Author Archives: spgennard

Announcing TypeScript 1.0RC

Posted on March 3, 2014 by spgennard

Its nearly at v1 level.. Some nice additions in v1.0rc, including: use of ‘any’ in interfaces and subclassing interface merging Anway.. stroll along to… http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2014/02/25/announcing-typescript-1-0rc.aspx

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How to avoid using Unix touch command on Windows…

Posted on March 28, 2013 by spgennard

In my company we have a strange habit of using third party tools to do the most trivial things rather than using the native features. A recent example of this is the use of the “Unix” touch command on Windows. … Continue reading →

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Re-using COBOL rather than converting it to C#

Posted on August 2, 2012 by spgennard

While reading a article on-line about using “NACA transcoder” to translate COBOL into Java it got me thinking about modernizing COBOL. While I agree 100% about the actual code generated by the NACA transcoder is not maintainable, I disagree that … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio 2012 RC – Menus in CAPS

Posted on June 2, 2012 by spgennard

I like a lot of changes gone into Visual Studio 2012 but the one I had is the “Menus in CAPS”, luckly we have a registry workaround! HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General\SuppressUppercaseConversion REG_DWORD value: 1 Or via PowerShell: Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General -Name SuppressUppercaseConversion -Type … Continue reading →

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Building a better pogoplug.

Posted on November 1, 2011 by spgennard

A while ago I purchased a pogoplug as a means of sharing photos with my family but its use never really happened because the interface they provided is clunky for hi-res pictures/video.. and some of the family failed to consistently … Continue reading →

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rsync & permission denied/operation not permitted & arch linux

Posted on September 30, 2011 by spgennard

I use rsync to sync directories between machines but one of my machines kept screwing up the permissions, I finally get time to track the “Operation not permitted” issue and it turned out to my vfat backup drive not being … Continue reading →

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Metro up Java

Posted on September 23, 2011 by spgennard

Microsoft’s Metro environment is a bit of a closed environment for the Open Source language vendor, so although you can code Metro applications in C/C++, C#, HTML/JavaScript/CSS on both Intel and ARM chipsets the choice of other languages are non-existent. … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 Developer Preview on VirtualBox

Posted on September 21, 2011 by spgennard

Although I got a developer preview samsung Windows 8 tablet at the Microsoft Build event I do like to use Virtual machine whenever possible because they are very useful. I have managed to get Windows 8 installed on VirtualBox on … Continue reading →

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Heroku add Java support but dumps containers!

Posted on August 28, 2011 by spgennard

Recently I have reviewing various cloud solutions and what impact this has on the way you create/architect applications and I have come to the conclusion they are often way too complicated for most existing applications to be effectively hosted in … Continue reading →

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Motorola XOOM 3.1 update for Europe

Posted on July 28, 2011 by spgennard

My beloved European XOOM finally is getting Android 3.1 support… Boy have I had to be patient… Android™ 3.1 for Motorola XOOM™ will soon be available over the air to all Motorola XOOM users in Europe. We expect the over-the-air … Continue reading →