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To the Cloud
To state that my net presence needed an upgrade would be the under statement of the decade. A quick glance at my legacy web site dashboard shows a perfect example of a static web site: Joomla! Version:...
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Heterogeneous Development Environment with Parallels Desktop® 7 for Mac
TL;DR – Purchase a 17” MacBook Pro, add two external monitors, install Parallels Desktop® 7 for Mac, and start developing software solutions for any environment (Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Microsoft .NET,...
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Light the Afterburners with WP Engine
TL; DR – You will enjoy rolling your own WordPress instance on Azure until you see the cost of scaling and maintaining the site. I decided to spend more time blogging and less time and money managing...
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Hierarchical Data with PetaPoco Multi-Poco Mapping
TL;DR – Sample ASP.NET MVC3 application demonstrating how to load hierarchical table data with a single SQL SELECT statement using PetaPoco’s Multi-Poco mapping feature. This blog post can be forked on...
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PetaPoco DoddleReport Dynamic PIVOT Query
TL;DR – Sample ASP.NET MVC3 application demonstrating how to load PIVOT query results as a dynamic object with PetaPoco and exporting the data to Excel using DoddleReport. This blog post can be forked...
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Server-Side Paging with PetaPoco and DataTables
TL;DR – Server-side paging of table data is not only faster and more responsive, but very easy to implement with PetaPoco and DataTables. I will demonstrate how millisecond response times are still...
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I blogged previously about Server-Side Paging with PetaPoco and DataTables, which works well for about 80% of the SQL statements that require server-side paging. In fact, I already submitted a pull...
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On .NET projects today, a common theme with setup and builds scripts is psake and Windows PowerShell. A development team member on my current project is a PowerShell Ninja, which prompted me to learn...
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Git Unite – Fix Case Sensitive File Paths on Windows
Git Unite is a utility that fixes case sensitive file paths present in a git repository index on Windows. Since Windows is not case sensitive, the git index case sensitivity issue does not manifest...
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How-To Fork Git Repositories on Visual Studio Online
Visual Studio Online Microsoft rebranded Team Foundation Service as Visual Studio Online with the launch of Visual Studio 2013 last fall. Visual Studio Online enables team collaboration using either...
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