Yes, I work for Microsoft, but I always like to tell people about great customer service…this time from Apple. I bought an Apple Airport Extreme 5th Gen Router back in May 2012. I get very fast (100m
I need motivation to keep physically active. If unchecked I would sit, eat and code all day. Even a little motivation does wonders for my psyche. I use a bunch of apps to keep me motivated with yoga,
I run the Creative Entry Points dev team within Microsoft Advertising. We build the UI and APIs that allows partners to get Ad Assets (images, videos, text) into the Ads system. I’m rethinking things.
I just committed a big change to the AngularJS CRUD Grid – Lookup Tables! CODE: https://github.com/jongio/AngularJS-WebApi-EF Here’s what’s included: Lookup tables: You can now specify that a column
I just added filtering to the AngularJS CRUD Grid. AngularJS makes filtering VERY easy. All I had to do was add a text box with ng-model and then use the “filter” filter in your ng-repeat CODE: https:
I just added support for dynamic columns. Before you were limited to Id and Name, now you can specific the columns as a Json object in the directive. <div crud-grid table='person' columns='[
Easy one, just run SQL Server Management Studio as Administrator.
I just upgraded my Asus UX31A to Win8.1 RTM and broke my Targus Docking Station (ACP71USZ). The USB ports work, but the monitors do not. I get the USB device not recognized toast. And Unknown USB Dev
I just added sorting and upgraded to AngularJS 1.2.0 and Bootstrap 3. CODE: https://github.com/jongio/AngularJS-WebApi-EF I’ll eventually put the into directives, just ran out of time today. 1. Added
I’ve been looking at my options for purchasing an Aeron Chair by Herman Miller I could buy new for $879 or get used on Craigslist for $400-500. I confirmed with HermanMiller that the 12 Year Warranty
XBOX CLOUD DOESN’T SUPPORT MUSIC NOT IN XBOX MARKETPLACE I can’t upload music I purchased from Amazon, iTunes, etc to the Xbox cloud that isn’t in the Xbox marketplace. Allen Stone’s album “Last To Sp
Inheritance security rules violated by type: ‘System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory’. Derived types must either match the security accessibility of the base type or be less accessible. Search your who
[A]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection cannot be cast to [B]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection. Type A originates from ‘System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Cul
Error: [$sce:insecurl] Blocked loading resource from url not allowed by $sceDelegate policy. UPDATE: This error was also appearing in IE11 because of a bug in the user agent detection. That has been f
CORS support is very easy to setup in WebApi, but the docs are outdated. They removed the parameterless constructor and didn’t update the docs. For testing purposes, you should just pass “*” for all t
Bootswatch is nice. Free themes for Bootstrap. Integrating into an MVC app turned out to be a little more involved than I thought it would be. Here’s what you have to do: Sample Code: https://github.c
The Targus ACP71USZ docking station doesn’t come with an ASUS UX31A power tip. Targus will send you one for free. Just go to the Targus support chat page and tell them what you need and they’ll ship
Today I took my V2 Crud Grid and moved it into an AngularJS directive. That allows me to reuse the crud grid functionality and have many of them on the same page. Here’s what it looks like now: CODE:
In V1 of my AngularJS, WebApi grid I used $http to call my WebApi endpoints. I’ve been using $resource a lot lately, so I thought I’d go back and update it to use $resource instead. Here’s what it loo
Go into your EDMX file, select the field that is causing the error and set StoreGeneratedPattern to Computed. Add the DatabaseGenerated attribute if you are using EF Code First: [DatabaseGenerated(Da
I just spent way to much time trying to figure out why I kept getting this error: Origin is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. Here’s the code snippet: var resource = $resource('http://local
I almost gave up, but I finally found where Microsoft hid the ability to lock shapes in Visio 2013. You actually don’t want lock shapes, you want to create layers and lock the layers. But if you reall
Google announced that they are going to be shipping a Google Music iOS app that includes subscription music. I’m a big Spotify fan, but one thing that has always bugged me is that I can’t browse “My A
I just tried to clean up my Deleted Items folder in Outlook 2013 and got the two following errors: Cannot delete this folder. Right-click the folder, and then click Properties to check your permissi
UPDATE 7/30/2013: I modified the code to use $resource instead of $http. Go to my new post “V2 of my AngularJS, WebAPI CRUD Grid - Now using $resource instead of $http and deployed a LIVE DEMO to Azur
@itsananderson and I just spent way too long trying to get Restangular running. Here’s what worked for us: <!doctype html > <html ng-app="app"> <head> <title>Restangular<
PluralSight is great, but because I don’t have 3 hours every time I want to learn something, I always watch them at double speed – and that’s as fast as PluralSight allows you to go….until now. Will
Do I have to get into management to be successful at Microsoft? That, along with the review model and work:life balance, is a very common question I get from interview candidates and current Microsoft
I recently joined a new team to work on a brand new super-secret Windows 8 Modern app. You may have seen my “Moving on to Microsoft Advertising to work on a super secret Win8 app. Come join me.” post
Most people know that the KendoUI controls are awesome and free. The thing that is missing from there demo site is how to create a Jsonp WebApi service that the controls can talk to. I tried to get it
“What does work:life balance look like at Microsoft?” That is the second most asked question I get after “What do you think of the Microsoft Employee Review Model?” Interview candidates want to know i
WhatsApp is all the rage. KakaoTalk is a great alternative for the frugal world. I’ve been using it for years without a problem. It’s on iPhone & Android
I’ve always been a SQL Server guy, but I wanted to give MySQL a try for a project that I’m working on. I could find a really quick MySQL/MVC example so I threw this together. LMK if you have any issue
An interview candidate recently asked me what I thought of the Microsoft employee review model. I don’t hate it and I don’t love it. I personally tend to not stress about things I can’t change. I’m mo
Read this if you don’t know the “why” behind Guid.Comb. In a nutshell. We want to uniquely identify records and don’t want PK collisions across database instances. Using Guid as a PK used to be taboo.
