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2026/04/06 CUDA on WSL2: How It Works, How to Set It Up, and a Rust TUI to Prove It
2026/04/06 Asteroids - 1980s version in Rust TUI
2026/03/21 MacBook Neo 8GB: MPS/Metal Actually Works
2026/02/04 Windows 11 AI Features – 8 Gig of RAM – what I don’t need
2026/01/29 Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE) is Great – But what About Scaling it?
2025/12/22 Fixing mise shims not working in VS Code on Ubuntu: avoid the Snap build
2025/12/11 Getting Azure Defender Security Scores into JSON
2025/11/23 Getting PyTorch + ROCm Working on a Framework 13 (Ryzen AI 9) Using a Dev Container
2025/09/04 Windows 11 with Bypass
2025/08/27 PXE with UEFI should be easy, right
2025/06/13 Cleaning up Visual Studio Code Extensions
2025/03/13 Leveraging Azure Application Insights with OpenTelemetry: Distributed Tracing Done Right
2025/03/13 Copy a Hyper-V VM with - “The key protector could not be unwrapped. Details are included in the HostGuardianService-Client event log”
2024/09/03 Is your team healthy?
2024/05/26 Azure Stream Analytics Updating a Job using a GitHub Action to stop and start
2024/05/26 Git Git Submodules vs. Git Subtree
2023/04/30 Using regular expressions in Azure Application Gateway Rewrite Rules - extract Certificate Common Name
2023/04/30 IP Address and Subnetting CIDR Helpful Tools - ipcalc cli
2022/08/25 Using BlobOutput and EventHubTrigger bindings with System Properties in Java Azure Functions
2022/08/03 Scala Using with OpenTelemetry Span to automatically end the Span Block
2022/07/22 Parse Log output from Hadoop Yarn MapReduce DFSIO Benchmark Utility to CSV Files
2022/07/11 Generate OpenTelemetry Compliant TraceParent TraceContext Headers using Bash
2022/07/01 Expanding Ubuntu Disk Image
2022/03/24 Converting Azure EventHub Capture AVRO to JSON Lines (JSONL)
2022/01/19 Spring Initializer from the Command Line - Tighten the Developer Loop
2022/01/05 Loading .env (dotenv) using bash or zsh
2021/08/25 Get the weather at a command line interface CLI - curl
2021/07/09 Easily capture web hook messages in storage with hierarchical structure
2021/07/01 DotNet Core Building Docker SDK Missing.
2020/05/11 Google Chrome Software Reporter Tool CPU High
2020/05/10 Jupyter Lab Build Failures under Wsl shutil.Error [Errno 13] Permission denied
2020/05/08 Azure DevOps PowerShell Tasks Fail with NativeCommandError RemoteException
2020/05/05 Using vcvars64 vcvars.bat from PowerShell and Azure Devops
2020/01/24 Jupyter Notebook auto launch browser from WSL
2019/12/07 ssh annoyance – strict mode and known_hosts cleanup
2019/12/07 Error: Manually created ServicePrincipalToken does not contain secret material to retrieve a new access token
2019/08/12 Tensorflow - Suppressing FutureWarning numpy messages in Jupyter Notebooks
2019/08/01 Decode Office 365 Safelinks URLs
2019/04/30 Get rid of .DS_Store messages in OneDrive
2019/04/17 Using Azure CLI with two different credentials
2019/04/11 A better git bash prompt
2018/12/20 npx business cards - gone viral so fast…
2018/12/16 Docker Compose on Kubernetes - Windows Volume Syntax
2018/12/15 Strapi Open Source API CMS using Azure CosmosDB Emulator
2018/12/13 Keras Tensor flow CUBLAS_STATUS_NOT_INITIALIZED
2018/12/05 Typescript and non string Environment Variable parsing
2018/12/03 Windows Update Fail Microsoft-OneCore-DeveloperMode-Desktop-Package Error = 0x800F081F-0x20003
2018/08/25 Improving Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL by 500% - Minutes to Seconds
2018/08/05 The Travis CLI in a Container
2018/04/18 Visual Studio Code Windows from WSL Bash Ubuntu
2017/08/15 Forcing TLS (HTTPS) on Azure Web Apps for Linux with nginx
2017/07/28 Cool tool for npm packages and having a local cache
2017/06/02 Quickly get an Ethereum Geth miner node standalone
2017/05/31 Ensuring Initializing and Server Side Configuration with Angular 4+
2017/05/18 Using Private Docker Registry and Azure WebApps on Linux with ARM Templates
2017/05/12 Code Theater with Ali Hajimirza - Blockchain Solves a Webjet problem
2017/05/12 Removing Azure CLI (Python version)
2017/04/23 Reverse Engineering Ethstats Agent for a FluentD plugin
2017/03/16 Blockchain followers are not Disruptive Enough
2016/12/30 Proper npm Global Package Upgrade
2016/12/01 macOS is my new home
2016/10/29 NTS: Testing Disk Speed on macOS
2016/10/29 Start fresh with a clean installation of Windows 10
2016/10/07 Outlook 2016 on macOS and RMS Message - You don’t have permissions
2016/09/24 Carthage and OTP GitHub Errors
2016/08/19 Windows 10 Hyper-V - Finally a NAT Option…
2016/08/19 Reminder: quick cleanup of Docker images…
2016/08/18 User Experience Above All Else
2016/08/17 Fixing CocoaPods bad Dependancies
2016/08/15 Just a reminder - adding your user to Docker group…
2016/08/10 Simple Static Web Server for Docker
2016/07/27 iCloud drive on Windows - use a different drive.
