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Visual Studio 2008 Team System Database Project Templates for SQL Server 2008
The Database templates in Visual Studio 2008 Team System are used to e.g. create automagic test data generation plans which then can be utilized in WebTests using a DataSource binding for a field value and then use the WebTests to create a LoadTest. It’s absolutely awesome and impressive how this...
PicasaUploader – a simple uploader tool for Google’s PicasaWeb
I finally decided to make the tool I use to upload photos to Google’s PicasaWeb online gallery public.
MS Office 2007 SP2 OpenDocument Support
This seems to have gone unnoticed but Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2007 introduced native support for loading from and saving to the OpenDocument file format. So I went ahead and opened my OpenDocument final year project which is a 57 pages document with custom styles, formatting, frames, images,...
Resize a VirtualBox Virtual Disk HowTo
It is not possible to increase the maximum virtual size of a VirtualBox VDI HDD once it is created. The only way I found to do it is to create a new larger VirtualBox HDD and use GParted to copy the old one to the new one. The steps to...
Git bisect – the awesome way to find the Mr. Bug commit
I had my first experience with git bisect the other day and it’s awesome. What happened is that I introduced a regression which was uncovered by a failing test. Yes, yes I know I should have ran the full test suite, but I did the mistake to only run the...