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Hi my name is Kym Phillpotts. I'm a computer geek, father and all-round nice guy who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Coming from a Microsoft background in software development my interests are largely in the .NET space, however, I'm currently learning as much as I can about the upcoming Windows 8. I am very fond of Agile Development practices and despite having a management role get real joy out of writing code and Agile leadership.
Using DBCC SHRINKFILE to shrink the transaction log Errors with ‘Cannot shrink log file 2 (LogFileName) because all logical log files are in use.’
I recently had a (relatively small, 4gb) database blow out with a transaction file of 160gb+. No matter what I tried I couldn’t truncate the logs and as a result I couldn’t shrink the file. Whenever I tried to run a DBCC SHRINKFILE to shrink the ...
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Windows 8 and Metro Resources
Here is a link to our collection of Windows 8 and Metro Resources. Lots of good stuff in there and free resources available at that link, or just use the Resources menu. It’s a work in progress that’ll keep growing so keep your eye on
Read More Hi my name is Kym Phillpotts. I'm a computer geek, father and all-round nice guy who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Coming from a Microsoft background in software development my interests are largely in the .NET space, however, I'm currently learning as much as I can about the upcoming Windows 8. I am very fond of Agile Development practices and despite having a management role get real joy out of writing code and Agile leadership.
You’re doing it wrong!!! Well some of it at least…
My current role has me involved in several projects utilising the Microsoft Dyanamics AX framework. As part of my work I wanted to use Team Foundation Server to automate a build procedure that wasn’t specifically .NET and would require a custom build template to pull ...
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Adding a toolbar button to restore window layouts in VS2010
I use multiple monitors at my place of work to spread my development environment over the largest area possible. I have the code window on my left monitor and all of the other tool windows like Solution Explorer on my right monitor. This gives me ...
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Visual Studio 2011 First Looks
Turns out that the Visual Studio 2011 Beta is just around the corner and information has come to hand about the design and features of the new UI. What can we say… It’s self consistent. grey-on-grey: The most interesting part for me is the decision to use ...
Read More Hi my name is Kym Phillpotts. I'm a computer geek, father and all-round nice guy who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Coming from a Microsoft background in software development my interests are largely in the .NET space, however, I'm currently learning as much as I can about the upcoming Windows 8. I am very fond of Agile Development practices and despite having a management role get real joy out of writing code and Agile leadership.
TFS Express to be free !
One of the gripes I often hear from my open-source, terminal-loving & beardy mates is the costs associated with developing with Microsoft technologies. Well that is about to change! Just announced on BHarry’s (MSDN) Visual Studio ALM blog, is the news that there is going to be a FREE ...
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First Metro Style Windows 8 App Using Javascript HTML5 and CSS
I just got around to building my first Windows 8 Application using Javascript, HTML and CSS. It’s a image viewer which queries Flickr for pictures of beards. It also incorporates live maps to show geolocation information attached to the photos. Why beards? Because these days beards ...
Read More Hi my name is Kym Phillpotts. I'm a computer geek, father and all-round nice guy who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Coming from a Microsoft background in software development my interests are largely in the .NET space, however, I'm currently learning as much as I can about the upcoming Windows 8. I am very fond of Agile Development practices and despite having a management role get real joy out of writing code and Agile leadership.
Visual Studio 2008 – SignTool reported an error SignTool Error: Signtool requires CAPICOM version 2.1.0.1 or higher. Windows 7 and regsvr32.
Today I ran into an interesting error while trying to deploy a new version of a ClickOnce application that I maintain. When publishing my solution from Visual Studio 2008 (9) the following error would occur: SignTool reported an error SignTool Error: Signtool requires CAPICOM version 2.1.0.1 ...
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Agile Backlash much?
On my searching of Responsive Web Design sites I came across this site: http://programming-motherfucker.com/ Besides being a good example of Responsive Web Design it’s also full of fantastic learning resources. Mainly I like the complete irreverence of the site, particularly the backlash on Agile. I can sympathise in a way, there ...
Read More Hi my name is Kym Phillpotts. I'm a computer geek, father and all-round nice guy who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Coming from a Microsoft background in software development my interests are largely in the .NET space, however, I'm currently learning as much as I can about the upcoming Windows 8. I am very fond of Agile Development practices and despite having a management role get real joy out of writing code and Agile leadership.
