ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is a great application-wide error logging tool. ELMAH Features: Logging of unhandled exceptions. A web page for viewing the logged exceptions including stack traces. An e-mail notification whenever an error occurs including the error details. An RSS feed that includes the last 15 errors from the log. Installing ELMAH: [...]

I have been testing ASP.net MVC4 lately and one of the things I really like in it is the built in minification and bundling that it provides. I discovered the other day that there is a nuget package that contains this MVC4 bundling and minification. The problem I ran into with the nuget package is [...]

This is my solution for the Alphabet Soup problem, which is one of three in the Facebook Hacker Cup 2012 qualifying round.  I had forgotten about the qualifying round this weekend and I saw a post on my news feed saying 2 hours left to qualify.  I fired up a new visual studio C# command line project [...]

If you are still hosting jQuery yourself, then I guess you missed the memo about serving files from a CDN (Content Delivery Network). Basically all that you need to know is that you gain several advantages by serving the jQuery library from a CDN. Advantages Better caching is achieved  because over 40% of websites use jQuery and [...]

I am going to show you how to extract a Facebook User ID out of a Facebook picture URL. Today I was working on some Facebook like button integration and I needed to figure out the Facebook ID of the website owner in order to give him access to the Facebook Insights.  Facebook does not [...]

  I came across a nice tool for finding better DNS servers based on your location.  In case you don’t know what DNS servers are, basically they are like a phone book for your computer.  When you go to Google.com you are actually looking up the IP address for Google and your DNS server returns [...]

Today I was faced with the challenge of installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a server with only a CD ROM drive.  I created a bootable USB drive and loaded the installation files on it like I normally do but I could not get the server to boot from the USB drive no matter what [...]

  After upgrading the BIOS and adding some ram to my home server, I ran across this error while trying to boot into Windows Server 2008 R2, but it also occurs in Windows 7 and Windows Vista. This is how to fix the error and it works for Vista, 7, Server 2008, and Server 2008 [...]