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I'm not one for posting recipes (nor, for that matter cooking, baking or much other kitchen activity), but since Google search results for 'Crunchie bar cheesecake base' don't come back with anything obvious or decent, I thought I'd whack this on here. I'm a member of a Cheesecake Tuesday club…
Read MoreGetting the error Unable to delete file obj dll warning MSB3061 when trying to build in VS2015 has driven me round the twist on a number of occasions. I generally go through all the obj and bin folders of each of my projects deleting DLLs, and eventually it seems to…
Read MoreI recently wanted to list a count of occurrences across a data range so that I could render a line graph. I knew that some of the dates would contain 0 occurrences, so I knew I'd need to list all dates within the range, and left join to the occurrence-by-date…
Read MoreDespite Winamp's fall from grace and lack of continuing updates, many of us still remember the audio player that always has and always will 'whip the lamas ass'. It's still my player of choice, and this is the formula I've used for years to display song titles: [$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%…
Read MoreThis has driven me crazy on a number of occasions, so I'm linking this here to hopefully save myself and / or someone else the pain I've been through. Credit to David Espart for his Stack Overflow answer on how to track down log4net problems ( http://stackoverflow.com/a/756241/3264286…
Read MoreI've made this change on a number of occasions, so I'm linking this here to hopefully save myself and / or someone else some time in setting this up. Credit to Paul Bouwer for his blog post Replace diff/merge tool in Visual Studio Team System with WinMerge ( https://blog.paulbouwer.…
Read MoreBack in 2012 while at a gig in Bar Bodega, Wellington, me and a friend-of-a-friend were discussing our our various music tastes. Back and forth we listed styles and bands we'd enjoyed our entire lives or recently stumbled upon. Now, 4 years and 20+ meetings later, our Music Club is…
Read MoreIf you find your IntelliSense not keeping up with your schema changes in SSMS, try clicking anywhere in your Query Editor window and going to: Edit -> IntelliSense -> Refresh Local Cache…
Read MoreHaving been gifted a beer making kit earlier this year, myself and some friends recently ventured into brewing our first batch. As it turned out, one accomplice, Matt, had his own kit too, so we decided to join forces and produce 30 litres each of two beers. So we have…
Read MoreWhile using the Visual Studio 2010, 2012 or 2015 Solution Explorer pane, I've noticed after getting latest from source control (in my case TFS) new files retrieved are missing the lock indicator. I'm not sure it makes any difference to the project, the build or your pending changeset, but it…
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