Installing MS SQL Server on Ubuntu

At Microsoft Connect(); 2016, it was announced that MS SQL Server was available for Linux (Ubuntu and RedHat) and MacOS. This was a real surprise and I’m not sure if its free or not. It was an easy installation on Ubuntu 16 running on HyperV on a Windows...

A Better Error Page on the Canada Immigration Site

Tonight during the historic US election, the Canadian Immigration site (http://www.cic.gc.ca/) was down. I’m sure it had nothing to do with Americans trying to leave their country and move to Canada in light of the imminent Trump victory. The following ASP.NET error...

Direct URL for a Store in XMPie uStore

You can login to an XMPie uStore using a direct URL. This is just for debugging purposes. Normally an outside user will use a friendly URL that the proxy server generates. The URL for accessing a store is:      ...

How To Download Visual Studio 2015 for Offline Install

I don’t mind online installers. They’re convenient but if your installing a multi-gigabyte application, you don’t want to reinstall it this way. Visual Studio 2015 is one of those apps. This, in my humble opinion, is the best software developer tool...

Using an Apostrophe in a Variable in MSSQL

A user created an account in my web application which had an apostrophe in their e-mail address. It was similar to First_D’Second@website.com. I didn’t think that an apostrophe was a valid character for an e-mail so I didn’t have any code to prevent...

Setup Emergency Alerts !important

I’ve compiled a list of important emergency alerts that should be on your cell phone and Twitter accounts. These can be found on the EmergencyInfoBC web site, but I summarized the important data to use with your devices for receiving these alerts. Two of these...