How to Disable AVG Antivirus in Vista

I was unable to temporarily stop AVG antivirus in Vista until I saw this tip from highmastodon: Shut down AVG Control Center by right-clicking the AVG icon in your taskbar & […]

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Visual Studio 2008 Virtual PC Performance Tips

So apparently if I start a blog post but don’t submit it within an hour or two my session times out & I lose the post. Nice. Anyhow, performance has […]

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Slicehost and Securing SSH

SliceHost and Affordable Linux Hosting I’m trying out a new provider, SliceHost, for the upcoming Portland Open Coffee Club and Portland Open Beer Club web sites. SliceHost provides fast & […]

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Subversion: Merging Changes from a Branch into the Trunk

We don’t branch or tag super often, usually just on major releases, experimental code, or not-yet-ready code. But sometimes you’ll have changes in a branch that you want to merge […]

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Portland Open Beer Club is this Thursday, April 10, 5pm, at Bailey's Taproom

Portland Open Beer Club (a spinoff of the Open Coffee Club) is meeting this Thursday 5pm at Bailey’s Taproom, 213 SW Broadway, Portland, OR. It’s an informal meetup where entrepreneurs, […]

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SQL Server Management Studio – Export Query Results to Excel

The easiest way I’ve found involves two steps: Adjust SSMS Settings Go to Tools->Options Query Results->SQL Server->Results to Grid Check “Include column headers when copying or saving results” Click OK. […]

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Linq to SQL: Cast Stored Procedure Results to Table Entities

So you can probably tell that I’ve been doing a lot of LINQ lately. 🙂 One thing I’ve found is that it’s easier for me to write complex queries in […]

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