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
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
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
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