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JQuery: Using the right CDN

Posted by Tom on Nov 1, 2011 in Development

I was reading an article calledÂ 6,953 reasons why I still let Google host jQuery for me – which is a scentific experiment to find out which CDN is used by the...

Productivity: Cheap Fix. Army Ear Defenders

Posted by Tom on Oct 21, 2011 in Development

Anyone who works with me, or has in the past, knows that I’m easily distracted. I find it easy enough to get into the flow, but I’m very easily knocked...

WebDev.Webserver – Unable to start debugging on the web server. The web server could not find the requested resource.

Posted by Tom on Oct 3, 2011 in Development

You may be unlucky enough to come across this error. If you do, I’ve not found any websites which explain the issue I’ve just spent the best part of a week...

Word of the Day: Alimentation

Posted by Tom on Oct 3, 2011 in Everything Else

I was in a meeting this morning, and noticed that a calculator which was on the table had “Double Alimentation”. I have no idea what alimentation is, or why...

BizTalk 2010 exam

Posted by Tom on Sep 20, 2011 in Development

I’m rolling around in my head the idea of taking a MS exam in BizTalk. I don’t really know enough about it yet, but it’s a good excuse to do some...

Works on my machine?

Posted by Tom on Sep 17, 2011 in Development

I came across this looking for something different (well, I was sending an email about TFS folder management and wanted a good image to keep attention during the...

Windows 8 Developer Preview License Agreement

Posted by Tom on Sep 16, 2011 in Development

This is the license agreement screen for the Windows 8 Developer Preview. It made me laugh. I particularly like it because the license agreement has become possibly the...

If This Then That – Social Web Glue

Posted by Tom on Sep 14, 2011 in Development

Warning: contains blatent hyperbole! I wasn’t going to do a blog post for this, because I really have nothing useful to add to the web. I can’t give insight,...

BAM Deployment: Alerts not deployed

Posted by Tom on Sep 13, 2011 in Development, Everything Else

I’ve just trouble-shot this error as well, and I couldn’t find it elsewhere on the Internet, so I thought I’d add it for posterity. The error, when...

BAM! Deployment Problem Solved!

Posted by Tom on Sep 12, 2011 in Development, Everything Else

I’ve been trying to deploy a new BAM Business Activity, one which I created as part of Lab 12 (from the Training Labs). I was using the bm.exe tool, and this...

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