I’ve just finished a very large piece of work on one of my products. I desperately needed to have a MacOS offering and so I undertook an exercise of looking. read more…
So I’ve just gone through a complex and lengthy process of going cross platform. So when I needed to get the deployment part nailed, I reached for Advanced Installer. Within. read more…
Technofog (/tɛkˈnɒ/fɒɡ/) – the confluence of domain specific jargon, technical debt and knowledge gaps that negate sensible use of even familiar technologies at the start of a new job or. read more…
For some of us there has been a quiet war raging inside the Windows registry. The fight is over your shell overlay icons and their priority. I fought back! The. read more…
The last time I did any WordPress development was over a year ago so I no longer have PHP and MySQL installed. I started marching off down my well beaten. read more…
I recently got so fed up with DropBox trouncing all over my shell icon overlays that I decided to attempt a drastic action. Remove the write access to writing to. read more…
There’s really no doubt that Windows 7 updates have become a bit of a nightmare. Microsoft have been aggressively pushing Windows 10. Some of the stories that have been rolling. read more…
I have a fairly complex development environment for my current project and needed to allow some self-signed certificates to pass through the SSL certificate chaining process when calling from mobile. read more…
Hmm … not an awful lot to report … hardly anything “new” to play with / enjoy. But it did wreck my http.sys config which lost me a day. Thanks. read more…
So, shortly after upgrading my machine to Windows 10 I suffered a major fault with the installation of Windows on the OS SSD drive. No fault of Windows = User. read more…
Crazy? I don’t know yet but I decided to go for the upgrade to Windows 10 on day 1 … Most of the update motored through the process seemingly without. read more…
So as I blogged a few days ago about the issues I was having with getting to grips with all the issues I was having (which you can read here). read more…
So yesterday a new icon appeared in my Task Tray. A little Windows icon representing the Get Windows 10 App offering the free upgrade. Great! Er … not so fast.. read more…
This is actually quite a momentus occasion! Hearing that Microsoft is going to retire the IE brand is something I’ve been waiting to hear for years. From recent surveys it. read more…
So it’s the best … or at least was the best. *ahem* … I’ve used a LOT of virus applications in my time, free ones, commercial ones massive enterprise ones. read more…
Hmm, rather ambitious title there Jammer … Anyway, I’ve just started looking at building some iOS and Android (plus others in the future) development and have so opted to use. read more…
I’m slowly building up this default Subversion global ignore pattern for my Windows & Xamarin Development on Windows & OSX. Nothing too fancy but I’m going to keep this one. read more…
At last it appears that M-Audio has finally released public beta drivers for their older midi units. I was dreading having to buy a new midi interface considering how many. read more…
Hmm … developers usually use tools … yes? Getting this installed on Windows 7 by double clicking the MSI doesn’t appear to work. No, we have to run cmd.exe as. read more…
Porting WPF to AvaloniaUI
I’ve just finished a very large piece of work on one of my products. I desperately needed to have a MacOS offering and so I undertook an exercise of looking. read more…
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Advanced Installer FTW Again
So I’ve just gone through a complex and lengthy process of going cross platform. So when I needed to get the deployment part nailed, I reached for Advanced Installer. Within. read more…
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Technofog
Technofog (/tɛkˈnɒ/fɒɡ/) – the confluence of domain specific jargon, technical debt and knowledge gaps that negate sensible use of even familiar technologies at the start of a new job or. read more…
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Shell Overlay Icons – The Space Wars
For some of us there has been a quiet war raging inside the Windows registry. The fight is over your shell overlay icons and their priority. I fought back! The. read more…
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Docker + Windows + WordPress + MySQL + PHPMyAdmin = Nirvana
The last time I did any WordPress development was over a year ago so I no longer have PHP and MySQL installed. I started marching off down my well beaten. read more…
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Oh Dear, Borked Your Registry Key Permissions?
I recently got so fed up with DropBox trouncing all over my shell icon overlays that I decided to attempt a drastic action. Remove the write access to writing to. read more…
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Windows 7 Updates Roll-up
There’s really no doubt that Windows 7 updates have become a bit of a nightmare. Microsoft have been aggressively pushing Windows 10. Some of the stories that have been rolling. read more…
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Whitelist SSL Certificates in .NET for Xamarin / MvvmCross Apps
I have a fairly complex development environment for my current project and needed to allow some self-signed certificates to pass through the SSL certificate chaining process when calling from mobile. read more…
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Windows 10 Threshold 2 Update
Hmm … not an awful lot to report … hardly anything “new” to play with / enjoy. But it did wreck my http.sys config which lost me a day. Thanks. read more…
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Reinstalling Windows 10 After Upgrade
So, shortly after upgrading my machine to Windows 10 I suffered a major fault with the installation of Windows on the OS SSD drive. No fault of Windows = User. read more…
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Upgrading to Windows 10
Crazy? I don’t know yet but I decided to go for the upgrade to Windows 10 on day 1 … Most of the update motored through the process seemingly without. read more…
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Xamarin – The Baptism of Fire – Windows 7
So as I blogged a few days ago about the issues I was having with getting to grips with all the issues I was having (which you can read here). read more…
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Windows 8.1
Well I know, very late to the game on this one. Problem is I loved Windows 7 as much as I did Windows XP and since I have a lot. read more…
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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 offering the free upgrade. Great! Er … not so fast.. read more…
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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 been waiting to hear for years. From recent surveys it. read more…
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Anti-Virus – BitDefender
So it’s the best … or at least was the best. *ahem* … I’ve used a LOT of virus applications in my time, free ones, commercial ones massive enterprise ones. read more…
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Cross Platform Development w/ Xamarin & SVN Source Control on OSX
Hmm, rather ambitious title there Jammer … Anyway, I’ve just started looking at building some iOS and Android (plus others in the future) development and have so opted to use. read more…
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Subversion Global Ignore Pattern
I’m slowly building up this default Subversion global ignore pattern for my Windows & Xamarin Development on Windows & OSX. Nothing too fancy but I’m going to keep this one. read more…
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Windows 7 & Midisport 8×8 Drivers
At last it appears that M-Audio has finally released public beta drivers for their older midi units. I was dreading having to buy a new midi interface considering how many. read more…
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Installing SQL Management Studio Express on Windows 7
Hmm … developers usually use tools … yes? Getting this installed on Windows 7 by double clicking the MSI doesn’t appear to work. No, we have to run cmd.exe as. read more…
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