I went to download my contact list for use in my shiny new CRM tool (more on that later), and the “download archive” button never became enabled. That’s because LinkedIn has a broken dusty corner where the feature apparently doesn’t work, but if you search the help, you can find the correct endpoint (which looks […]
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If you have been reading along, my last post was about Working Smart. Today, I followed that exact advice to evaluate 9 possible ideas, building out vision, team and shielding after prioritizing the top 3. In the previous article, I mentioned how your vision should be decomposed into steps – tasks that you can check
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That’s what they should call it. Normally, I would promote a brand through Instoll. That is kinda what I designed it to do, but wpmudev (casing optional?) hates affiliate links. OK. Fine fine fine. WPMUDev is a plugin provider for WordPress sites, and they have been around since back when WordPress was LetterPress and all
Ooooo, I am tipping my hand. Ha! One of the things that annoys me is how much work it takes to keep eyes on my portfolio. I would like to automate some of this effort. After a little research (and I do mean a little), I have decided to give Interactive Brokers a shot. I
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I thought to myself, “This should be fairly straightforward.” And, in my defense, in the year 2018, I think it should be a fairly benign task. I wanted to download some sample C# (“c sharp” for systems that break when trying to tokenize the hash sign) application code and run it on my laptop. But
Back in 2010, I was searching for ASP.NET controls for our team. One member of our group had used oBout and said they were inexpensive and effective. He was right… for an enterprise license, they are extremely inexpensive. And, as long you didn’t try to do too much with them, they could be quite effective.
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Hello – I know you can find free Split functions all over the web. But I wrote one anyway. I really like it. It is part of my search engine code which I might get around to sharing some day. The main reason I wrote this Split? Because I wanted to be able to
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Go ahead and fire up SQL Server (I have 2008 R2) and type the following into a query window (c’mon, you know you wanna): PRINT LEN(‘ ‘) Now run it (F5). 0 That’s right, no matter how many space you put in, the length is 0. This has apparently been around a while and a
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Bad News… OK, I read this post and it has me thoroughly pissed off… Basically neither SQL Server 2008 SP1 or SP2 are compatible with SQL Server 2008 R2. That is completely lame! I have work to get done, and I already lost an hour applying the Service Pack. Now, in order to attach my
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THE SETUP Pretend you want to open an app.config or web.config file. OK, normally, that is easy. But, let’s say you mange a bunch of config files, and you want to write a widget that can open any of them and edit them programmatically. That means opening a config file NOT part of your EXE
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