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Migrating an MVC site to Orchard Project 2 (Part 2) 3 Dec 2012 | 12:55 am
I've started migrating my application into the module. The major consideration has been handling the use of LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework together. My MVC application uses LINQ to SQL. I had t...
Crashplan and Volume Shadow Copy Errors (Fixed) 15 Nov 2012 | 02:12 am
For the longest time I have been logging Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) errors in my Windows Application log every few seconds. I use Crashplan to back up my machine online – other than those errors I have ...
Modified False Position Method in C++ Accepting a Function Pointer 14 Nov 2012 | 09:32 pm
The modified false position method is fairly straightforward to implement. The method is described in most numerical methods texts in easily translatable pseudo code. The method requires evaluating th...
Migrating an MVC site to Orchard Project (Part 1) 12 Nov 2012 | 02:51 am
I have been moving an asp.net MVC web site of mine to the Orchard Project. As a developer I love working with MVC, however, I had not found a nice solution for content management. All of the solutions...
Getting rid of an ants nest in a parked car 23 Sep 2012 | 08:42 pm
I keep my car parked outside with a car cover on it and move it about every two weeks. This seems to have made it an ideal home for ants, even though there is nothing they could eat in there. They see...
Normal Shock T-s Diagram 15 Sep 2012 | 09:44 pm
A Fanno Flow line on a T-s diagram is developed using the continuity and energy equations. A Rayleigh Flow line on a T-s diagram on the other hand is developed using the continuity and momentum equati...
MediaWiki IIS7 Output Caching and Friendly/Short URLs 13 Sep 2012 | 12:07 am
MediaWiki has been running painfully slow for me out of the box and the solution, as it always seems to be, was to enable caching. I first enabled caching within MediaWiki, but this only helped… a li...
BibTex Citation Management in MediaWiki 5 Sep 2012 | 07:21 pm
Lately I have been setting up a local MediaWiki installation to organize and document my research (see previous posts which relate to installing MediaWiki on Windows). An essential feature is of cours...
How to export Excel plots to a vector image (EPS, EMF, SVG, etc.) 31 Aug 2012 | 07:39 pm
This is a bit of a workaround, but it's the only way I know of to export an Excel plot into a vector format such as EPS or EMF. In my case I needed to export the plot to EPS for inclusion within a LaT...
MediaWiki Short URLs with IIS 7 and Subpages 28 Aug 2012 | 01:21 pm
Following the guide on mediawiki.org got me 99% there with nice short URLs on Windows with IIS 7. One small hiccup, creating subpages of the form wiki/PageTitle/SubPageTitle The suggested Regular E...
