Okay, so I like the new Gmail design – cleaner and more whitespace – just looks much more modern that the existing one. But it’s still bloody annoying ! The thing is, I hate having to go across to the little ‘back arrow’ reply icon, click the dropdown next to it, just to get to [...]
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Drag and Drop from a TreeView to a DataGridView
April 29th, 2011
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An application I was working on recently needed the ability for the user to drag a TreeView node onto a DataGridView, and when ‘dropped’ create a new row in the DataGridView. It is not difficult, but took me a while to put all the relevant pieces together, so I thought I’d post it in case [...]
Android Development / Hundred Pushups App
April 28th, 2011
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This is a bit of a mixed post, Eclipse / Android development versus Visual Studio / Windows development, and a bit of self promotion of my ‘Hundred Pushups’ app. I have been a fan of the Hundred Pushup Challenge for some time, having done weeks 3 – 6 a number of times and completed the [...]
CurrentCost Power Monitor Software – Take 2
September 27th, 2010
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This post is an update to my previous one about the CurrentCost Energy Monitor and the software I built for it. After posting brief details about it, I agreed with the guys over at the MSDN Coding for Fun site to write a full project article for them. The suggested a couple of changes – [...]
CurrentCost Power Monitor Software
May 11th, 2010
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I recently bought a device to monitor our household energy consumption. After looking at a few I lumped for a CurrentCost Envi. this is a great little device that comes in two parts – a transmitter with jaws that wrap around the main power cable coming into your home and a desktop display unit. The [...]
Install Windows from a USB Drive
April 3rd, 2010
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This post is for my own benefit more than anything. I frequently have to ‘google’ for the instructions to make a bootable USB drive to install some version of Windows from. So, to save time in the future, here are the instructions : Open a command prompt As Administrator. Run diskpart. Enter list disk – [...]
Enabling virtualization when booting from VHD
November 23rd, 2009
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I ran into some trouble with Hyper V the other day – I had booted from a VHD into Windows Server 2008 R2 and was trying to start a VM – I got the usual ‘The virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running” error.I had just had a BIOS failure [...]
Dual Boot is Dead – Long Live Boot from VHD
November 10th, 2009
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It is official, dual booting is now dead – Boot from VHD is the new king. On my flight to BoS2009, I was inadvertently reliving some nostalgic milestones from the past 10 nay 20 years. I had my Windows 7 laptop, booted from a VHD (see Scott’s great post for some easy instructions on how [...]
WebApp KeepAlive Service
September 26th, 2009
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Recently I have been working with DotNetNuke. This is a superb open source CMS platform running on ASP.NET with a SQL back end, simple to install, easy to use and there is a thriving community around it. It is also available in a ‘Professional’ version which costs around £2000 per year and provides additional workflow [...]
Exchange 2010 Store Compression
August 14th, 2009
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One of the things I (for I read we) have been working on recently (at my day job) is looking at the ‘Store Compression’ feature in Exchange 2010. Store Compression is a new feature in Exchange 2010 whereby some of the content of an email object is compressed as it is inserted into the Exchange [...]
