Geek Bits Archives - Page 6 of 12

When Social Turns Anti-Social and The Price of a Book Is Too Cheap

As a software engineer and now CTO of my own technology company I watch what happens out there in the…

Posted on: July 7, 2014
By: jammer
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OSX Mavericks – WiFi – FIxed in 10.9.4?

This is good news! Seems that Apple have finally released an official fix to the WiFi issues introduced with Mavericks.…

Posted on: June 30, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Wrapping HttpClient

I've been recently revisiting a WebAPI client implementation that uses DotNetOpenAuth for authorising calls to an OAuth 2.0 protected WebAPI. …

Posted on: June 29, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Compile Time Checking for MVC Views

One advantage of MVC Razor could also be deemed a disadvantage. No comile time checking of views. I personally love…

Posted on: June 26, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Nuget Strikes Again

Honestly, for tool that's supposed to make life easier and more robust I find myself battling with it often. I've…

Posted on: June 18, 2014
By: jammer
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Windows Store

Hmm ... not much to say really. The UI sucks, it's sluggish to use and inaccurate. Why show me an…

Posted on: June 17, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

FireFox – Back on the Menu

So, I just updated to FireFox 30 and FireBug 2.0 ... So far, rock solid and none of the issues…

Posted on: June 17, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

BSOD!! Well, Well Old Friend

My Current Windows box is fantastic, runs like a dream and has done since I built it about 3 years…

Posted on: June 13, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Loading Entity Framework Navigation Properties with Stored Procedures

I don't see a lot of posts about this but it is possible to achieve. Classes Example Stored Procedure Using…

Posted on: June 6, 2014
By: jammer
With: 1 Comment

OpenSSL Hits The News Again

Good grief, this latest issue with OpenSSL (the library that keeps most of the internet encrypted and safe) is no…

Posted on: June 6, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

CSS3 – Safe to Use?

Just found this amazing site going through CSS3 and how to safely implement or ignore certain features due to varying…

Posted on: June 4, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

WWDC – Comments

I should start this by saying that I'm really not an Apple fan boy or a Microsoft fan boy or…

Posted on: June 4, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

WWDC – Well, Well!

Lots of very interesting things coming out of the WWDC, I've just finished watching the presentation. Seems Apple have been…

Posted on: June 2, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Google Chrome Auto Complete Hash! (autocomplete=”off”)

Hmm ... Not sure I like this one tiny bit Google. Google has decided that it's policy in regards to…

Posted on: June 1, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Entity Framework Code First Migrations and Running SQL Scripts

I suspect I'm not alone in that even though I'm using Code First for my data access there are points…

Posted on: June 1, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Enabling Entity Framework Code First Migrations ProviderIncompatibleException

Quite simple actually ... make sure the connection string in your config file is named the same as your context…

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

RIP FireFox (at least until v30 anyway).

That's it. I've stood by you and defended you but today was just it for me. I really don't know…

Posted on: May 30, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

OSX Mavericks Wi-Fi Not Reconnecting

OSX weirdness strikes again. In the year I've been using OSX I've been surprised a number of times by oddities…

Posted on: May 26, 2014
By: jammer
With: 1 Comment

OAuth 2.0 Covert Redirect “Issue”

So, rather than get all excited and lathered up about this horrid security flaw here is a great run down…

Posted on: May 25, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Mvvmcross (Mvx) Getting Started

I know the title suggests this is a guide on how to get started and since I haven't even started…

Posted on: May 24, 2014
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments