July 2011
2 posts
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Automatic assembly versioning solution - MSBuild... →
Nice small project for automatic build versioning. It was always a problem for me, but now the problem is solved once and for all! It supports nicely both Mercurial and SVN repositories to retrieve revision number and/or ID. Check Tokens page for more custom tags.
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MVC Mini Profiler with Entity Framework and SQL...
Recently I was trying to use MVC Mini Profiler released by Stack Overflow folks with my site on ASP.NET MVC 3 framework and had some problems to use its all features, because I had a little specific setup (more on that a bit later).
It was a piece of cake to use it for profiling usual code with:
using (MiniProfiler.Current.Step("Some profiling step description"))
Everything worked like a...
April 2011
1 post
List of the canonical introductory textbooks... →
February 2011
2 posts
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Could not load file or assembly '' or one of its...
Today I stuck with the following problem: when I run my web project through local dev server or IIS Express — everything is fine, but when I host it through IIS, I get “Could not load file or assembly ‘<some assembly name>’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.”
One crucial detail: my server is 64-bit.
The...
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Silverlight memory leaks finding
Quick post to not forget :)
Article (mentions x86 WinDbg installation under x64 OS): http://dotnetspeak.com/index.php/2010/09/using-windbg-to-find-memory-leaks-in-silverlight-applications/
Also quick cheatsheet:
.load C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Silverlight\4.0.60129.0\sos.dll !dumpheap -stat !dumpheap -MT <mt> !gcroot <addr>
October 2010
1 post
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Slow Visual Studio 2010 tab closing
If you experience this issue try to add your project’s folder to your antivirus location exception. I have Microsoft Security Essentials and this slowness irritated me for quite some time until I accidentally found on some forum this advice. And it really helped me (after reboot, actually, but I think it depends on antivirus).
Hope it helps you as well.
Update: just found interesting...
September 2010
1 post
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mercurial with ssh setup on windows →
Mercurial setting up for serious work under Windows :)
August 2010
1 post
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Kubuntu stuff
I recently decided to completely switch to Kubuntu as my main OS and while it is really user-friendly comparing to the dark times when I first tried *nixes, still it lacks tiny bits and some tuning, so I’ll gather different useful links to posts, tutorials and how-to’s that helped me to make work and “living” in Kubuntu more pleasant.
My Perfect Kubuntu 10.04 Desktop
How...
June 2010
1 post
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Silverlight and tcp.net bindings for WCF
I’m working with Silverlight 4 on my work for quite some time (from early betas).
And I was wondering about new cool feature of the Silverlight 4 - tcp.net binding. But it seems using it is quite more involved than BasicHttpBinding, but still - I want to understand it and use on my Silverlight project. Here I’ll post some useful links I’ve found - they are for me, just to not...
January 2010
9 posts
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WatchI’ve finally made it! Now I can read distance to the closest object with the help of ultrasonic range finder Devantech SRF10. It took two days to make it work and communicate (actually it is due to my own stupidity…) and a lot of help from my father! Thanks, dad! On this video you can see how things look like now. You can see that I reworked LEDs so they look much more solid :) and...
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WatchRight now there is no video available, sorry! I’ll upload it today-tomorrow when I’ll get access to my camera. (8
Yesterday I spent few hours late at night to make this thing. (8 I prefer to think about it as a “debug console” to output some numbers rather than just some funny set of useless LEDs… Right now it is 6-bit capable, but tomorrow I’ll buy one more...
Technonecrophilia and nostalgy in IT sphere -... →
Michael Vincent created Windows 3.1 with pure Javascript… Isn’t it to the same degree cool, nostalgic and useless?..
Interesting, who worked in Windows 3.1 or 3.11? Leave comments, please, ancient IT-guys! (;
Other robotics hardware we have here in LNU →
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Amazing "home" physics →
Steve Sprangler demonstrates some very cool and interesting experiments, most of which you could do on your own!!!
One more useful look from the hights of experience
I haven’t been posting since my first blog post for quite a while, so I decided to post at least something more or less useful and/or interesting to somebody else to not forget about my intention to become at least lazy blogger. :)
I just read an interesting article, written by Jonathan Danylko, entitled “20/20: Top 20 Programming Lessons I’ve Learned in 20 Years”.
I...
November 2009
1 post
My bit to populating distributed version control...
I guess everyone, who knows what is programming not only from school or university classes, have heard about version control systems (VCS). At the time, I guess I won’t make mistake if I say that the most popular one is Subversion. It was developed as the evolved replacement for CVS, older VCS. But both CVS and Subversion are quite old and even if subversion is good enough for many...