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Single Pages Apps (SPAs) are the current flavour of the month. They have seemingly appeared from nowhere, but now it seems like every developer is talking about them. Wikipedia describes this pattern as follows: A single-page application (SPA), also known as single-page...

I lost a good couple of hours tracking this one down. If Visual Studio is taking a very long time to load debug symbols when debugging (think 5 minutes to 30 minutes), try this... Delete all break points (Debug - > Delete All Break Points). Sometimes something small like this can be a lot more frustrating than a big issue. Hopefully this saves someone from going crazy....

I'm a typical developer. I often can't resist the urge to try different platforms. My current blogging platform (blogger) has numerous limitations. I started looking for alternatives, and Ghost appeared on the radar. Ghost is a ground up blogging platform, being developed under the...

A good number of us have content stored on google drive. Wouldn't it be handy if we could reference that content in our blog posts? Good news, you can! Steps Go to your google drive account. Ensure the folder the item is in, is shared (use the option Anyone who has the link can view). Share the item (use the same option as above). Copy the "Link to Share" link. Paste the link in the...

Last week, a coworker asked me a question about Etags. I'd never heard of of Etags - in spite of them being around since 1999! In a nutshell, an etag is an identifier assigned to a specific version of a hosted object by a webserver - for the purposes of caching. Etags operate as follows: 1. A client sends a HTTP request for an object. 2. The server returns the object to the...

I recently purchased a Belkin WeMo light switch. I've been eyeing these off for a while. The general premise is pretty cool. It is a IP enabled light switch, with Iphone/Android control. Install was pretty easy. It was simply a matter of cutting a hole in the gyprock (plaster board),...