Exploration of Thought

Our team is having this really odd problem with not being able to install apps in their VPC instances once the app has joined the domain at a client. The error message we get is. “Please wait while the installer finishes determining your disk space requirements.”   No matter how long you wait, nothing happens.…

I’ve started a new online group: MNGroups. This group is a culmination of many different groups throughout the Minnesota area. The reason for the group is simple: Collaboration. Here in the Twin Cities we have many different groups that help solve a vast array of different problems but unfortunately we don’t have a group that…

I’ve decided to start a pragmatic beer group/gathering. What is Pragmatic Beer? Pragmatic Beer is social event in which various technologists gather to "talk shop" and drink beer (or your drink of choice). A pragmatic beer event is similar to a "Geek Dinner" where a group of individuals gather once a month at a predetermined…

Recently when working with some co-workers I was flying through some menus and whipping out some code at a breakneck speed and a couple asked how I was doing it so quickly. Simple – Resharper’s live templates. I’m surprised I haven't posted these before, but for whatever reason here they are. The NUnit templates are…

I needed a way to set up developer machines quick for access to a new Team Foundation Server rollout awhile back. Normally to set up a workspace on each dev’s machine I’d have to do the following: A. Teach everyone how to set up workspaces B. Show them how to get latest C. Hope they…

I’ve got another Dime Cast up here. The theme of this Dime Cast is Learning how to consume a WCF Service.   View the Dime Cast here.

Ran into an interesting problem today and the links I found on the net did not help me resolve the issue. The Error The SessionStateTempDataProvider requires SessionState to be enabled.   How To Fix To see what the problem was I ran a quick “File – New MVC App” and fired it up. It worked.…

I’ve had this error pop up nearly 20 times when setting up CCNET through the years. Unfortunately I never notated what I had to do to fix it. I usually just spent 20 minutes banging my head against the wall trying to figure it out. Then when I finally do figure it out I never…

Event Aggregator - What is it? The event aggregator in Prism is an implementation of the Event Aggregator pattern. Fowler explains the Event Aggregator pattern as follows:  Channel events from multiple objects into a single object to simplify registration for clients. Microsoft also has a link for this pattern as well, its located here. Here's…

I've been using a social network of sorts for as long as I've been using the Internet. From bulletin boards to Twitter, I've been there and still use them all to this day. Their importance is worth its weight in diamonds. Through the years of using these networks user patterns have developed and I've grown…

I had a real rookie JavaScript mistake in my Store Locator project that was causing some people some grief. I had no idea this project was actually being used by many people for real live stores and companies. That's kind of cool (until it breaks). Anyway, something changed (somewhere - probably the Google Maps API)…

This is really old news to some blogger's,but I'm posting it again because a lot of people I know are just starting off in the blogging space.  If you have a blog you're probably wondering how many people are reading it. You can get some decent statistics from your feed (RSS/ATOM, etc). However, most blog…