Making Your Own 8K Homegrown Inversion of Control Container
If you develop software, chances are you you’ve worked with Inversion of Control containers and the Dependency Injection pattern. Many frameworks exist to address how to marry concrete implementations to […]
HOWTO: Obtain and Configure A Free Certificate For Digitally Signing Your Outlook 2007 Email
The protocols for authenticating the sender of an email have always been very weak. For the most part its an “honor” system, which is why spammers have such an easy […]
Moving from VMware Server to Hyper-V
As I’ve written in the past, I’ve been using VMware (both Workstation 6.5 and Server 1.04) for what seems like ages. They’ve served me well but I wanted to be […]
Code Signing – It’s Cheaper and Easier than You Thought
One of the things I’ve always wanted to do, but never got around to, is to figuring out how to sign my code. Like most developers, I never really worried […]
WiX: Hints for New Users (Part 1 of 3)
If you remember some of the early pronouncements about .NET you probably heard the one where using .NET meant you could just XCOPY your binaries to the server and run […]
Complete Virtual Machine Backups with Mere Minutes of Downtime
Last week, I completely virtualized my life. Well, at least my server life is all virtualized. I’d been running my Team Foundation Server in a virtual machine, but took the […]
Bugslayer Tips!
Many people have asked over the years if I had a collection of all the tips I listed at the end of my Bugslayer column. Amazingly, I didn’t, but Sairama […]