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Restoring YouTrack Backups

I love JetBrains software, I really do. How I'd get by without ReSharper is anyone's guess but they are not…

Posted on: June 21, 2015
By: jammer
With: 11 Comments

Why are Hardware Manufacturers Web Sites and Documentation Like Black Holes?

As some one that has built a large number of PCs and servers over my career I'm constantly surprised by…

Posted on: June 21, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

The Apple Developer Clique

I'm genuinely gobsmacked by this. I applied for the Apple Developer program a couple of weeks ago on behalf of…

Posted on: June 20, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

PCL Profile 259 in Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 7, Xamarin, MvvmCross & ReSharper 7.1

Well, today was a lot of fun. You can tell just how much fun from the ridiculous title of this…

Posted on: June 19, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Downloads Broken – Fixed

Must put an apology online. I've had a few enquiries today as to why some of the code examples on…

Posted on: June 17, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Should I Download MacKeeper?

I'll cut to the chase - NO, DO NOT DOWNLOAD this "software". MacKeeper is one of those apps that seems…

Posted on: June 10, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Code Reviewing – Xamarin Components and MvvmCross Plugins

At the moment I'm working through the implementation of a mobile application build on top of the Xamarin platform targeting…

Posted on: June 7, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Unit Tests in User Configurable Applications

Yesterday was another one of those little lessons in Unit Testing. In one of the applications I work on there…

Posted on: June 6, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Get Windows 10 App & Skype Login Broken Fix

So yesterday a new icon appeared in my Task Tray. A little Windows icon representing the Get Windows 10 App…

Posted on: June 2, 2015
By: jammer
With: 1 Comment

Facebook Suspended My Account – The Real Name Policy Fiasco

So I went to log into my Facebook account the other day and was presented with a message saying that…

Posted on: May 21, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Xamarin Pairing Visual Studio 2012 to Mac for iOS Builds

Well, this was a bit of a pain in the arse. When I initially paired Visual Studio 2012 to my…

Posted on: May 16, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Apple MacBook Pro 85w MagSafe 2 PSU

So last Sunday my PSU died. I don't know if it's something about luck or what but in all my…

Posted on: March 25, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Microsoft to Retire IE – Project Spartan

This is actually quite a momentus occasion! Hearing that Microsoft is going to retire the IE brand is something I've…

Posted on: March 22, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Anti-Virus – BitDefender

So it's the best ... or at least was the best. *ahem* ... I've used a LOT of virus applications…

Posted on: March 20, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

WordPress & IIS Permalinks

When hosting a Wordpress site under IIS you can run into some troubles when not getting things set-up exactly right.…

Posted on: March 7, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Shopify

So we've just had the pleasure of building my first Shopify application for a client project. Am I impressed? Very.…

Posted on: March 7, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Compiling Blender on Mac

So I decided that after all these years I would like to start looking at and contributing to an open…

Posted on: February 13, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

EVGA GTX580 Classified Overclocking – Blender Benchmarks

Over the last few weeks I've been playing around with MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision x16 to see what I…

Posted on: February 11, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

App Store Repeating Updates

So I had a number of apps installed on the MacBook that kept asking to be updated repeatedly. Tried every…

Posted on: December 31, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Enabling CSS Hover Selector on Touch Enabled Devices

Most web developers and designer make use of this common CSS selector to help make pages easier to consume by…

Posted on: November 8, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments