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Useful TFS Commands

Sergey Barskiy — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:16:17 +0000

There are a few commands you can use with TFS source control that come handy from time to time, specifically when you need to do something on behalf of another person. They are List workspaces for a user Delete a workspace for a user Undo checkout of a file for a user These come in ...

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Workaround for Non-Unicode Parameters in Entity Framework with Oracle

Sergey Barskiy — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:34:40 +0000

I ran into a very interesting problem this week. I got feedback that a few queries in an application I am working on are not using indexes. The app itself is using Entity Framework over Oracle. There was a matching index for each query, but Oracle was not using it. I decided to use Toad ...

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Windows Azure Tipping Point Webcasts Series

Sergey Barskiy — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:44:40 +0000

In any decision process, there is a tipping point. As companies plan their cloud strategy, the tipping point of when to go to the cloud – and how – is mission critical. The scenario of dev/test is a simple first step into the public cloud. Telenor is a Norwegian telecommunications company who needed to upgrade ...

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Using esri ArcGIS in PhoneGap Applications

Sergey Barskiy — Sun, 05 May 2013 16:17:29 +0000

In this post I will describe how to get esri maps to work in PhoneGap applications. ESRI is a company that provides a large variety of GIS (geographic information systems) services. They have native controls for all major mobile devices. However, they do not have clear instructions on how to use their services in PhoneGap ...

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Why I Do Not Feel Guilty

Sergey Barskiy — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:47:25 +0000

Some days, actually most days, I feel like a hack at some point or another at work, writhing the software. There is always something I do not know and something I need to learn. Actually, I believe, learning is why I love my work. I have been programming on and off since 1980, starting with ...

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