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![Equipping a kick-ass meeting room for less than £1500](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/05/header-equipping-a-kick-ass-meeting-room-for-less-than-1500-gdp.png)
Equipping a kick-ass meeting room for less than £1500
In this post I kit out our new meeting room for £1500 and turn it into a collaboration and meeting space that we use on a daily basis for solution design & pairing sessions, conference calls with our clients, partners and remote workers as well as lunch time brown bag training sessions
Downloading Windows Azure Subscription Files
If you use Azure Management Studio, you can quickly setup your connections by importing your publish settings...
![End of Week Research Roundup](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/05/header-end-of-week-research-roundup.png)
End of Week Research Roundup
We have a culture of sharing information at endjin; here are our highlights of interesting content shared in November 2013.
![Reclaiming Space after updating to Windows 8.1](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/05/header-reclaiming-space-after-updating-to-win-8-1.png)
Reclaiming Space after updating to Windows 8.1
A quick tip of how to reclaim up to 10GB of space after updating to Windows 8.1
Making the move from iOS to Windows Phone 8
I've been a long term Smartphone user, and early iPhone adopter, but I've become fatigued by Apple and wanted to migrate to the new Windows Phone platform.
![Azure From The Trenches: Updating Service Configuration Whilst Running In The Emulator](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/06/header-updating-service-configuration-whilst-running-in-the-emulator.png)
Azure From The Trenches: Updating Service Configuration Whilst Running In The Emulator
A quick tip for updating your Azure cloud service configuration while running in the emulator
![Azure Table Storage throws a StorageException when using DateTime.Min](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/06/header-azure-table-storage-throws-a-storage-exception-when-using-date-time-min.png)
Azure Table Storage throws a StorageException when using DateTime.Min
1601 was the year that Pierre de Fermat and King Louis XIII of France were born, Robert Devereux was beheaded in the Tower of London, the Dutch defeated the Portuguese navy in the battle of Bantam Bay and the year Shakespeare's Hamlet is thought to have been performed for the first time. Monday January, 1st 1601 (in the Gregorian calendar) was a pretty uneventful day yet the first day of the 17th century is affecting millions today.
![Bootstrap 3 At A Glance - Part One - Motivations](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/06/header-bootstrap3-at-a-glance-part-one-motivations.png)
Bootstrap 3 At A Glance - Part One - Motivations
In this post we look at the history and motivations behind the Bootstrap CSS library, and the goals of the project.
![Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Twelve – Dealing with Repetitive Tasks - Recursion in F#](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/05/header-learning-to-program-a-beginners-guide-part-12.png)
Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Twelve – Dealing with Repetitive Tasks - Recursion in F#
In this post we'll look at recursion in F#...In this post we'll look at recursion in F#...
![A Step by Step Guide to Automating TeamCity Backups](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/05/header-step-by-step-guide-to-automating-teamcity-backups.png)
A Step by Step Guide to Automating TeamCity Backups
In this blog post, I provide a how-to guide for automating your TeamCity backups using a PowerShell script.
![Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Eleven – More With Functions and Logic in F#: Minimizing Boolean Expressions](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/05/header-learning-to-program-a-beginners-guide-part-11.png)
Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Eleven – More With Functions and Logic in F#: Minimizing Boolean Expressions
In this post we delve deeper into Function and Logic and look at minimizing Boolean Expressions with F#
![A Step by Step Guide to Migrating a TeamCity Instance from One Server to Another](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/05/header-step-by-step-guide-to-migrating-a-teamcity-instance-from-one-server-to-another.png)
A Step by Step Guide to Migrating a TeamCity Instance from One Server to Another
Migrate your TeamCity instance with this guide, covering the step-by-step process when in-place upgrades aren't viable.
![Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Ten – Getting Started With Operators in F#](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/05/header-learning-to-program-a-beginners-guide-part-10.png)
Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Ten – Getting Started With Operators in F#
In this post, we'll look at how our function can work more like the other logical F# operators we've already used.
![Assign a keyboard shortcut to collapse all projects in Solution Explorer](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/06/header-assign-keyboard-shortcut-to-collapse-projects-in-solution-explorer.png)
Assign a keyboard shortcut to collapse all projects in Solution Explorer
Just so that I never ever forget this again. Here's how to assign a keyboard shortcut to collapse all projects in Visual Studio Solution Explorer.
![Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Nine – Introducing Functions in F#](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/05/header-learning-to-program-a-beginners-guide-part-9.png)
Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Nine – Introducing Functions in F#
In this post, we'll learn how to use F# to ease the pain for us.
What does sudo mean?
I've always wondered what sudo means when I use it to run a command in a terminal.
![Example of a full-width bleed using Bootstrap 3](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2013/07/header-Example-of-a-full-width-bleed-using-Bootstrap3-P1-1024px.png)
Example of a full-width bleed using Bootstrap 3
See how to use Bootstrap 3 to create a full-page bleed.
![Guest Blog Post: Work Experience at endjin – Week 2](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2013/06/Hello-World-Joshua-W2-P1-1024px.png)
Guest Blog Post: Work Experience at endjin – Week 2
Joshua, 15, is spending two weeks at endjin doing work experience. In this post he reflects on his second and final week.
![Learning to Program - A Beginners Guide - Part Eight - Working With Logic](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/05/header-learning-to-program-a-beginners-guide-part-8.png)
Learning to Program - A Beginners Guide - Part Eight - Working With Logic
In this post, we'll look at how we can bring logic to bear on our problems.
Xamarin platform setup gotchas: Final Edition!
Last post on the topic and links to all the other entries centred around troubleshooting/setting up your Xamarin mobile dev environment.
![Guest Blog Post: Work Experience at endjin - Week 1](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2013/06/Hello-World-Joshua-W1-P1-1024px.png)
Guest Blog Post: Work Experience at endjin - Week 1
Joshua, 15, is spending two weeks at endjin doing work experience. In this post he reflects on his first week.
Visual Studio, Xcode and VMware Fusion Shared Folders
Xamarin lets you develop iOS applications using Visual Studio. This is obviously great for .NET Developers except that you currently have to go to Xcode (Apple's Developer tool) if you want to create the UI using a designer tool.
![Learning to Program - A Beginners Guide - Part Seven - Representing Numbers](https://res.cloudinary.com/endjin/image/upload/f_auto/q_80/assets/images/blog/2022/05/header-learning-to-program-a-beginners-guide-part-7.png)
Learning to Program - A Beginners Guide - Part Seven - Representing Numbers
In post, we're going to look at the data memory in more detail, and learn how we can represent numbers in a computer.
Running the Windows Phone Emulator in VMware Fusion
If you run Windows 8 on your Mac with VMware Fusion 5.0 , you might get the following error message when starting the Windows Phone emulator for the first time: The Windows Phone Emulator wasn't able to create the virtual machine.
More Xamarin platform setup gotchas
Today my Xamarin trial expired - Sadface. But endjin generously supplied me with a new Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS Business edition license, things were looking up - Happyface! However after activating the new license and upgrading to a newer version of Xamarin Studio on both my Mac and the guest Windows 8 OS, my master solution containing all the projects for the different platforms (Android, iOS and Windows Phone) was no longer building.