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Site always renders in quirks mode? DOCTYPE must be the very first item on page!
Every now and then I'll throw a Response.Write() in my code to do some debugging. It always messes up the entire layout of the page when I do that, but I never really bothered to know why. After all, it’s just a temporary situation. Turns out that the...
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 - Test first!
It appears that our run of fairly benign VS SP’s is over… I've now installed the VS 2010 SP1 in a few simple test environments (x64) and all of them are having issues. Add-in failures, failed package loading, missing SQL Intellisense, XAML designer failure...
Open Paradox database with Access or as SQL linked server
First and foremost, if you're using Office 2010, Paradox support has been removed ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179181.aspx ). You'll need Access 2007 or earlier. If you're reading this, then you've probably run in to a cryptic error...
DELL EMC AX4-5 vault drive upgrade
Ah, the DELL rebranded EMC Clariion AX4 (AX4-5SC, AX4-5, etc). It's awesome, but man do those Vault drives (and DELL/EMC support) make it so unfriendly. I’ll skip most of the background, and just get right to it. First and foremost: This is an account...
Beware: Group Policy DNS Settings
I like to keep my posts targeted at more obscure topics (at least that's my excuse for not posting more often), and this one is no exception. We have started the process of integrating several disparate companies as part of a corporate acquisition. We...
A New Era of Software
I was reading a post by Rob Chartier titled, "Microsoft needs to give developers a break...", and anyone whose been keeping up with news from Microsoft these days can easily assume that his post is talking about all of the new and soon-to-be software...
Halloween Horror: The SQL Timeout
I don’t know when it started or why, but I love Halloween (and autumn for that matter). So keeping the tradition of Halloween alive, I’ve decided to share some “horror” stories from the software/IT field over the next few weeks...
VB.NET Hexadecimal to Floating Point / Single (IEEE 754)
A post just came across the forum I frequent regarding Hexadecimal to Floating Point conversion. Strangely there appears to be no direct way to do this in .NET, and the solutions I found were pretty lame and tedious… so it became my mission to...
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