How To Temporarily Disable The Touch Screen In X1 Carbon
I know, why would anyone want to do that?
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Fridathon: unstructured learning or hacking you can opt-in to do on any random Friday.
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PayPal Samples are virtually useless
I’m investigating the PayPal Adaptive Payments for a project, and was gladly surprised to find not only the sample app but also the SDK itself open sourced at GitHub. Cool! [Read More] -
How to fix continuous deployment error for .NET 4.5 in Team Foundation Service
If you’re configuring continuous deployment on Team Foundation Service for a .NET 4.5, you may get an error like the following in the build log: Exception Message: The application pool that you are trying to use has the 'managedRuntimeVersion' property set to 'v4.0'. This application requires 'v4.5'. Learn more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_APPPOOL_VERSION_MISMATCH. (type DeploymentDetailedException) [Read More] -
A new way of financing open source software via Kickstarter
The Kickstarter successes of the ambitious Ghost as well as the much more modest Schema Migrations for Django or git-annex (all open source software projects) got me thinking that this could be the start of a new way to fund open source projects in general. [Read More] -
How to tweet automatically when you push a new package to nuget.org
Wouldn’t it be nice if your followers could be notified whenever you publish a new version of a NuGet package? Currently, nuget.org offers no support for this, but with the following tricks, you can get it working without programming. [Read More] -
NuDoc: A .NET XML API Documentation Reader
A couple days ago I was toying with the idea of generating a static API documentation site in markdown ready for hosting in GitHub. The idea is to make it part of the project wiki, so that anyone can very easily improve the code documentation, and later on somehow allow project authors/contributors to merge back the edited markdown as XML documentation in the code itself, so that the cycle is closed. [Read More] -
Increase developer productivity with NuGet packages with NuGet References
A typical solution usually has many projects, and many more NuGet packages in use: [Read More] -
Automatic component registrations in Autofac
I just had to adapt my favorite IoC container to do some of the things MEF does out of the box, namely registering all classes that have a certain attribute (in MEF’s case, [Export]). [Read More] -
NuGet References: publishing my first open source extension to the DevStore
Last week I had the pleasure of spending time with a bunch of friends at the OuterConf 2013, including pretty much the entire NuGet team. I also could attend to the hackathon they organized, and I got to hack what I think is a pretty cool Visual Studio 2012 extension: NuGet References. [Read More] -
How to perform regular expression based replacements on files with MSBuild
And without a custom DLL with a task, too . [Read More]