Year: 2012

  • Remove Windows Authentication Prompts in Firefox

    If you have intranet sites using Windows Auth that are not fully qualified domain names (fqdn) (like http://companyintranet/) you probably noticed that Firefox constantly prompts your users to enter their windows authentication credentials.  You can easily get Firefox to work like IE by allowing automatic logins. Go to “about:config” Filter the keys down to “network.automatic”…

  • dirkwatkins.net

    I just bought dirkwatkins.net. Finally. So, if you go there, you will just come here. Very fancy indeed.

  • Easy Properties in Visual Studio

    In a Visual Studio 2012 class file, type “prop” and then press tab twice.  There are a few options, but at least check out “prop” and “propfull”.  This will create a template getter/setter property for you!  When you modify the datatype and the variable names, they’ll update in both.  Try it! Properties are especially useful in…

  • The New Face of CompSci!

    The New Face of CompSci!

    Looks who’s the new face of Carroll’s Master of Software Engineering. Yes, that’s me.

  • Speed Up IIS Application Boot Times

    Speed Up IIS Application Boot Times

    By default IIS 7.5 will recycle your web application’s worker process after 20 minutes of inactivity. In a nutshell, this means that when you have a site that is used lightly, it will take a while to start up. This is because it has to load all the dependent assemblies and store them in memory.…