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Laptop, Desktop & Ergonomics

From year 2005 to 2008, I worked whole day only on a laptop. That was a big mistake. I was not aware that laptops are very bad for your neck, shoulders & arms. More over, they drastically reduce...

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Git for Dummies

Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Here is a fantastic guide for beginners:...

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microsoft.data.entity.design.extensibility could not be loaded when opening edmx

I received this error when opening an edmx file in my ASP.Net MVC 3 project. Spent several hours to figure out. Another related problem I had was that the “ADO.Net Entity Data Model” project template...

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Adding Razor support to existing ASP.Net MVC 3 project

Follow the below steps to add Razor support to existing ASP.Net MVC 3 project Create another Temporary project based on MVC 3 Razor support by default Compare the references, web.config (main one and...

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ASP.Net Forms Authentication, Safari/Chrome on iPhone and Persistent Cookies

I couldn’t resist but write about the solution to the following problem as I have spent several hours on this. If you are on .Net and you don’t want the user to type his username/password every time he...

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Parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR – php

When upgrading/updating from WordPress 2.9.2 to 3.4.1 I received the following error Parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR You will find various forums discussing this error. Many users have...

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Windows Azure Cloud Computing for Dummies

Seriously, if you don’t understand anything about Windows Azure Cloud Computing, here is a neat article that talks about Windows Azure with complete clarity. Love this article...

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40% off on Copywhiz – File Copy App only on 13th Nov 2012

Conceptworld Corporation will soon be featuring Copywhiz on BitsDuJour, a ‘deal-of-the-day’ website that offers fantastic, one-time discounts on a variety of great products. BitsDuJour will be offering...

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RecentX Launcher Sale – 40% off on 27th Nov 2012

Hi Everyone , RecentX Launcher for Windows will be on sale on 27th November 2012 on BitsDuJour. You can purchase a license for $17.95 instead of $29.95. Details here:...

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Google +1 Button recent changes – Annotation

Hello, Suddenly today I saw Google +1 button to be wider & smaller on my business website. This is not what I had configured. I am using the sharrre social media plugin to show the social media...

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Bloglines as Google Reader’s alternative – a good replacement

This July’13, Google will put an end to Google Reader. Leaving Google Reader was hard. And I am sure several users would be feeling the same. Google Reader was a simple, flawless feed reader that just...

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Choosing the right RSS News Reader

Image courtesy of Simon Howden / FreeDigitalPhotos.net In my last post I talked about how I switched back from Google Reader to Bloglines. But a simple & important issue with Bloglines makes me...

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Visual Studio closes/crashes when opening edmx file

Whenever I tried opened the Entity Framework’s edmx file, Visual Studio 2008 would simply close. I tried to google, stack overflow. But couldn’t find the answer. I noticed that when I double clicked on...

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Do you want a cheap & reliable SSL certificate?

I needed to renew the SSL certificate on our Notezilla.Net web app. Last year, I used Godaddy’s SSL certificate. It spent about $70.00 for it. When comparing other similar SSL certificates &...

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Installing PositiveSSL SSL certificate on IIS/Windows Azure (ASP.Net MVC)

I still don’t understand various concepts behind certificates like SSL certificate, code signing certificate etc. I only know that they must be used for security & privacy. Each time I have to...

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Unix time (__time64_t or time_t) to FILETIME

Here is the code to convert unix time (__time64_t) to FILETIME. You can also use time_t, in which case you would need to use Int32x32to64(t, 10000000) function to multiply in the below code. void...

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FILETIME to Unix Time (__time64_t or time_t)

Here is the code to convert FILETIME to Unix Time (__time64_t). You can also use time_t instead of __time64_t. __time64_t FileTimeToUnixTime(FILETIME & ft) { ULARGE_INTEGER ull;   ull.LowPart =...

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Hindustani Classical Vocal Music in Chennai

This special post is dedicated to my singing teacher Mitu Banerjee. For more than 4 years, I have been learning Hindustani classical vocal music from her. She is an amazing teacher. She knows where to...

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PositiveSSL, Azure & COMODO RSA Certification Authority

Recently SSL 1 was declared unsafe. So the certification companies started supplying SSL 2 certificates. My certificate for notezilla.net was about to expire so I purchased a new one from...

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Staying Afloat – Borrow or buy this book online

To borrow this book for free in Chennai (India), email us at contact@bloggersworld.com How to live in a rapidly changing world The news keeps getting worse: the economy, climate change, global...

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