Attempting to keep up with the 21st Century, my new laptop came with Windows 8.
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Project Types – MVC 2 and MVC 3
Visual Studio ends up having a bit of a hissy fit if the project file has the incorrect project type. This appears to be especially common between MVC 2 and MVC3, where your project may have MVC3 binaries, but the MVC2 project type. Visual Studio 11 simply refuses to open...
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Entity Framework Gotchas – Strategies for Orphaned Child Objects
Entity Framework provides a powerful framework for expressing relations between objects mapped to the database, but it is not without its shortcomings. One particular theme does keep coming around – removing child objects from parents.
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Tall Paul & Gemini Giant
For our honeymoon, Cat and I spent twelve days in Florida (awesomely paid for by friends and family). Whilst there, we picked up two mugs from a target store.
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Occasional Vim Tip #1
First in a series of occasional vim tips, as and when I feel like them.
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Treating A Sore Throat
Disclaimer: I claim no medical training. All advice given here is based on my own, highly personal opinion of going through a few days of hell. If any of it helps, great. If some of it happens to kill you, I accept no liability.
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Fencing Equipment – What To Buy, When To Buy, How To Buy
As Sheffield’s first batch of beginners finished their course just before Christmas and have now moved in to the main club, I’m now being asked questions about buying kit.
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FingerWorks TouchStream LP
Random musing.
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SSH on Android
There are a few SSH clients out there for Android, ConnectBot being the most popular and BTEP also proving popular. Both of these provide good front end interfaces, but suck on keyboard support. There’s nothing more frustrating than pressing Ctrl on a bluetooth keyboard, only for it to behave entirely...
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Who Needs a Laptop? Photo Management on Android
Who Needs A Laptop?
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