Installing Sublime Text 2 on Linux Mint/Ubuntu (for Linux Newcomers)
TL:DR – For a newcomer to Linux, likely starting out with Ubuntu or Linux Mint, installing applications that are not part of the Software Manager or Synaptic Package Manager catalog for the chosen distro is not always intuitive...
Webmatrix 3: Integrated Git and Deployment to Azure
TL;DR – Webmatrix 3 is cooler than you might think. It offers a very convenient set of features which to my mind are a complement to, and not replacement for, a more robust development environment. Particularly for doing...
Deploying an Azure Website from Source Control
TL;DR – Setting up automatic deployment to Windows Azure Websites from your source control repository is just about painless. While the free Windows Azure Websites offering is not without it’s shortcomings, and the...
Git: Combine and Organize Messy Commits Using Interactive Rebase
Image by CityGypsy11 | (Creative Commons) This post describes a rather specific use of Git’s rebase command. Rebase is a powerful and complex topic which I am not fully covering here. I will attempt a more thorough look at rebase...
Managing Nested Libraries Using the GIT Subtree Merge Workflow
Image by Ville Miettinen | Some Rights Reserved NOTE: This post is mainly targeted at newer git users who may want a more detailed look at what is happening. If you consider yourself comfortable with git, I have also created a...
Git Subtree Merge –The Quick Version
Image by Ville Miettinen | Some Rights Reserved The Subtree Merge Workflow offers a relatively painless mechanism for managing shared library source code as a component of a larger project. If you have ever had a shared library,...
Splitting and Merging Pdf Files in C# Using iTextSharp
I recently posted about using PdfBox.net to manipulate Pdf documents in your C# application. This time, I take a quick look at iTextSharp, another library for working with Pdf documents from within the .NET framework. Some...
Working with Pdf Files in C# Using PdfBox and IKVM
I have found two primary libraries for programmatically manipulating PDF files; PdfBox and iText. These are both Java libraries, but I needed something I could use with C Sharp. Well, as it turns out there is an implementation...
Misperceptions and Flawed Metaphors in Economic Theory
Image by Quin.Anya attribution-ShareAlike I would make clear before I proceed that I am attempting to create a rational examination of the authors points from my own perspective. Like Mr. Cain, I am far from an economist or a...
How to Use SSH to Access a Linux Machine from Windows
NOTE: I do a LOT of handholding in this article. I wanted to be sure someone who is less-than-familiar with the Linux Command Line Interface and/or SSH would have no trouble understanding what is going on. Here are some...