Category: Technology
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Back to High Resolution
I have a Dell U3011 Monitor that is capable of displaying resolution of 2560×1600. However, when I purchased a Lenovo X1 Carbon a while back I could never find a way to do that. From this post: My Dell U3011 Monitor Won’t Display 2560×1600, you can see that you must use the DisplayPort cable. The…
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Switching Virus Software
Headline: I used avast! in the past but now use Bitdefender Antivirus Plus combined with Malwarebytes Pro. Bloat I’ve used avast! for many years now. They had a nice bundle since I have so many PCs and did a great job at virus scanning. But as the years went on it had more and more…
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Natural Flow
Headline: This post is a follow-on post to the Speed – The 2-second Rule post, however this post describes the problem of providing a satisfying experience for our customer with analogies rather than logic and numbers. A Satisfying Golf Game On rare occasions I enjoy the game of golf – chasing a small ball around…
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Speed – The 2 Second Rule
Headline: As developers our goal should be that all operations (except for things like batch imports) should return control to the user in less than 2 seconds. Overview This has been a rule of mine since 1999 when I first started to really get involved seriously in development (coding, not just managing) again. It was…
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Windows 8 Pro has Hyper-V
I had need this weekend for a virtual machine (VM). I wanted to carry it with me, but I also wanted it to be a 64-bit VM. I’m a relative novice when it comes to VMs. There will be many posts I suspect that point to many of the details for setting up VMs and…
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Is My CodeCoverage.runsettings file wrong?
Headlilne: Microsoft has a new .RunSettings file to replace the previous .TestSettings file so that you can use it with other systems (like NUnit), more easily support Team Build, and improve performance (among other motivations). But does it work yet? I cannot get the GeneratedCode attribute to prevent code coverage analysis of the code. There…
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Don’t Swallow Exceptions
You might be swallowing exceptions if: Your method returns a bool indicating success or failure Your method returns an integer code of some sort Your method has a try/catch block Your method has an out parameter Your method has a ref parameter Overview This post is my view of best practices for error handling in…
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Providing Lync 2013 Feedback
Headline: Go to http://input.microsoft.com/lync2013/sas/feedback to provide feedback. Details When I would select Help –> Give Feedback in Lync 2013 – both Beta and Release as shown below: I would get this error message: “Cannot perform the action because the related web page was not available from your Internet browser. If you have not selected a…