If you are a software developer like me, every once in awhile comes the opportunity to install your new development machine. Some of the causes can be a new job, new computer or just reinstalling your current computer. I am trying to emphasize the importance of installing your own machine, just like Jedi knights have [...]
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Deploying Rails applications on Windows - Posted October 27, 2011
Due to some legacy issues, and HP workstations being shit that you can’t turn the hardware virtualization on, i had an issue with one client regarding speed and loading time of an application. My common deployment server is running Ubuntu on VMWare or Oracle VBox, passenger + nginx, or apache even. But, this “server” is [...]
Allow only one instance of MDI child in your VB.NET MDI application - Posted January 29, 2010
I have encountered a problem in class today, we needed our Contact Manager application only to run one instance of every MDI child form, so the user will not be able to start unlimited(more than 1) number of Contacts form, or any of the settings forms. I have binged the solution and found a piece [...]
Creating a database for the ContactManager application - Posted January 22, 2010
We will need a database to store all of our contacts in, my data schema consists of 4 tables to store Contacts, ContactDetails, ContactTypes and ContactCategories We will add a new service based database in our Visual Studio project, but you can create the database using SQL Server Management Studio, or your database tool of [...]
Creating a simple contact management application with windows forms - Posted January 21, 2010
As i am teaching VB.NET in a local management and informatics school, i will need a simple application example for use in my lecture. The application will be a win-forms variation of Stephen Walter’s asp.NET MVC Contact Manager application, as i think it is a good startup example. I will use standard ADO.NET datasets and [...]