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Traveling With a Baby in Italy
Several months ago, my wife and I completed a two-week trip to Italy with our then seven month-old son, Felix, and for the most part, it was great! Before we left, though, we looked around for guidance and didn’t find much that lined up with our idea of a vacation: a “last” trip before Felix could walk (let…
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NSRangeMake
Maybe this is common and maybe it’s not, but in the course of my work writing Objective-C for iOS, I end up using CGRectMake()—to make, yes, a CGRect—pretty frequently, but I only rarely need to build an NSRange.  So following the CGRectMake pattern, I inevitably start typing “NSRangeMake” and along the way the only method…
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SQL Azure, Management Studio 2008, and the ‘sys.configurations’ error
Here you are, just trying to get some work done by connecting to a SQL Azure instance using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (hereafter “SSMS”) 2008. But instead of a connection, all you get is a line of Microsoft free verse: Invalid object name ‘sys.configurations’. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 208) Googling around for help returns…
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When Your DataMember Custom Property Names Aren’t Working
Let’s say you’re writing a WCF REST service, and in proper C# fashion, your object’s properties start with a capital letter. Then your service is being consumed by Objective-C code or javascript, which call for lowercase. Since WCF uses the DataContractJsonSerializer, you can set a different name for the property to serialize to: public class…
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