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Quick fix for 'remote desktop could not connect' after resizing an Azure Virtual Machine. Typically caused by a stale dynamic IP, with a one-step solution.

A Haswell i7-4770K, dual SSDs, GTX 760, water cooling, and a triple-monitor setup in a Mini-ITX case: all for under £1,600. Builds feel instant and ReSharper flies.

How do you created branches in GIT? How do you push your changes to a remote server? How does Visual Studio help?

How do you get started with GIT? How do you install it? What are the basic commands? How does Visual Studio help you?

Azure IaaS has no built-in SMTP relay, but Office 365 exposes a public one. Configuring TeamCity and YouTrack to use it takes just a dedicated email account and the right SMTP settings.

What is GIT? Why should you use it as a .NET Developer? How do you incorporate it into your workflow? How does Visual Studio help?

Week 2 of an endjin apprentice's journey, exploring Behaviour Driven Development and Specification by Example as the foundation of how we build software.

Day 5 includes more behaviour driven development with SpecFlow, talking to a real customer over a working lunch, and thinking about evidence-based decision making.

Day 4 includes a code review, performance optimisations, an introduction to behaviour driven development and mocking.

On her 3rd day, Alice starts writing some code, and uses the Argotic framework to process some RSS and ATOM feeds.

On her second day, Alice is given a deep dive into the commercial side of the business.

Alice covers her day 1 experience of starting her apprenticeship at endjin; setting up her development environment and getting familiar with endjin's tools and systems.

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

If you use Azure Management Studio, you can quickly setup your connections by importing your publish settings...

A quick tip of how to reclaim up to 10GB of space after updating to Windows 8.1

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.

A quick tip for updating your Azure cloud service configuration while running in the emulator

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.

In this post we look at the history and motivations behind the Bootstrap CSS library, and the goals of the project.

Part 12 of our beginner's programming series, using F# recursion to solve real problems, illustrated by calculating the odds of winning the UK National Lottery.

In this blog post, I provide a how-to guide for automating your TeamCity backups using a PowerShell script.

In this post we delve deeper into Function and Logic and look at minimizing Boolean Expressions with F#

Migrate your TeamCity instance with this guide, covering the step-by-step process when in-place upgrades aren't viable.

In this post, we'll look at how our function can work more like the other logical F# operators we've already used.

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.