I just got this error when doing Merge Replication on a SQL Server 2005 environment: A row insert at ... could not be propagated to ... This failure can be caused by a constraint violation. Cannot ins
I’m known for being frugal. The jury is still out on that, but there is no way I’m going to pay $20 for an iPhone 5 cable. I heard nightmares about knock off iPhone 5 cables, but I had to take a chanc
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I’ve been an avid Netflix user for the last few months. I use it watch TV shows like White Collar and Lie to Me and my kid watches Thomas & Friends, Curious George, Go Diego Go, etc. I don’t usual
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I spent about 5 mins trying to find a “Delete My Account” link on Fitocracy, but came up short. I ended up sending an email to requests@fitocracy.com and got this response: Hi, We’d be sorry to see y
I use Maps to add businesses to my Contacts all the time. That way I don’t need to search for them again when I need to get a hold of them. Unfortunately today’s release of the new Google Maps App doe
There have been many times over the past couple of months where I have seen many violations to the basic rules that companies should follow when implementing and email notification unsubscribe feature
Intel asked me to use their prototype IvyBridge Ultrabook for a few months and let them know what I thought about it as a dev machine. You can read about my initial thoughts in my “First Look at the I
I connect and disconnect my RocketFish Bluetooth Headset (RF-MAB2) from my phone and laptop all day long. Connecting and disconnecting Bluetooth devices to one machine is easy, just turn it on and off
I often double click the upper left hand corner of an app to close it. I know I could Alt+F4 it, but that’s just what I do. Windows 8 introduced this feature called “Recent App Switching” that shows a
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Yes, my hosting provider provides backups of my site for free, but I like the reassurance of having my own copy. I do so with NetDrive and CrashPlan. NetDrive is a free (for personal use) utility that
Here are the AzureConf 2012 speaker blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+ accounts. Enjoy! BLOG FEED FILE You can subscribe to the AzureConf 2012 speaker blogs by importing this [OPML file](
I’ve been fine tuning my backup strategy for years, so I thought I’d share to help any one out there who is just getting serious about it. I take backups seriously because many years of hard work woul
Scenario: You have a Windows 8 Phone and you want to sync media with a Windows 7 Desktop. It took me a bit to dig this up, but there is a Microsoft developed Windows 7 app here: http://www.windowsphon
I drink a lot of coffee. I’ll grab a latte every once and a while and don’t have loyalty to any particular company. I like most coffee brands and could easy grab a Costco latte and be content. This po
Here are the Build 2012 speaker blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+ accounts. Enjoy! BLOG FEED FILE You can subscribe to the Build 2012 speaker blogs by importing this [OPML file](http://j
This is the second post in a two part series on integrating SMS functionality into an application. In the first post, “A high-level look into Clickatell’s new SMS Small Business API”, I focused on th
This is the first post in a two part series on integrating SMS functionality into an application. In this post, I focus on the analysis I did into Clickatell’s Small Business API. My second post in th