Recently, I needed to figure out a way to convert the size of a file, which is being returned in bytes, to a string representation. So, given a file size in bytes like 349792 the string “342KB” would be returned. Inspired by the following StackOverflow post, I came up with this JavaScript version. function fileSizeToString(size) … [Read more…]
After installing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1, I noticed that intellisense had stopped working in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2. The issue was noted in Scott Guthrie’s blog, a few weeks ago. I discovered today that a hotfix is available from Microsoft as a part of SQL Server 2008 R2 cumulative update 7. … [Read more…]
As I’m an avid reader, I decided to start sharing weekly recaps of my reading list. This will often include articles I’ve found interesting, but also items related to the projects I’m currently involved with. The subject matter may vary, but I hope others will find them useful, or better yet as a way to … [Read more…]
I was reading the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview release notes, and was happy to see that SVG is listed among its supported features. It’s one of those features that have been dubiously missing from previous versions of the browser. This has forced many developers to opt for VML when rendering to Internet Explorer, which … [Read more…]
I was recently asked by a colleague if it was possible to run a 64-bit guest operating system on a 32-bit host. The question was specifically geared towards running Windows 2008 R2, via VMware Player, on Windows XP. Yes you should definitely be able to run a 64-bit virtual machine on a 32-bit host like … [Read more…]
I’ve been reading the High Scalability blog quite a bit lately. After reading several articles over the past couple of weeks, I’m wondering where are all the web startups that are using the Microsoft stack? I believe .NET is a very productive platform on which a successful web-based product can be built, and I really … [Read more…]
Although I had more than enough room remaining on the 250GB Serial ATA drive that came with my MacBook Pro, I decided to upgrade the hard drive to a 500GB 7200 RPM drive. My main reason for doing this is that I wanted a faster drive, since the previous drive ran at 5400 RPM. After … [Read more…]
Shawn Adrian has been kind enough to freely share a few images that he has created in Photoshop. Check them out.
Recently, I wrote a utility to extract dehydrated messages from a BizTalk 2006 environment. As part of the process, I needed to figure out what folder the BizTalk software was installed in. Below is a function I quickly wrote to retrieve the BizTalk installation path from the Windows registry. I thought it might be something … [Read more…]
So, for the 3 people who read my blog, if that many.You may have noticed that it was down for a couple of weeks. I’ve been in the process of moving away from hosting my blog at home to a more reliable host (anything is more reliable than that). I wanted to host from home, … [Read more…]