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  • Focus

    For over 6 years, the title of this site was – “Fraction of the Blogosphere”. It was fitting when I first created it and for years that followed.. One thought I had is to transform this site to accommodate my… Continue reading

  • heroku cheat sheet quick start

    #note requires java 8. add the ppa repo for oracle and install this if you dont have it already. check your local with: java -version #create auth token for subsequent commands heroku login #from within a local git cloned app… Continue reading

  • javac invalid target release maven ant intellij netbeans eclipse

    You may see the following error when running maven or ant command or from intellij: javac: invalid target release: 1.8 This occurs because you are running a build target for a version of java that you do not have set… Continue reading

  • solarized color theme

    Parent site: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized Vim (standalone or with pathogen): https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized Visual Studio (also in main repo): https://github.com/leddt/visualstudio-colors-solarized IntelliJ (also in main repo): https://github.com/jkaving/intellij-colors-solarized Putty: Install the .reg files to use with new sessions or edit previous sessions following the provided instructions.… Continue reading

  • vimrc settings

    Located in ~/.vimrc If it doesn’t exist, create it! To see more info on these settings, from within vim: To format a file with mixed tabs and spaces, after applying the above settings, from within vim: Continue reading

  • Query Sql Version Microsoft MSSQL

    References https://support.microsoft.com/kb/321185 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/euanga/archive/2008/01/23/confused-by-sql-server-version-numbers.aspx Continue reading

  • ASP .NET Code Contracts Examples

    Reference http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2010/06/23/code-contracts.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264808(v=vs.110).aspx Continue reading

  • TPL Task Parrallel Library .net 4.0 parallel programming multi thread threading task queue user work item

    References http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460705.aspx (added 20121023 good comprehensive resource with illustrative examples) http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/362996/Multi-core-programming-using-Task-Parallel-Library http://www.codeproject.com/KB/threads/ParallelTasks.aspx Optimize Managed Code For Multi-Core Machines http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163340.aspx good blog http://www.codethinked.com/net-40-and-systemthreadingtasks queueuserworkitem http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4yd16hza.aspx threadpool class http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y5htx827.aspx task class http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.tasks.task.aspx task parrallelism http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd537609.aspx How to: Use Parallel.Invoke to Execute Parallel… Continue reading

  • Custom DAL Class SQL ORM ASP .NET

    (common.DataObject may be of your choosing or may simply replace with dynamic) Continue reading

  • Custom AWS S3 Helper Class AWSSDK Wrapper

    Implements some very commonly used AWS S3 functionality. (need to merge with my other AWS wrapper classes, Route53, EC2, etc) Continue reading