While I don’t plan to blog often, there are times during the course of my work when I run into a difficult technical problem whose solution, almost invariably, comes from someone else “out there”. This blog will attempt to collect some of those solutions, to make it easier for others with the same problem to find them.

I have been using Amazon’s cloud services for a large project I am working on, and I have to say…it is pretty sweet! Here is a little gotcha, however, that might help someone down the road. Continue Reading…

I really dislike the Windows Installer system. Really. Since I flipped over to the Mac and only run Windows for the stuff I really need to (like Visual Studio) inside Parallels, I really dread when I have to install something. In MacOS X it is so…painless. In Windows…root canal. Continue Reading…

I had an odd occurrence today. I was copying a relatively huge (50Gb), live, web site onto a USB drive using Transmit and, since it was going to take a while, I left it overnight. When I got to my desk this morning, my MacBook Pro was in an unhappy state. Even though I was copying to an external drive, Finder was complaining that my startup disk was almost full, and indeed it was. WTF? Continue Reading…

The above exception came up quite unexpectedly at a customer yesterday. WTF? This method certainly exists on my machine, and every other machine we tested on up until now? How can a core .NET function not exist?

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