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LucidChart and draw.io – useful, free drawing tools
Ever wanted to quickly throw together an architectural diagram, a UML diagram or any diagram for that matter? Not everyone has access to Visio or an advanced drawing tool. LucidChart…
svn cleanup failed–previous operation has not finished; run cleanup if it was interrupted
Usually, an svn cleanup fixes most issues with tortoise svn. However, I ran into an issue which caused me some grief. The specific error I was seeing: Previous operation has…
The Publish Subscribe Pattern in C# and some gotchas
This post does three things: Provides a complete implementation of the publish subscribe pattern in C#. Highlights 4 potential issues that are inherent to ANY publish subscribe implementation – including…
Outlook messages open up in MS Word
Here’s what happens – you open outlook to compose a new message (or reply to an existing one). Instead of Outlook as your editor, MS Word takes over at this…
Facebook– Essential Missing Functionality
For the world’s leading social networking site, these missing features are inexcusable: Unable to edit status updates (there's a trick that can be used on updates containing images - but…
iTunes 11–Missing sidebar and File menu
Not sure why these are hidden by default on the Windows version of iTunes. To recover the File menu bar –> CTRL B To recover the sidebar –> CTRL S…
C#, .NET Exception Handling Best Practices
The Problem Statement You have just started working on an existing codebase – an n-Tier project - and noticed that the Exception Handling framework wasn’t as well defined as you…
Automatically Expand Windows Explorer Navigation Pane (left pane)
Of the many things I miss in the Classic Windows View – the Windows Explorer navigation is one of them. In Windows 7, the navigation pane (the leftmost pane), does…
A flexible service oriented architecture that handles multiple platforms (multiple devices, multiple databases…)
The Problem Statement Imagine that you have just built a sophisticated application to work against a SQL Server database. You followed a best-practices approach and separated out your presentation, business…