2016/07/25 Help make the cloud better - looking for respondents to a quick survey…
2016/06/17 Checking if a WebSite Name is Available via Azure ARM (REST)
2016/06/14 Azure Functions - Local Development Logging
2016/06/05 GigAware and the World Humanitarian Summit - Istanbul Turkey
2016/05/16 It’s always 1 in 5…
2016/04/26 DECODED Conference Dublin
2016/04/15 New Blogging Engine…
2015/12/07 Creating a VHD from ISO using WIM2VHD Convert-WindowsImage …
2015/09/17 Simple Azure Blob Storage Performance (upload) testing
2015/09/10 Using Multiple Devices for 2-step verification to save time !
2015/09/05 Federation Metadata generation tool on Github
2015/07/12 CSL for Pace University–IEEE based using custom author sort
2015/07/01 Cleaning up IIS Express sites v2
2015/07/01 Cheap and easy IP blocking in Azure Web Apps
2015/02/27 AngularJS intellisense NuGet package added
2015/02/15 Troubleshooting tool–Azure WebJob TCP Ping
2015/02/12 Azure Resource Manager–Creating an IaaS VM within a VNET
2015/02/09 Azure Resource Manager – Creating Storage Accounts
2015/02/09 Azure Resource Manager– Creating a Resource Group and a VNET
2015/01/31 Azure Resource Manager – Adding and Assigning Certificates to a Website
2015/01/14 Running ASP.NET 5 applications in Linux Containers with Docker
2014/12/11 PDF Search Handler fix
2014/11/24 Running the AspNet vNext MVC sample direct from Docker
2014/11/23 Using the Docker client from Windows and getting AspNet vNext running in a Docker Container
2014/11/17 Useful Machine Learning and HDInsight / Hadoop Links Posts and Information
2014/11/06 SharePoint 2013 Fixing WCAG F38 Failure–Images without ALT tags–using a Control Adapter–Display Templates
2014/10/26 Why you should never say “Turn ON Intranet Settings” in Internet Explorer IE
2014/10/09 Getting Docker Running on Hyper-V 8.1/ 2012 R2
2014/09/24 Issues with OneDrive for business and Document Cache–Don’t mix C2R and MSI installs
2014/07/14 SharePoint 2013 Farm in Less than an Hour–New Azure Portal and Azure Templates
2014/06/23 Disabling HyperV on Surface Pro 3 So Connected Standby will work or not work–depending on your mood
2014/04/17 Comparing Hash of downloaded Files with PowerShell
2014/01/31 WOPI Host Sample has been updated…
2013/12/16 Fiddler and Direct Access
2013/11/20 Updating email address for SharePoint online users if they’re a Live / Microsoft Account…
2013/11/17 Why it doesn’t take an army to build a usable web site…
2013/09/26 Running ASP.NET admin site from command line
2013/08/14 Host named site collections and Web Application Extensions
2013/07/22 Building an Office Web Apps (OWA) WOPI Host
2013/07/01 Getting a user’s SID via PowerShell…
2013/06/26 Planning Poker Win8 App.
2013/06/24 Office Web Apps–WOPI Host and url paths
2013/06/18 Note to self–SQL Alias on x64–you need to set both 32/64 cliconfg.exe
2013/06/08 Office 365 SharePoint and PDF files…
2013/05/03 NuPattern - Home
2013/05/03 Using S2S for On-Premises Access with Forms Based Access (FBA) in SharePoint 2013
2013/04/28 Spelunking with the SharePoint 2013 App AppContext Tokens and StandardTokens
2013/04/03 E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies - TechNet Articles - United States (English) - TechNet Wiki
2013/03/26 eBook on SignalR…
2013/03/26 Visual Studio IE Debug with No Add-ons
2013/03/17 Take a brief look at the Agile management features in TFS 2012
2013/03/11 eBook - Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes–available now…
2013/03/08 Cleaning up IIS Express Sites
2013/02/28 Querying a SharePoint 2013 Task List for Subtasks
2013/01/31 Get your VHD images for testing–all prepped and ready to go…
2013/01/28 Disable swipe on synaptics touchpad in Windows 8
2012/11/03 Updating your TFS Service urls to from TfsPreview.com to VisualStudio.com
2012/11/02 RealTime communication with SingalR…
2012/08/19 Starting fresh with the Visual Studio 2012 RTM bits…
2012/07/05 Good use of the Charms Bar in Windows 8 Metro.
