by Alex Shapovalov | Aug 29, 2021 | Business
Does a small business company or an independent IT consultant need an accountant? It is a tough question when you just opened a business, and every dollar counts. In the beginning, you know nothing about bookkeeping, accounting or taxes, and at least some advice would...
by Alex Shapovalov | Aug 29, 2021 | Software Development
On my current contract, I have to develop and support SSIS packages for multiple versions of SQL server and in order to work with multiple versions, I am running a virtual machine. The problem with virtual machines they are not connected to the active directory, and...
by Alex Shapovalov | Aug 29, 2021 | JavaScript
There are a number of DateTime pickers that work with AngularJs and Bootstrap, but the best I have found so far is Bootstrap 3 Datepicker Bootstrap 3 DateTimePicker. The only issue with this DateTimePicker does not work with AngularJs out of the box, but it’s...
by Alex Shapovalov | Aug 29, 2021 | PowerShell
Recently I explained how to install windows service using PowerShell. The problem with that code was that the path to the binary file was hardcoded in my sample, which is a bad practice. If you decide to use a different installation path, you need to remember to...
by Alex Shapovalov | Aug 29, 2021 | ASP.NET
When you develop a new website using Umbraco, you may notice that the 404 page is intentionally left ugly and you need to make sure it does have some lovely template. It is possible and straightforward to create a great 404 page in Umbraco using just Umbraco CMS. It...
by Alex Shapovalov | Aug 29, 2021 | Azure
Windows Azure user management is a little bit complicated, and unfortunately, there is no way to add users to the existing database using the Microsoft Azure management portal. To add a new user to the existing database in windows azure you have to do the following:...
by Alex Shapovalov | Aug 29, 2021 | Git
You can compare branches in git using git diff first-branch..second-branch but this will give you all changes between branches, but sometimes you need to know only files which were changed. You can do it using the following git command, it will give you a list of...
by Alex Shapovalov | Aug 29, 2021 | IIS
Local development for ASP.NET websites over HTTPS protocol is much easy with the IIS Express development certificate, which is pre-installed with IIS on Windows 8. But anyway when a web application runs the first time in any browser, a message similar to the following...
by Alex Shapovalov | Aug 29, 2021 | DevOps
The blog post will explain how to create a build system and deploy application code to different environments, such as DEV, UAT, PROD… using TeamCity and MSDeploy. The application which needs to be deployed is an ASP.NET MVC 4 application, but it does not matter, it...
by Alex Shapovalov | Aug 28, 2021 | Software Development
I have used Micro ORM for one of my projects recently and want to share my experience with such micro ORM as Dapper or Peta Poco, as well as compare them with such ORM tools as EntityFramework or NHibernate. When talking about micro ORM it usually does not matter...
