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UI Flow
Posted on Tuesday, 16th April, 2013
Often, we use wire-framing or mock-up tools (like the good guys at Balsamiq) to help communicate design ideas between developers as well as to clients. However, there is a need for something more efficient to aid communication of possible user interface flows through our emerging application. This communication is for internal use typically and doesn’t [...]
Water Monitoring & Metering CRM
Posted on Wednesday, 10th April, 2013
Ogham Engineering Ltd.: A bespoke water metering and monitoring web-hosted application to offer tenants and landlords alike access to up-to-the-minute status on water consumption.
Getting Parallels 7 to play nice with Windows 8
Posted on Friday, 8th February, 2013
One of the challenges of working in the Mac environment while developing in Microsoft technologies is getting the VM machine working as you want. Being a fan of keyboard shortcuts, it’s a major PITA if the key mappings aren’t set as you’d expect, especially as I move routinely between Mac and Windows PC.
So, with my [...]
SQL Express Local Attach Problem
Posted on Friday, 8th February, 2013
There’s an issue when you try to attach a local MDF SQL database file to the local instance of SQL Express. VS typically will insert a USER INSTANCE = true into the connection string that it generates when you add the LINQ-to-SQL or ADO.NET Entity modelling to your project.
The connection to the database as attached [...]
Azure – First Steps
Posted on Sunday, 25th November, 2012
My putting a toe in the water of Azure. Love the interface, very slick and well thought out – looks like Scott Gu kicked the team into action. Here’s a few very ‘MS’ tricks that I’ve overcome so far:
Using SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio 2008) isn’t a great place to start. Upgrade to 2008 R2 [...]
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