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The Minimalist Coder: Google Contacts Synchronisation

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint Exupéry. Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Having recently migrated to Google Apps at the organisation in which I work, one of the glaring omissions we discovered was the concept of a Global Address List. To obtain the reference assemblies, you'll need to get the GData .NET Client Library from http:/ code.google.com/p/google-gdata/. The latter link also contains the compiled application ...

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The Minimalist Coder: November 2009

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint Exupéry. Monday, November 2, 2009. Migrating Classic WCF to the Service Bus. What's really nice about Service Bus's implementation, however, (and often overlooked) is that it's nothing more than a new set of WCF bindings which result in the creation of publicly reachable and discoverable endpoints. With that in mind, I wondered whether I could take my previous simple WCF example.

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The Minimalist Coder: March 2013

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint Exupéry. Sunday, March 31, 2013. Data migration to Azure SQL Database. So imagine (if you can! My excitement last September with the announcement. On my veritable roller coaster of emotions that day, imagine now the devastation caused by the following response from Azure:. Msg 40510, Level 16, State 1, Line 1. Statement 'SELECT INTO' is not supported in this version of SQL Server.

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The Minimalist Coder: Comparing SQL Server Schemas

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint Exupéry. Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Comparing SQL Server Schemas. If you're using Entity Framework code-first without database migrations, you'll be only too aware of the pain of updating the live database schema whenever you make changes to the model. The following scripts are what I use to identify the differences between development and live schemas. TABLE NAME, Local. Remote&#4...

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The Minimalist Coder: Obfuscating QueryString Parameters

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint Exupéry. Thursday, January 22, 2009. I need to provide a link to a URL which contains some parameters I'd like to obfuscate. Specifically, within an automatically generated Email, instead of embedding a link /sendMessage.aspx? Address=foo@bar.com&expiry=2009-01-22Z13:30 , I'd prefer /sendMessage.aspx? Broken down, my requirements for obfuscation are:. Generate a suitable key.

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The Minimalist Coder: Self-Hosting WCF

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint Exupéry. Wednesday, January 14, 2009. I'd like to have two separate processes (both under my control) communicate over WCF. What's the easiest way to achieve this? As an example, I'd like Process 1 (a client) to be able to check the health or presence of Process 2 (the server) by periodically requesting the server's local time. To permit communication, we need to define a. Finall...

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The Minimalist Coder: June 2009

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint Exupéry. Monday, June 29, 2009. Having bought a shiny new MacBook a few months ago, I got a little bored of OS X and wanted to make most use of its Intel chipset - to let me boot into Windows, OS X and Linux all on the same box. 1 Install the rEFIt Bootloader. Which is an alternative bootloader providing support for the Extensible Firmware Interface that Macs use. I found my idea...

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The Minimalist Coder: Migrating Classic WCF to the Service Bus

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint Exupéry. Monday, November 2, 2009. Migrating Classic WCF to the Service Bus. What's really nice about Service Bus's implementation, however, (and often overlooked) is that it's nothing more than a new set of WCF bindings which result in the creation of publicly reachable and discoverable endpoints. With that in mind, I wondered whether I could take my previous simple WCF example.

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The Minimalist Coder: January 2009

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint Exupéry. Thursday, January 22, 2009. I need to provide a link to a URL which contains some parameters I'd like to obfuscate. Specifically, within an automatically generated Email, instead of embedding a link /sendMessage.aspx? Address=foo@bar.com&expiry=2009-01-22Z13:30 , I'd prefer /sendMessage.aspx? Broken down, my requirements for obfuscation are:. Generate a suitable key.