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  • Outlook Web Access freezing Firefox

    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 […]

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  • Updating Flash player on Android 2.3

    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 […]

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  • Returning to previous editor tab in Delphi

    Having done a lot of Visual Studio work lately, I’ve grown accustomed to the VS way of switching between open file tabs with the Ctrl+Tab keystroke: it switches between files in Most Recently Used order, the same way Alt+Tab does for open programs. This is extra easy when, while coding, you have to do a […]

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  • Reintegrate branch auto-creates commit summary message

    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 […]

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

    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 […]

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  • .Net Compact Framework project takes very long to build, appears to freeze

    On Compact Framework project I was working on from Visual Studio 2008, targeting a Windows Mobile 6  device, I noticed that doing a build was getting slower and slower. Watching the output window, the build process would start off really quick and then seem to hang around for several minutes, sometimes making Visual Studio appear […]

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  • SQL server views performing really bad when referencing a linked server

    We had a view in SQL server (2008) that consisted of a simple SELECT with some fields from a table that was on another database server (an Oracle database even). Performance was not a problem, the query took less than a second to complete. Until we had to add a left join to another table […]

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  • Silverlight not working in Firefox

    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 […]

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  • Following twitter without twitter (using rss)

    Having no twitter account myself (yet?), but still wanting to follow some of my friend’s and colleague’s tweets, I always subscribed to the matching RSS feeds from MS Outlook. Since a twitter update somewhere last year, it has gotten a lot harder to get the right url for the feed, since it is no longer […]

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  • The case of the blank Visual Studio properties window — part 2

    Earlier this year I suffered from a case of a Visual Studio properties window that appeared to get “stuck” in the middle of developing an application. It would show up blank and the only way to get it to work was to fix the project and restart Visual Studio (not just close and reopen the […]

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