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Spectrum Colorpicker In Foliotek Presentation
Spectrum, my JavaScript colorpicker project, has gotten some good news lately! It was adopted by the WebKit project for use in the Web Inspector, which was on a few people’s wishlists, including my...
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Visual Studio Custom Start Page
Feature Driven Development More than a year ago, the Foliotek development team moved to a Feature Driven Development Cycle (FDD). If you’ve never researched into this form of agile development I would...
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How to Record, Edit, and Produce Videos with Text Overlays
Recently I had the opportunity to create a video to build a greater understanding of one of the products our company sells. Working for a small company I wear many hats and it turns out I needed to get...
View ArticlejQuery Mobile Code Snippets for Visual Studio
I’ve been recently learning jQuery Mobile and am really impressed with the technology. It is a powerful and robust tool to quickly create content for mobile devices. However, with it being so new to me...
View ArticleIdentifying Unused Indexes in a SQL Server Database
One of our databases began timing out during our weekly index rebuild job, so I began to look into what indexes were getting rebuilt. After looking at the Index Usage Report, I noticed that some of...
View ArticleIndex Recommendations from the Database Engine Tuning Adviser should not be...
The Problem I ran a SQL Profiler session on one of our SQL databases toda to catch any expensive queries and see if they could be optimized. One query that showed up was one that selected the top 30...
View ArticleChecking Integer Identity Columns in SQL Server for Overflow Risk
A very common practice is to use a column of type integer for the primary key on a table with auto increment. This works great in most cases. However, there is a limitation to this that should be kept...
View ArticleQuery to Identify Duplicate or Redundant Indexes in SQL Server
I recently noticed that a particular table had two indexes that were nearly identical. In fact, the indexed columns were exactly the same. The only difference was in the included columns. This made me...
View ArticleManaging a SQL Server Database: Tips for Beginners
The company I work for is a web development company that uses SQL Server for its databases. The company is not quite big enough to have a DBA, so each of the developers takes a varying amount of...
View ArticleSQL Query Not Returning All Results When Matching on Multiple Search Terms -...
The Problem I ran into an obscure issue today with a SQL Query that seemed to be failing to match on multiple words. For instance, it would match correctly on “search” but not on “search terms”. The...
View ArticleSimplifying Manual Insertion of Static Data from one Database to another
Problem Description We’ve all run into the issue. You have created a look-up table on one database, perhaps a test database. Now it’s time to take it live, and you need to port all the rows from the...
View ArticlePage Level Web Application Database Optimization
Do you know what queries are required to run for a single page load in your application? If not, perhaps you should. That is a great question I wish I would have asked myself a long time ago, but...
View ArticleComputing Color-Based Representation of Performance
Initial Work I have been working on trying to visually represent numerical data of how a particular user/student has performed, and I thought I would share some of my thoughts. There are many different...
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Cropping Images with Javascript and Croppie.js
Profile images are a popular thing on web sites. If you sign into a site, chances are you probably have a profile image for that site. Sure, there are services like gravatar, but let's face it - not...
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LiveZilla On Azure App Service
LiveZilla Azure App Service This guide will walk you through the basics of setting up LiveZilla to run on PaaS service such as Azure App Service. In my case I had to migrate an existing LiveZilla...
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