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  • Keeping Java updated without installing the Ask toolbar

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    Not only does the Oracle Java installer for Windows come with a useless toolbar from Ask, it is not enough to uncheck it at installation time. With every Java update you get, which you are recommended to install, you will be ‘ask’ed again and it is checked by default. I can count on myself to…

  • An underrated operator: using EXCEPT in MS SQL Server to track changes

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    Working with a colleague who is a longtime Oracle user, I noticed he used an operator I didn’t know of, to grab hold of the differences in rows between two nearly identical tables: he used a “minus”. I couldn’t imagine MS SQL Server would not have something like it and it didn’t, it came up…

  • Free up space on your OS disk by moving the Delphi XE6 installer files elsewhere

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    I noticed the free space on my SSD was getting smaller. Searching for ways to clean up a bit I discovered a ± 10 Gb hidden folder under c:\users\(account)\appdata\local\(guid). Inspecting its contents, it turned out to belong to the RAD Studio XE6 installer. No need to delete them, but I didn’t want them to take…

  • Registry setting may block nVidia driver updates

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    Not completely development related, this post, but since I am developing on a dual full hd monitor display setup, I like to keep my (nvidia) graphics card drivers up to date. I was unable however to update to the latest drivers, installation would say “failed” everytime.

  • VS2013 installation breaks SQL Server Data Tools in VS2010

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    After installation of Visual Studio 2013, an existing SQL server data tools project in VS2010 on the same machine would no longer build. The exception in the error window read “The “SqlBuildTask” task failed unexpectedly. System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: ‘Void Microsoft.Data.Tools.Schema.SchemaModel.DataSchemaModel.Serialize” (…) Fortunately, the solution was rather simple. It turns out there is a new…

  • Outlook Web Access freezing Firefox

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    Had a curious thing with an Outlook Web Access site since a couple of weeks. Everything was working fine and snappy, except when opening a popup editor for an e-mail message or an appointment the entire browser (all tabs) would freeze for a couple of minutes. After that, (if I had the patience to wait…

  • Updating Flash player on Android 2.3

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    I have an HTC Desire Z running Android 2.3. Among a lot of other apps, this device features an Adobe Flash player plugin for the mobile browser. Adobe no longer supports Android for new devices, but the older ones like mine should continue working and get (security) patches. Now, the Google Market app has been…

  • Reintegrate branch auto-creates commit summary message

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    Just a small SVN tip to close the year. Did you know, that if you have a feature branch and you reintegrate it into the trunk, TortoiseSVN makes a nice summary of the revision comments of the branch and puts it under your Recent comments button in the Commit dialog? Here’s the procedure: Go to…

  • Implementing IEquatable is not enough to use a class as a Dictionary key

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    Note to future self: it is not enough to implement IEquatable<T> to use a class as a Dictionary key. Today I needed a Dictionary with a composite key, a combination of several values. So I quickly cooked up a class with public properties to cover the values and for ease of use, a constructor to…

  • Silverlight not working in Firefox

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    Another long-running issue on my dev machine solved today. I never got the Silverlight plugin to work in Firefox. With every upgrade of either Firefox or Silverlight I hoped that the issue was solved, but no. Today, I finally found the solution here. Yes, it really was that simple. When going to the Microsoft Silverlight…