General Tech
Others have blogged about this, for example Brad Wilson Blogged about using the Developer Preview that was released at BUILD last year. I used his tutorial as a stepping point to get my install up and running. In this post I'll go through the process that I went through to get the Community Preview up and running.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, February 29, 2012
For those of you that are regular readers of my blog, I know this is a bit of an "off topic" post, but after suffering through a few hours to pain, and relentless efforts testing and re-testing various solutions to get back into my iTunes account I just had to share this post. As many of you will see if you do a quick google search for "iTunes Invalid Address" you will see a stream of complaints coming up starting about May 5th, and getting increasingly more common of the last few days. Well this evening my iTunes account fell victim as I inadvertently clicked "Update" on iTunes to take it to the most current version.
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Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, May 17, 2011
For those of you not able to attend the Orlando Day of DotNetNuke and Orlando Code Camp events this weekend I wanted to take a few moments to post a quick bit of feedback on the event and also make those of you aware of some new presentation materials that I will be making available to the community over the next few weeks. (The first of which is available now!) See the full post for details!
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Posted by Mitchel on Saturday, March 26, 2011
I know that many of the readers of this blog manage their own webservers and i have a helpful tip to share about improving the initial load time of your webserver. Although this modification I am recommending is a SMALL change and has a small impact, it is still worth doing as it will improve the performance and reduce the amount of work that IIS has to do.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Like other Microsoft MVPs I have been given a few MSDN Ultimate licenses that I can give away to individuals that I feel are deserving of it. I have been arguing with myself for a while now about how to best determine who should receive the license, and have came up with a contest to give one license away to a reader of this blog.
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Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, July 13, 2010
As I have mentioned before I am working on a book that covers Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. So I have been playing with Visual Studio 2010 for quite a while now, and many of the common lines of feedback have been that the product is a great improvement in a lot of areas, however, there has been an overarching performance issue that ha...
Posted by Mitchel on Friday, December 18, 2009
I am again traveling this week, in Toronto speaking at Tech Days Canada 2009, and as luck would have it I needed to complete some work on a few custom DotNetNuke modules for clients on a "Urgent" basis. So this afternoon I darted off to the speaker room to get an internet connection, just recently I re-formatted my laptop to move to Windows 7, one of the main reasons that I needed to re-format the system was to create an environment that matched my primary development machine, today was the first true test of this new configuration. Thankfully everything worked as expected and all issues were resolved. In this blog post, I'll explain a bit as to why it is important when working on multiple environments to have consistent system configurations.
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Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, September 29, 2009
For those of you that follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed my posting earlier today, well technically Thursday asking about a Windows 7 upgrade. Well contrary to the consensus I decided to give it a shot an upgrade my primary development machine to Windows 7 Enterprise from the existing Windows Vista Enterprise x64 installation. B...
Posted by Mitchel on Friday, August 07, 2009
As some readers of this blog might have known about 2 weeks ago, I suffered from a critical hardware component failure on my primary development machine. Initially unsure of the exact issue I was seeing the hard drive as a potential failure point. It was at that point that I realized exactly how horrible it would be if the drive failed. Don't get me wrong, I have backups both locally, in my source control system remotely, as well as in the cloud using Jungle Disk. But the total time to recovery would be massive. I have a list of around 100 or so applications that would need to be installed to get me back to "full" working state. Not an easy task! Luckily for me, it was some bad RAM and the system was restored after my new RAM came in.
However, this was a very enlightening experience for me and prompted me to re-visit the concept of disk imaging. This is what prompted the review of Acronis Backup and Recovery, as it is my selected and implemented solution for the long term.
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, July 30, 2009
A very common question that I get asked by people is; what tools do you use to complete your development and what type of system do you use. Now, I believe I have written a bit about this in the past, but I thought I would take some time to go through and give a bit of a detailed overview of what I use for development and why I have selected the hardware and software that I have. I will cover this in detail from both the hardware and software point of view.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, May 22, 2009
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