Dream(s) – Night of 2015-10-24
Dream 1 I was interviewing at a company and they gave us (many people were interviewing at the same time) giant transparent sheets with questions on them and you were supposed to sketch out your solutions on the transparency. One of the questions went something like “Provide a mobile...
How to Get the Date of a DateTime in SQL Server
Pretty simple really. Try this SQL: SELECT CONVERT(nvarchar(20), GetDate(), 101); or SELECT CONVERT(nvarchar(20), CAST(‘2008-04-04 16:07:07.920’ AS DateTime), 101); If you need to use it in a comparison you can easily do something like WHERE CONVERT(nvarchar(20), MyDateColumn, 101) BETWEEN @DateFrom AND @DateTo Enjoy!...
Sharepoint / MOSS / VPC Info
I need a place to keep track of all the good resources I’ve been finding on how to get a VirtualPC image running for SharePoint Developement. Here goes: How to Build a SharePoint Development Machine: Long list of steps and tools to getting a development SharePoint server up and...
VB.NET Version of Custom Configuration Sections
Today at work I needed to add a custom configuration section to a 2.0 ASP.NET / VB.NET project. After looking around, almost al the examples weren’t in VB. The the best article I found was at (not surprisingly) 4Guys. Anyway, the sample code was C#, so I had to convert...
Behringer B5 Disassembly
My Behringer B-5 microphone started making some weird thumping noises recently. After doing some cable swapping, and creative hookups between my preamp and a pair of headphones, I became 90% sure that it was the microphone making these weird noises. Also, the noises seem to be intermittent, so my...
ADAL 1.0.8
ADAL 1.0.8 Changes CodeGen Logic in seperate assembly. This will make lots of things easier (for me), but most notably it will allow easy creation of other projects that use the ADAL library (like a web-based version). Option to save password with project file. You shouldn’t be using a...
Coppermine Demo Fixed?
Hi all, Here’s the link to what I think is a fixed version of the Coppermine 1.3 demo package, which I have called 1.3.1. Here’s what I did to fix, that way someone can tell me if it’ll cause any problems. It seems to work for me, but I’m...
Pitfalls of Automatic Update Utilities
Usually I’m a proponent of Microsoft. I generally like their developmet tools, and enjoy writing in .NET because of all the useful things I can accomplish with it. But today they pissed me off a little bit. I was trying to figure out how to interface with Exchange Server...
ADAL 1.0.7a
Not much to report, just that I accidently removed the icon for the ADAL exe, so the last release went out without it. So if you really were attached to that awesome icon, you can go re-download ADAL. -Andrew...
ADAL 1.0.7
You can download now, or read and download at the bottom (recommended, lol) ADAL Version 1.0.7 was released today. Additions and fixes are included are: – Fixed bug in PopulateFromReader that caused an error when calling the SELECT method of DAL objects. The call to PopulateFromReader was not inside...