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Testing Spark Streaming code ingesting data from Kusto, using ScalaTest
Mr. Marcin Kuthan has a post on testing Spark Streaming code that, in production, would be ingesting...
Date: 05/31/2017
Enable Intel Virtualization Technology under Windows 8 ... and still have a working USB keyboard
This morning, I set about installing the Windows Phone SDK on a Windows 8 64-bit desktop. The...
Date: 08/25/2013
Jon Duckett's "HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites:" Go from CSS zero to hero in an evening
Whenever I've developed Web applications, which I used to do all the time and now do only...
Date: 10/03/2012
Displaying a downloaded icon
Let's say that you want your Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) application to display an icon that...
Date: 12/31/2011
Working around a WebBrowser ActiveX control resize bug of which you may or may not have been aware
If you are hosting the WebBrowser ActiveX control in a native code application (perhaps following...
Date: 12/31/2011
Steve Jobs ...
... you so changed the world ... thanks for making lives like mine possible. RIP.
Date: 10/05/2011
A Windows Communication Foundation JSONP Service
All of the samples I've found that show how to build a JSONP service using the Windows Communication...
Date: 08/13/2011
Integrating a desktop application with Windows Live
If one searches the Web for samples of how to integrate a desktop application with Windows Live,...
Date: 07/15/2011
The Artificial Intelligence Oxymoron
I'm reading Stephen Levy's wonderful book about Google, In the Plex. In the account of the...
Date: 05/21/2011
Two IE 9 Tips
Selecting a Particular Home Page in Internet Explorer 9: I have 5 home pages that I add to Internet...
Date: 03/23/2011
Re-discovering '1984'
I can't listen to Goldfrapp, The Ting Tings, and The Scissor Sisters exclusively. Goldfrapp's art,...
Date: 01/22/2011
In-Process Transport for the Windows Communication Foundation
I recently had a case where a thread running under one identity would process data periodically...
Date: 01/21/2011
Who's cryin'? Who's cryin' now?
Everyone. RIP Gerry Rafferty. Done too soon.
Date: 01/06/2011
WeatherBug Live Tile is back ...
... Once I added a new location, set that as my Live Tile location, confirmed Live Tile update, and...
Date: 01/06/2011
WeatherBug Push/"Live Tile" Notification for Windows Phone has been broken for about a week now ...
... which explains why I find myself surprised that it has actually been clear and freezing in...
Date: 01/02/2011
Selecting a Windows Phone device
Of the very many people I know who have Windows Phones, all of them except one opted for the Samsung...
Date: 01/02/2011
Controlling the orientation of a Windows Phone (Hacking the accelerometer)
Windows Phones, by definition, are equipped with an accelerometer for detecting the physical...
Date: 01/02/2011
Santa Cookies: Always my favorite part of the holiday season
After nearly twenty-years, I'm always delighted when my wife treats us to her Santa cookies:
Date: 12/18/2010
Forget Patterns ... What matters are software maintenance practices
Software Engineering is Still a Risky Enterprise The problems in being able to produce and maintain...
Date: 02/03/2010
The Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet is terrific
I've been interested, recently, in improving my digital art skills from their current state of being...
Date: 10/18/2009
Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Careful of how you use those question-and-answer gates
One of the features of Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" is self-service password re-set....
Date: 10/20/2008
Body of Lies
I read a lot of spy fiction. I have observed that the sociology of an espionage organization, as...
Date: 10/20/2008
Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Some definitions you may find useful
Requests In the argot of Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager, a request is a request to perform...
Date: 10/20/2008
A Fifteenth-Century Dilbert Cartoon
Reading Judith Barker's excellent Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England, I came across...
Date: 10/20/2008
Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Why am I able to talk about it now?
That I am able to spend time blogging about Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" has nothing to...
Date: 10/01/2008
Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" The Policy User Interface
A previous post introduced you to Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2"'s concept of policy. We...
Date: 10/01/2008
"EasyCoded.com is a pathetic intellectual property-squat."
Ping that back.
Date: 10/01/2008
Microsoft Identity Lifeycycle Manager "2:" Policies
Now that I have explained that the concept of organizing things into sets is the most fundamental...
Date: 09/29/2008
Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Sets, the easy way
In an earlier post, I explained the crucial concept of organizing things into sets, in Microsoft...
Date: 09/29/2008
Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Here's what I'm talking about 2
Here is the schema administration page that I mentioned in an earlier post:
Date: 09/29/2008
Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Here's what I'm talking about
Here is a screenshot of the Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" home page:
Date: 09/29/2008
Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Sets
The concept of organizing things into sets is the most fundamental idea behind Microsoft Identity...
Date: 09/29/2008
Introducing Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2"
For almost two years, I have been part of the team developing Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager...
Date: 09/28/2008
LINQ don't stink
Recently, I had to write a test case that posed an interesting problem. The product that I am...
Date: 05/20/2008
Goldfrapp Rock!
Yes, when I was a teen in the '80s, I was guilty of creating a mix tape, and worse, of giving it to...
Date: 03/06/2008
Getting SharePoint and Exchange Outlook Web Access to play nicely together
Back in November, I added a post about how to get SharePoint and a regular ASP.NET application to...
Date: 03/06/2008
So who knows what to believe?
I subscribe to a bunch of IT industry e-mail newsletters. Yesterdays mail from CIO Insight was...
Date: 01/08/2008
Real Convergence
Intel's announcement of its Canmore chip at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas seems to me...
Date: 01/08/2008
Sometimes you can get what you need #2
It turns out that if you have an Alienware Area 51 desktop, you need a rather unusual power cable in...
Date: 12/26/2007
Sometimes you can get what you need #1
One needs to have an Enermax aluminum keyboard. They are not easy to obtain. The one vendor that can...
Date: 12/26/2007
Can't ping Vista?
Goto Control Panel -> Security -> Windows Firewall -> Allow a Program Through Windows...
Date: 12/26/2007
Exclude a path from WSS 3.0 on Windows Server 2008
In IIS 7, create a new Application under the SharePoint Web Site, and select the Classic .NET...
Date: 11/02/2007
How to add shortcuts to the Send To context menu item on Windows Server 2008
I find it extremely useful to be able to send files to NotePad from Windows Explorer, by...
Date: 10/19/2007
.NET 3.0 finally released.
In case you haven't noticed already, the RTM of .NET 3 is finally available. Runtime:...
Date: 11/07/2006
Identity and Access Webcast Series
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Date: 11/05/2006
MIIS 2003 SP2 Early-Adopter Program Now Open!
v:* {behavior:url(#default# Connected Systems Division Summary Early-Adopter Program for MIIS 2003...
Date: 11/05/2006