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I noticed the fans in my Macbook Pro were running excessively. When looking at Activity Monitor, I noted that the Dock was using 100% of the CPU. A quick search on Google, and I found the culprit to be Parallels. The root cause is an issue with the graphics API between OS X 10.6.8 and Parallels Desktop 6. I had indeed...
If you want to handle events when working with System.Diagnostics.Process -- for example, the Exited event -- you have to first enable the raising of events using the EnableRaisingEvents property on Process...
Bit by yet another not-so-well documented "feature" in Microsoft .Net. We were compiling in release mode for QA, since we've seen other behavioral differences between debug and release. We also wanted to emit the line numbers in the stack trace so the engineers would have a better idea of what caused the error. We added the...
A recent project required the need to store an unsigned 64-bit integer in a SQL Server database table. BIGINT won't cut it because BIGINT has a max value of 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 (signed 64-bit integer), and the unsigned 64-bit integer's max value is 18,446,744,073,709,551,615. The solution...
It was time to upgrade the virtual machine host at Milestone. Since most of our critical systems are hosted, the server(s) here didn't need to be anything to extreme. The servers in house are development and test lab related. The goals for the upgrade were to:
CentOS/Red Hat 5.5 on Hyper-V R2 seems to work quite well. The trick is to download the Linux Integration Services from Microsoft and follow the install guide before creating the VM. The guide provides specific installation guidelines for creating/configuring the VM and installing the OS itself...
Or should I say "unable to install MySQL 5.5 on Mac OS X". My first attempt at installing MySQL on Mac was with MySQL 5.1 on Snow Leopard. That worked as expected and without any issues. MySQL 5.5, however, was a bit tricky...
I ran into the need to start a VMware Server 2.0 virtual machine from the command line. The vmrun command uses the data store name to locate the vmx file. Unfortunately, the system documentation wasn't readily available, so I needed to determine what stores were configured...
If you're developing WCF applications that will run over a WAN, VPN, or the public internet, then network bandwidth and latency is a concern. Messages take longer to transmit over these networks than over your local area network (LAN). As such, part of your development and testing needs to include testing the application over these typed of "slower" connection...
