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How to find all printers in your Active Directory

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:29:39 GMT

If you ever want to do a prank (http://www.angryhacker.com/berry/HpPrinterFun.html) on a massive scale, you need to find all the printers in your Active Directory, not only ones that are connected to your computer. Oddly enough, the method to find them is not trivial.

5 ways to be a more efficient developer in 5 minutes

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:10:49 GMT

After reading 8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes article, I thought I'll come up with my own list, but focus on efficiency and speed. Anyway, here it goes.

How to reference an assembly from the GAC

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:04:13 GMT

One persistent point of pain and misunderstanding for many .NET devs is referencing assemblies that are in the GAC, but do not appear in the 'Add Reference' dialog. This article provides workarounds and explains the nuts and bolts of this issue.

Subtext ported to MySQL

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:04:21 GMT

In addition to Microsoft SQL Server, Subtext can now run on MySQL open source database server.

Essential Developer Productivity Tools List

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:46:06 GMT

After reading Scott Hanselman's Developer and Power User Tools List, I took inventory of my system and, surprisingly, found very little overlap. My utilities tends toward the developer productivity tools, the things that makes you lazy and make your life convenient.

MySQL eye for an Microsoft SQL Server guy

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:31:01 GMT

As I've been porting Subtext to MySQL, it's been a learning experience. I've come to both marvel at MySQL's simplicity and tear my hair out at the maddening insanity of half-implemented features. I go back and forth between saying "SQL Server should have done this" and "SQL Server had this in 1997, why can't these guys".