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Microsoft Releases Roslyn Project, Open Compiler API

October 22, 2011

This is amazing. Microsoft has made the inner workings of their IL compiler open to everyone by exposing the inner workings through an API. As the Overview describes, they’ve rewritten the IL compiler in managed code and in doing so have un-boxed the black box that was once the best IL compiler for Windows. It [...]

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How to alter table column to increase varchar size

August 16, 2011

The top results in a general search through Google for keywords in the title of this post will return results which will not work with SQL server. Some suggest using the ALTER tablename MODIFY column syntax for which SQL Server does not support MODIFY. In order to change the size of a varchar column (or [...]

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myIP: A robust command line tool for retrieving local and remote IP addresses

May 13, 2011

In usual fashion I sat down the other day and tried to come up with a useful tool I could quickly code. After about a week of coding and testing I’ve come up with a simple command line tool that will retrieve and display both v4 and v6 IP address information for one or more [...]

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Three Web Design Prototyping Tools Pros and Cons

December 19, 2010

Several considerations must be made when choosing a website design tool. Platform, hardware, and cost should all be taking into account before finalizing selection of a tool that will be used as your primary design software. For this topic, I have chosen to focus on tools available on the Windows platform. Microsoft Expression Studio 4 [...]

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