How not to do support: eBay 20 August 2014 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) Life, Misc As a software developer I know software can contain or contains bugs – that is very likely. I accept that. Looking at the (german) ebay support site they do not. There are quite a few *know issues* around buying or selling as well as a searchable *knowledgebase*. But there is no way to tell them if... [More]
Powershell Script to open IIS applicationHost.config 07 August 2014 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) Productivity, Web, Infrastructure, PowerShell I got a bit tired of walking down the directories to manually edit the IIS configuration file. So I wrote this little script to ease up opening the file from 32 and 64 bit Powershell:
Microsoft Research JavaScript Cryptography Library 24 June 2014 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) JavaScript, Security Microsoft research has published a JavaScript library that extends the W3C WebCrypto API. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/29f9385d-da4c-479a-b2ea-2a7bb335d727/default.aspx The download is amazingly big for a JavaScript library: 254 MB! I'll have a look over the source. If you are inter... [More]
Poor Man’s SQL Data Generation 18 June 2014 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) MsSQL, Project Data generation is at best done with tools. Since Visual Studio Data Tools have dropped support there is for instance red gate’s DBA bundle. My current license does not work with Microsoft SQL Server 2014. I need a quick solution to reproduce a scenario with *some more data* in just one table. Which... [More]
Bye bye RFC2616, Welcome RFC 723X 10 June 2014 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) Web The IETF has published a bunch of new RFCs to update HTTP/1.1 specs and make the 15 year old 2616 obsolete: RFC 7230: Message Syntax and Routing RFC 7231: Semantics and Content RFC 7232: Conditional Requests RFC 7233: Range Request RFC 7234: Caching RFC 7235: Authentication RFC 7236: Authent... [More]
Remote Work Book Recommendations 08 June 2014 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) I had the first contact to 37signalsbasecamp by reading Getting Real when it was published in 2009. I just finished their new book “Remote”. Since I’m working a lot from my home office since a few month I find more and more reasons for working remote. The latest one is from “The-Thinking-Clearly” b... [More]
Windows Defender Registry Settings for Visual Studio Speed 08 June 2014 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) Project, Productivity, VisualStudio To increase Visual Studio performance several things can be done. One is to configure Windows Defender:
DotNet Cologne 2014 Session: Build, Build, Build 08 June 2014 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) Event, ALM Here are the slides for my session at dotnet cologne: 2014 - DotNetCologne: Build, Builder, Am Buildesten from Daniel Fisher
.NET Usergroup Rhein/Ruhr Session: Component Based Development 08 June 2014 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) Event Here are the slides for my session at .NET Usergroup Rhein/Ruhr: 2014 - DotNet UG Rhen Ruhr: Komponentenorientierung from Daniel Fisher
Remote control supermicro super server via ATEN IPMI in C# 21 April 2014 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) C#, ALM, Project, Tools, Infrastructure I really like IPMI so I don’t have to walk to the data center to turn on a machine. But the web interface is so 90s. As I live life on the console I whished I had a command line utility. Et voilà: