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In case you're using the (at the time of writing) brand-new ASP.NET 5 with ASP.NET MVC 6 frameworks, you'll have already witness the fact that the MVC pipeline has been completely rewritten in …
Custom Routing and Action Method Names in ASP.NET 5 and ASP.NET MVC 6 Read More
One day I'll write an extensive post about TypeScript, the amazing JS superset developed by Microsoft in 2012 and now widely adopted by a bunch of good projects such as Angular 2, ngrx/store and …
Fixing TypeScript "Compile on Save" feature in Visual Studio 2015 ASP.NET 5 RC1 Read More
Handling DateTime string-serialized values is often annoying when you're working on a multi-language project, especially when you're working with string-based data formats such as XML, CSV, JSON and such. Luckily enough, almost every …
ASP.NET - Custom DateTime Converter for Json.NET to handle non-standard, empty string and null-value date formats Read More
Standby, also known as sleep mode, is one of the most useful features of the latest windows builds: when properly used it allows any user not only to save a tremendous …
How to prevent Windows from waking up by itself after entering sleep mode Read More
Raise your hand if you're a PHP developer and felt at least once the urge to prevent simultaneous access to a property, function or class method from multiple threads/processes. If you …
PHP lock and thread-synchronization using WinCache and/or APC Read More
If you've setup some native or third-party backup procedures on your system (in our case we had Cobian Backup) it might happen to stumble upon the following error message in the …
Volume Shadow Copy Service Error: Unexpected error querying for the IVssWriterCallback interface - how to fix that Read More
When you're working with Javascript frameworks such as Phaser.io or CraftyJS you often need to retrieve a set of resources - such as images, videos, sounds & more - from your project asset …
dir2json - a PHP CLI script to output the contents of a folder tree into a JSON object Read More
Since its introduction in the first Windows NT Server, the Event Viewer has always been an essential tool for any System Administrator as the primary source to detect, locate and review a …
Event Viewer: how to send notification E-Mail messages with Powershell Read More
If you've stumbled upon this post you most likely experienced the following error message when you tried to run your web application in debug mode: Unable to start debugging on the web …
Visual Studio 2013 and 2015: Unable to start debugging on the web server. Could not start ASP.NET debugging - How to fix that Read More
Have you ever needed to convert one, some or all the tables of a MySQL Database from MyISAM to InnoDB or the other way around? Here's a couple queries you …
MySQL - Convert all Tables of one or more Database(s) from MyISAM to InnoDB and vice-versa Read More