2012/06/20 Updated WIF tools for VS2012 RC are out–be safe…
2012/04/12 Turning off the Visual Studio “Attach to process” security warning…
2012/03/22 Getting a SecurityToken from a RequestSecurityTokenResponse in WIF
2012/02/04 Learn More about Microsoft Codename “Trust Services” - TechNet Articles - Home - TechNet Wiki
2012/01/19 Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent
2011/12/06 Viewing the User Token from Visual Studio 2010 Debugger
2011/11/30 Microsoft TechNet–Create PDF Takeaway chapters for your set of topics–great feature just added..
2011/10/14 Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Co-Developer of Unix, Dies | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
2011/10/13 Description of Update Rollup 1 for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0
2011/10/06 Additional Mime Types in Visual Studio 2010 Development Web Server
2011/09/21 Faking SPContext–for testing only…
2011/09/21 Use an Action delegate to time a method…
2011/09/20 Comparison of Windows Azure Storage Queues and Service Bus Queues « Microsoft Technologies Rocks !!!
2011/09/18 MiniProfiler– A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET.
2011/09/18 Slides for BUILD conference…
2011/09/17 Building scalable web applications with Windows Azure (ed. and on premise too!)
2011/09/07 Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8” - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
2011/07/10 Hosted Service as a Windows Azure CDN Origin Tips
2011/07/06 Raffaele Rialdi DeployManager June 2011 edition–Now supports SAN certificates
2011/06/30 Identity Claims Encoding for SharePoint
2011/06/28 Creating Wildcard Certificates with makecert.exe
2011/06/27 Lorem Ipsum–Generating in Word 2010
2011/06/15 HACK: Forcing FBA Token Refresh against SPClaimProvider with No Credential Challenge
2011/06/10 SharePoint 2010 FBA and Sliding Sessions
2011/06/09 Adding and Removing SPClaimProvider via PowerShell
2011/06/06 Know what Process is calling your SPClaimProvider
2011/06/02 Forcing use of the same Master Page in sub-sites without Publishing
2011/05/26 How does the Windows Azure Fabric controller do that?
2011/05/18 CloudNinja - Windows Azure Multi-tenant Sample - Home
2011/05/16 Welcomed Addition to the WIF Family–SAML-P WIF Extension CTP
2011/05/16 State Machine is “back”…
2011/05/05 Who needs reflector? ILSpy to the rescue..
2011/04/15 Getting the MVC3 assemblies as part of your Windows Azure deployment
2011/04/14 Getting Office Web Apps to run on a Domain controller - AppServerHost.exe
2011/03/14 Differences when Running with OutputCache managed module under ASP.NET IIS7.x with Cache-control header
2011/03/11 Taking advantage of Windows Azure CDN and Dynamic Pages in ASP.NET - Caching content from hosted services
2011/03/07 Asus Slate–I gotta get one.
2011/03/04 AD FS 2.0: Troubleshooting Event 364 and ThrowExceptionForHRInternal / NullReferenceException
2011/03/03 Running Jetty under Windows Azure Using RoleEntryPoint in a Worker Role
2011/03/02 Azure VS Tools and SDK - systray already running…
2011/01/29 SAML Request / Response decoding.
2011/01/13 ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, SQL Compact 4–all released…
2011/01/08 Certificate management for developers
2011/01/07 ADFS v2 Rules Language–Great short video…
2011/01/07 Are these 2 strings equal?
2010/12/21 Visual Studio 2010 Setup Projects and x64 Support
2010/12/05 One Reason to have a Facebook Identity
2010/11/14 Extending SQL 2008 R2 Master Data Services (MDS) with IWorkflowTypeExtender
2010/11/08 Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold
2010/10/08 Note to self – cURL download utility…
2010/09/19 Really should have a custom error page regardless…
2010/09/17 Capturing Feedback in IE9
2010/09/13 Live Mesh – becoming Windows Live Mesh…
2010/09/05 Making Web Client requests behave from .NET or in reality misbehave – ignoring Certificate Issues from HttpWebRequest
2010/08/18 Federation Metadata Generation Tool
2010/08/02 Updated Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide (Version 3.5) Released
2010/07/28 View Engine Razor – MVC 3 preview – and how to get it in WebMatrix…
2010/06/27 Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tooling Guidance is published…
2010/06/25 Can’t see the AppFabric Directory on x64 systems…
2010/06/21 The “Jersey Doesn’t Stink” website – does it really need a site?
