Web Development, Networking, Security, SEO
Programming languages, frameworks, design patterns, and coding techniques: C#, PHP, Objective-C, Java, Javascript, TypeScript, GO, Rust, & more.
Working with Visual Studio on recent Windows versions such as Windows 10 can be tricky, as the improved security settings of the new OS might create some issues on a …
Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server error on Visual Studio 2015 - How to fix it Read More If you're working with Visual Studio on recent Windows versions, such as Windows 10, you might stumble upon the following error when trying to open an ASP.NET Core or MVC …
Process with an ID #### is not running on Visual Studio 2015 - How to fix it Read More
Today we're sharing a small helper which we built some years ago and yet we're still using to handle most serialization/deserialization tasks within any of our ASP.NET active projects. The …
C# Class to Serialize and Deserialize Objects in XML and JSON for any ASP.NET project Read More
Despite having been shutdown for good some years ago, the Microsoft Jet Data Access Objects interface (better known as DAO) is still up and running, as it's still being used …
Using DAO from Excel VBA VBS Without MS Access installed Read More
Today I was installing the latest (at the time of writing) MediaWiki build, which is 1.27.1, to a customer, together with all the bundled plugins and add-ins, following more or …
MySQL Lock Wait Timeout Exceeded Error in InnoDB Tables - How to fix it Read More
Installing PHP on a Windows machine is quite simple, expecially if you rely on the official setup packages or (even better, if you're using IIS) the great PHP Manager tool …
PHP Error 500 - Cannot start php-cgi.exe - MSVCR110.dll is missing - How to fix Read More If you're using PHP on Windows with IIS you most certainly know the PHP Manager for IIS tool, an excellent GUI that integrates within the IIS Manager interface as a snap-in …
How to install PHP Manager for IIS on Windows Server or Windows 10 Read More If you stumbled upon this post it probably means that your favourite MySQL management client (SQLyog, MySQL Workbench or any other) and/or your MySQL-based website or service is suddently unable …
MySQL User Password Expired: how to (permanently) fix it Read More If you're a System Administrator working with MySQL, you're probably aware about the fact that the most effective way to automatize various tasks on regular basis is using command-line scripts …
MySQL - Secure alternative to include the password in command line scripts using mysql_config_editor and Host Alias Read More
Any System Administrator will agree that the Internet Information Services log files are an invaluable resource for any Web Server machine, since they are the only built-in tool that allows to effectively …
Manage IIS Log Files and purge those older than N days with a Powershell script or a batch file Read More