your first app, you have chosen the Azure Portal as your development environment. You have created a new Azure Function by clicking the Plus icon next to your Azure Function name, selected In-portal from the first step of the wizard, and from the second screen you picked the Webhook......
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Sample IIS log pipeline with logstash https://t.co/DMbg6y4Bqg Advertisements...
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Having recently updated an ASP.net MVC web app from MVC4 to MVC5 and from .NET 4.5 to .NET 4.7.2 I was expecting Razor views (.cshtml files) to use the latest C# compiler, especially since at Properties/Build/Advanced option for the web project one read “C# latest major version (default)”. However that was not the case and […]...
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I’m often asked by friends and family to assist them on frustrating technical issues they can’t resolve by themselves. Thanks to remote access / support software like TeamViewer, this is a piece of cake nowadays. The solution to such problems isn’t always straightforward though. Just came across a Microsoft Word installation where suddenly the Print […]...
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Had just converted to target .NET framework 4.7.2 a Visual Studio solution full of 4.5 libraries, console apps and an MVC 5.0 (recently converted from 4.0) web app and all seemed to build fine, but then noticed that with web.config of the MVC web app open in the editor, it was showing lots of warnings […]...
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Do you have a project, where you use Azure pipelines to build it? How do you get the referenced DevExpress assemblies? In this post I will discuss how we go for it in eXpandFramework. The process however is applicable in all other projects. After executing the next 4 lines your solution should compile: Install-Module XpandPosh Register-PackageSource – ProviderName Nuget – Name DX_private – Location https : //nuget.devexpress.com/YOURTOKEN Install-DX -binPath YOURBIN -dxSources $( Get-PackageSourceLocations -join ";" ) -sourcePath YOURSOURCESPATH -dxVersion 18.2.5 Update-HintPath – OutputPath YOURBIN – SourcesPath YOURSOURCESPATH For feedback drop an issue at https://github.com/eXpandFramework/DevExpress.PackageContent...
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Based on Sam Holder’s answer at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7388475/reading-int-values-from-sqldatareader/54296026, just contributed an extension method for fetching Int32 values via ADO.net’s SqlDataReader, without jumping through hoops (aka first fetch column ordinal [number] by name, then fetching the int value passing the column ordinal). Would be nice if Microsoft was providing such things out of the box. namespace adonet.extensions […]...
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In this post we will talk about all the necessary steps to build and deploy an Angular web application to a static website hosting container in Azure Storage using Azure DevOps. Step 1. Setup a GitHub Repository & commit a sample Angular App To start with, you need to create a new repository in GitHub and push an Angular application......
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JavaScript, and the tools around it, have advanced a lot during the last couple of years. So, below you will see few tips and tricks that I find useful in my day-to-day development workflow, in regards to console logging. 01. Custom Css Styling in your console log statements You can add custom styling to your log statements using the %c attribute.......
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* AI business solutions: https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/solutions/practice-areas/artificial-intelligence * AI platform: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/ai-platform/ at the section «Open and comprehensive platform» (scroll down) and see the three tabs AI tools/AI frameworks/AI related infrastructure * Azure (cloud) Machine Learning: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/machine-learning/ – Machine Learning service (TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Jupyter etc.) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning-service/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/service/ – Machine Learning Studio (visual drag-drop/flow based) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning-studio/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio/ – […]...
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I got an older Lumia 930 phone (nice big display and 20MP camera, Windows Mobile 8.1 upgradeable to Windows 10, main shortcoming is that it doesn’t have microSD slot) on big discount the other day, but after upgrading it to Windows 10 I accidentally entered the wrong PIN code at login an it managed to […]...
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Azure Storage is a cloud storage solution for data storage scenarios and one key service, among others, is Azure Blobs, a scalable object store for text and binary data. A main use is to upload files to it, either as a long term backup solution, or as a way to serve documents, images and videos directly to a browser. To do so, you......
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A colleague noticed earlier on today, that on the Chrome browser they were using, the search operator menu items of a jqGrid on a web app’s UI were jumping around on hover, making it practically impossible to select one. Seems this had started occurring on that ASP.net MVC web application, after a recent update […]...
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