A quick and easy way to make dreadlocks for your orks, or for anyone else for that matter, is to use your Hobby Drill in the thickest part of an old sprue. Twirling the hobby drill carefully, you can get a ½ to ¾ inch long dreadlock (or longer I suppose, if the sprue is thick enough). … Continue reading Orks with Dreads? Why not?
Temple Work and Family History
Here are the slides from the Temple Work and Family History class this weekend (2/20/2016). 2-up Slides in PDF format: Temple Work and Family History Slide Deck / Presentation: Temple Work and Family History Please let me know if you have any questions in the comments below. Thanks!
A Kendo Search Window with an AutoComplete and a Grid
So I want to create a popup search window using ASP.Net MVC 5 and Telerik's Kendo UI. I am using the @HtmlHelper technique in my code (less JavaScript for me to write). I want to be able to select a search term in an AutoComplete box and then find all the records that match the … Continue reading A Kendo Search Window with an AutoComplete and a Grid
Login Failure using Telerik.OpenAccess
We're using IIS 7.5, SQL Server 2014, and Windows Authentication. We've set up a ASP.Net MVC 5 Web project with the Kendo UI widgets and backed by a Telerik.OpenAccess data layer. So, the other day, I moved my Telerik.OpenAccess backing database from localhost on my dev machine to our communal dev server and started getting this error: Login … Continue reading Login Failure using Telerik.OpenAccess
Visual Studio 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 Version Numbers and Updates
Which Version of Visual Studio do I Have? Because I couldn't find it on the web, here's a list of the Visual Studio 2013 Version numbers for each of the Updates: VS 2012 Version Version ID Shell - RTM 11.0.50727.1 Update 5 11.0.61219.00 VS 2013 Version Version ID RTM 12.0.21005.1 Update 1 12.0.30110.0 Update 2 … Continue reading Visual Studio 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 Version Numbers and Updates
An Introduction to Estimating with Story Points
In the agile process, when we speak of estimating, we refer to Points (often called Story Points). This article explains Points and how we use them in the estimating process. First, let’s take a peek into a typical Project Manager (PM) – Developer conversation (maybe you’ve had a conversation like this yourself): PM: So, how … Continue reading An Introduction to Estimating with Story Points
Enabling the Unknown Member on a Dimension in SSAS.
Do you ever get this error: Warning 5 Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The attribute key cannot be found when processing: Table: '', Column: '', Value: '12:00:00 AM'. The attribute is 'Date'. It turns out that this error occurs because: Null values in the fact table relationship are converted to '12:00 A.M.' So I … Continue reading Enabling the Unknown Member on a Dimension in SSAS.
Removing Windows.old folder in Windows 2012 R2
It turns out that all the tips for Windows 7 and 8 rely on assumptions that are not valid in Windows Server 2012. See here for some good Win 8 tips: Removing Windows.old from Windows 8 For Windows Server 2012, I eventually figured out this kludge to get rid of the 16GB Windows.old folder: Take … Continue reading Removing Windows.old folder in Windows 2012 R2
New BI SharePoint Server Showed Up
I love that no one told me the new BI Server for SharePoint was up. Grrr..... And, lo and behold, despite the requisition stating clearly that it needed Windows 2012 on it, I still got Windows 2008. Aahhh! I fixed that with an in-place upgrade to Windows 2012 R2. Hopefully, that won't bugger it … Continue reading New BI SharePoint Server Showed Up
SQL Server 2014 Installation
Last week I upgraded our Development box to SQL Server 2014. Since this was a clean Dev box I had the choice of upgrading from SQL Server 2012 or doing a remove-install. I figured that rather than leave all the detritus of the prior installs and versions of Data Tools, I would do a remove-install. … Continue reading SQL Server 2014 Installation
One Man went to Mow... 