Got burnt by a little gotcha today writing a sample Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application. I was manually hooking up a WPF DataGrid control to a Entity Framework data source that was defined in another project, through a combination of XAML and code-behind. I had declared the DataGrid control as follows in Window.xaml: in which [...]
Read more →I recently had a problem where I wanted my WCF services to run under the context of a user with additional permissions over the standard ApplicationPoolIdentity user used when hosting WCF services under IIS, including opening named pipe clients. I got a little burnt, and thought I’d share a couple of options I explored. ASP.net [...]
Read more →A few months ago whilst writing up my thesis and doing some number crunching with Matlab, my machine died spectacularly, leaving the hard drive but not much else intact. Making good use of the command window in Matlab I wanted to recover this history – so armed with the hard drive and not much else [...]
Read more →I was recently re-setting up my Windows 7 VPN server and forgot an essential step that led me to get ‘Error 720: A Connection to the remote computer could not be established’ when trying to connect to it with Windows-based clients. Turns out you might need to assign an IP address range to the VPN [...]
Read more →I’ve got a bunch of data in three columns (x,y,z) which I put into a cross tab and output as a surface and contour plot in Excel 2010. I wanted to customise the colours used, remove the shading and filter labels in order to paste the graph into a document. Just a quick heads up [...]
Read more →As dry as the subject of PHP configuration is, I thought a blog entry was necessary as I’ve just spent a fair bit of time digging around to find a way to configure PHP directives on a per-site basis. The mechanisms available vary based on the runtime environment and the method PHP runs. My problem [...]
Read more →I’ve been having a bit of a play with Word 2010 since its release on MSDN to see if any improvements have been made in the area of reference management. Unfortunately it seems not a great deal has changed. So, instead, here’s a feature wish-list and how you can get by currently on some of the points [...]
Read more →I spent a little bit of time yesterday trying to code up a file progress bar for a project requiring large uploads. It seems the best (and the only?) way to do this in PHP is to use an extension called the Alternative PHP Cache, which amongst other things enables file upload status support and [...]
Read more →A couple of weeks ago I picked up an Acer Revo on the cheap as a replacement for my old behemoth of a HTPC. The Revo is a “nettop” with netbook parts in a slimline case not much bigger than many routers currently on the market. I picked up the basic version with 1GB RAM, [...]
Read more →Apologies for those of you trying to access my blog over the past couple of days: normal service has now resumed after getting severely let down by my old web host. Luckily I had some recent (but not fully up to date) backups so all bar a couple of the posts are intact. I’ll recreate [...]
Read more →If you want to be able to include Visio drawings within your LyX documents, the process is relatively painless as you can export the drawing as a PDF and embed the PDF directly into the document. First, create your diagram in Visio as normal. Then, click File > Page Setup, select the Page Size tab [...]
Read more →PDF’s generated with pdflatex, the pdf generator for LaTeX documents which is used by default in LyX, cannot be commented on directly through the use of Adobe Reader alone (currently as of version 9). See http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2008-August/007802.html for a good explanation for this. To enable this feature using only Adobe products you need to run the [...]
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