Took me a bit to find the solution to this one, but I eventually found it here. 1. Upgrade to Resharper 7.1.2 2. In VS go to Resharper –> Options –> Unit Testing –> MS Test and Uncheck “Use L
Just a quick post to let you know that if you get the error below it means that you don’t have the TypeScript plugin installed: The imported project “C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStu
I am an avid Google Reader user. I use it to scan over 400 tech blogs and often share to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and email. It’s easy to miss stuff on Facebook and there’s too much noise on Twitte
My hard drive crashed today. As you can see in "[My Backup Strategy](/2012/11/my-backup-strategy.html)" post, I am a rigorous backer-upper, but I got schooled today. My strategy includes "File Histor
Installing Neo4j on Windows is pretty straightforward, but the Neo4j installation instructions for Windows are lacking….this is all they have. It’s a little more involved than that. Install Java
I joined MSN three years ago to help them turn around the Tools team and that work is done. The team is in a really good place now, so it’s time to move on. Honestly, the MSN Tools team was one the mo
You’ll sometimes get this error in Firefox and Chrome, but not IE. “TypeError: m[5] is undefined” “TypeError: Cannot read property ‘length’ of undefined” There has been a known issue with Firefox an
I purchased Argo (“HD”)from YouTube.com last night. I was expecting at least 720p since it was advertised as HD, but the highest resolution available was 480p. Here’s the definition of HD video from W
I just spent several hours trying to figure out why I was getting JavaScript errors when using IE10. I owe Hanselman on this one. My error wasn’t exactly the same as what he described, but close. Thro
I know, I know, it’s 2013, but I occasionally have to work with VS2008. Unfortunately, when I was using it recently it would hang every other minute or so. I tolerated it a few times, but couldn’t tak
I got this error today and after a few minutes of messing around with FileZilla settings I discovered a way around it. This might not work for everyone, but it worked for me. Error: GnuTLS error -
What is the best way to develop an application to support multiple platforms (Apple, Android, Microsoft)? Like so many devs out there, I was recently faced with that exact question. It turns out that
You will see this error when you try to play Spotify music from more than one device at the same time: [ “Spotify has been paused because your account is being used somewhere else.” The reason they
I got this error today in Sony Movie Studio Platinum Suite when I tried to render a video file. _An error occurred while creating the media file …. The system is low on memory. You may be able to red
I’ve been making smoothies every morning now for the last couple of months with my old $40 Oster blender that I’ve had for 8 years or so. Being frugal doesn’t mean you are cheap. I means you are wise
I got this error today when I tried to drag a video file that was created with my iPhone 5 to Sony Movie Studio (Vegas) The Sony QuickTime plug-in was not able to initialize the QuickTime components
I just got this error when doing Merge Replication on a SQL Server 2005 environment: A row insert at ... could not be propagated to ... This failure can be caused by a constraint violation. Cannot ins
I’m known for being frugal. The jury is still out on that, but there is no way I’m going to pay $20 for an iPhone 5 cable. I heard nightmares about knock off iPhone 5 cables, but I had to take a chanc
I just spent way too much time trying to figure out how to call the LinkedIn People Search API. I needed to simply use the LinkedIn API to find people in my network by their full name. The last thing
I’ve been an avid Netflix user for the last few months. I use it watch TV shows like White Collar and Lie to Me and my kid watches Thomas & Friends, Curious George, Go Diego Go, etc. I don’t usual
There are a bunch of solutions out there on the web, but all I had to do to fix this was repair iTunes. Here’s how… Close iTunes Go to “Add / Remove Programs” Right-click on iTunes Select Repair
I spent about 5 mins trying to find a “Delete My Account” link on Fitocracy, but came up short. I ended up sending an email to [email protected] and got this response: Hi, We’d be sorry to see y