FrazzledDad

It’s been a long time since I’ve written up reviews on anything from my book pile. Here’s an overdue catch up post with short reviews of sev...

Problem: You have the physical files for a Hyper-V virtual machine and you need to convert it to VMWare. (Maybe you’ve downloaded one of Mi...

Problem: In VMWare 6.x and 7.x I constantly run in to the problem where I set the VM to full screen mode and then have the cursor in the VM...

Problem: You get the infamous, unhelpful error message screen in SharePoint 2010 (“Click here to troubleshoot problems with SharePoint Foun...

CodeMash 2011 is in the can and I’m mostly recovered after a weekend at the Kalahari and several naps yesterday. Behind the scenes we orga...

Thanks to Joe Fiorini , I have an awesome countdown tool that helps me know exactly how close CodeMash 2011 is! It’s been an amazing run...

In case you’re looking for me on Twitter, I’m not. Twitter turned in to a massive time sink for me (and I didn’t have time to sink in the ...

Hard disks are cheap and greatly ease the past pain of having to manage free space, but that’s not the case for me: I have a small-ish Cruci...

Problem: After upgrading an ASP.NET site to 4.0 you get HTTP 500 errors with exceptions when Javascript is making web service calls: “Syste...

Your test code is production code. Treat it the same way. Don’t let cruft build up, and follow good software engineering principles – like D...

Want to be part of a team that’s deeply involved in fundamental changes to how a company builds its software? Don’t mind hollering “Sancho! ...

You’re fired up about something, but you need approval to make it happen. Maybe it’s asking for approval to go to a great developers’ confer...