2010/06/19 Hyper-V Update List for Windows Server 2008 R2
2010/06/10 Spaces in type attribute for Behavior Extension Configuration Issues
2010/06/10 Using a WCF Message Inspector to extend AppFabric Monitoring
2010/06/10 AppFabric – where are all the monitoring events?
2010/06/08 App_offline.htm and SharePoint and wholly contained images…
2010/06/06 BizTalk 2009 Orchestration Fails to Find References on External Assemblies
2010/05/28 Strings are UTF-16…. There is an error in XML document (1, 1).
2010/04/27 Need an ESB for Windows – Built on .NET
2010/04/21 Enterprise Library 5.0 Released…
2010/04/01 Performance Testing – Quick Reference Guide – Released up on CodePlex
2010/03/12 Fixing my SQL Directory NTFS ACLS
2010/03/11 Copying Properties between 2 Different Types…
2010/02/26 Need a simple LDAP server for Windows 7?
2010/02/23 Collapse Project as a Visual Studio AddIn.
2010/01/31 Deployment of Resource files (*.resx) to App_GlobalResources under SharePoint
2010/01/31 Deployment of Theme and Resource files via Feature / Timer Jobs
2010/01/25 No, your local admin account is NOT a SQL sysadmin – automatically
2010/01/13 I’m with COCO….
2010/01/07 Don’t get caught with long Account Names!!
2009/12/24 What Identity with IIS7 and ApplicationPoolIdentity?
2009/12/23 Wildcard Certificates and IIS7
2009/12/16 Make sure you copy the correct web.config…
2009/12/04 How did I miss this one – The VirtualPathUtility in ASP.NET
2009/11/30 Snip-IT Pro – manage all those little code snippets for re-use and sharing…
2009/11/23 SharePoint 2010 and Claims Based Awareness
2009/11/17 SharePoint 2007 and InfoPath 2010 Client – current install issues…
2009/11/17 Loopback Check on Windows 2008, etc.
2009/11/17 Tongue in Cheek Geek Humor from the PDC
2009/11/11 Cleanup your Features…
2009/11/11 Minor update to the WSS Command Prompt…
2009/11/11 SharePoint 2010 Developer | Learn | Channel 9
2009/11/09 TeamPrise acquired by Microsoft.
2009/10/22 Making a Windows 7 bootable USB…
2009/10/03 Visual Web Part Designer in Visual Studio 2010
2009/08/13 Connecting to Verizon Wireless Broadband
2009/05/28 MSDN Library – Low Bandwidth Mode…
2009/05/22 This version of the enterprise library cannot be installed side by side with version 4.0 on x64
2009/05/05 Building a Mini URL Service – Part 2 – The Algorithm
2009/05/04 Building a Mini URL Service – Part 1
2009/05/04 Making a Win7 Bootable USB device.
2009/04/30 Thanks Jukka – MOSS 2007 SP2 Upgrade Failure – Solution!
2009/04/04 Couple of Visio Links
2009/04/02 SharePoint Designer is now “Free”
2009/02/26 Kerberos Configuration Troubleshooting
2009/02/18 SharePoint learning resources.
2009/02/16 SourceSafe in the Cloud – a second life for VSS
2009/02/13 Try spending some time in the cloud…
2009/02/06 Startup Delayer – Smoother Starts…
2009/01/24 Setting Navigation properties on a SharePoint (WSS) Site…
2009/01/16 What’s my WSS/MOSS patch level?
2009/01/16 A little bit more on the issue with “Not enough storage is available to complete the operation”
2009/01/15 Adding Web Parts via IE 7 and the “Not enough storage is available to complete this operation” javascript Error Message…
2009/01/14 Roger Lamb updates some guidance on SharePoint and Dispose…
2009/01/13 Welcomed updates to VSeWSS – now x64 support
2009/01/10 Live Messenger and AVG (Grisoft) Anti-Virus Issue 8100030d
2008/12/03 Emitting XML via LINQ
2008/11/24 LINQ to XML - retrieving Element values with varying namespaces…
2008/11/24 PowerCommands 1.1 and disappearing Visual Studio 2008
2008/11/07 All this technology - where do I start!
2008/10/22 Installing WCF CTP Extensions with VS 2005 after .NET 3.0 service packs….
2008/10/13 Daily PDC Newsletter…
2008/07/24 Creating a WSS / MOSS Command Prompt on the Desktop
2008/07/15 Using Virtual.Server COM interfaces on an x64 Machine and Visual Studio
2008/05/03 Well, already messed up National Shutdown Day…
2008/03/13 Learning LINQ - No excuses
1969/12/31 ASP.NET - Mixing Forms Authentication and Basic Authentication…