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7 Reasons not to use no-reply email address
There are still companies out there who use noreply@companyname.com which is wrong imho. Here are 7 reasons why:You won’t get out of office notices, because you are not listeningNoreply addresses won’t...
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How to start mining bitcoins the easy way
There are a lot of guides online on how to start mining bitcoins, and a lot of them require your pc running mining software and eating all resources or buying expensive dedicated hardware. This guide...
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Coding music
As a software developer, you need a headphone and music to get into the zone. If I have to explain what “the zone” is, you might consider skipping this blog. Mark Zuckerberg was in the zone in the...
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Move from WP to new Windows Phone
No one blogged about migrating from a Windows Phone to a new Windows Phone! There is no source online about this. I have used the amazing Nokia Lumia 920 for almost a year, but I have a Nokia Lumia 930...
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Lenovo Miix 2 tablet won’t power on
The Lenovo Miix 2 tablet is great if you look at the value you get for your money. I purchased one for work for just 196 euro at paradigit.nlIt took me a day to install all updates on the windows 8.1...
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Store settings in your universal Windows (Phone) app
This post covers storing and retrieving settings with a WPF combobox for the UI. If you are looking for a solution to store settings across devices, for instance a Windows Surface tablet and a Windows...
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iPhone 6 versus Lumia 830 or S5
Apple’s keynote was yesterday and revealed the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 plus, Apple watch and Apple pay. (Note: no iPay and iWatch) But I was a bit disappointed about the iPhone 6. It is not that high end as...
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Remote debugging Visual Studio 2013
The first step is of course install the remote debugging tools on the debug host http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bt727f1t.aspx#BKMK_Installing_the_Remote_Tools When I fire up the Visual Studio...
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SQL to JSON fast and clean C#
Microsoft SQL Server has the ability to format the query output to xml, which is great. I used version “Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (SP3) - 10.0.5500.0 (X64)” to output XML to have a nested data...
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Nuget DocX tabledesign enum
There are various options to build a word document in your C# code, I choose the lightweight docx nuget package. There are some really good examples on the Codeplex website of docx...
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Compare ad-networks for Windows Phone
I have developed several small apps for Windows Phone. Most of the time it is just to test how publishing an app works. I have developed an app for wp7, wp8.0, wp8.1 and universal apps and they are all...
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Skip dualboot menu Windows 8
Hyper-V disables the fastboot option. One of the main advantages of the surface pro is having the fastboot option, which disappears after having hyper-v enabled. Hyper-V is enabled if you install the...
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SqlCommands in a transaction
Lazy productive I as a developer am, I did not want to write a stored procedure. So I ended up with a lot of SQL statements which needed to be combined and executed only if the previous one...
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Surface 3 vs. Surface pro 3 vs iPad air 2 costs (in the Netherlands)
Surface 3 vs Surface Pro 3 costsAs a proud Surface Pro 3 user, I would like to point out why the Surface 3 (not pro) won’t make it in the Netherlands. There has been a dutch review on tweakers.net...
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When you forget to set a column to auto increment in SQL Server
If you add a new table and mark the ID column as primary key, but you forgot to set the int or bigint to auto increment, you can not fix this in the SQL Management Studio.There are several ways to do...
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iPad pro thoughts
Yesterday 9 September 2015 a three year old comic became reality: Jun 19, 2012 source http://hijinksensue.com/comic/surface-tension/ Apple released the Ipad Pro. It is a larger screen similar to the...
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Calculate km distance between two latitude longitude points from two floats
Having a store locator on my to do list, I started months back with storing the latitude and longitude for the stores in a database. I forked this repository in 2012...
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Manage users for webform auth missing option in Visual Studio
I have blogged about this in November 2013 which is almost 2 years ago. run as admin (windows key + X) command prompt as adminC:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\iisexpress.exe"...
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Macbook air 13” 4mot/4/40000002: exhaust-0
Well the title is clear right? I ran the Apple Hardware Test (AHT) because our model was from 2012.Switched off the macbook power on macbook press and hold ‘D’I ran the extended and more advance test...
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Nuget DocX tabledesign enum
There are various options to build a word document in your C# code, I choose the lightweight docx nuget package. There are some really good examples on the Codeplex website of docx...
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