Portland Code Camp 2.0

FYI, I’ll be speaking at Portland Code Camp 2.0 this year, talking about incorporating AJAX functionality into ASP.NET applications. July 22nd & 23rd at WSU’s Vancouver campus. It’s free for […]

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Google Calendar Monitor Released!

Overview The DevelopmentNow Google Calendar Monitor is a simple desktop application that synchronizes with your Google Calendar and pops up hard-to-miss, snoozable reminders for your events. You can also add […]

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WinZip can do automatic compression and backup jobs?!

Ok, so this is funny. A few days ago I blogged about trying in vain to find software that would automatically back up my important files, ignore the ones that […]

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Update: SQL Backups from the Command Line

Since I’ve started using an offsite backup service, I’ve been feeling better about my disaster recovery ability. However, I wanted to ensure that my files stayed small so that a) […]

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log4net Dashboard and log4net Viewer

Just ran across a tool to more easily read log4net files. There’s a free single-user version apparently. log4net Dashboard / Viewer

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log4net and Visual Studio 2005 — quick and easy

So you have an ASP.NET application and want to do some custom logging other than by using Response.AppendToLog(). Or maybe you have a console app that you want to log what […]

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Skype and IIS Port 80

In order to work on the largest user base possible (who often are behind routers and firewalls), Skype will listen on port 80 and prevent IIS (and other services) from using […]

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