Author: Dirk Watkins
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The New Face of CompSci!
Looks who’s the new face of Carroll’s Master of Software Engineering. Yes, that’s me.
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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.…
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Dirk’s Lawnmower Cream Ale Recipe
Cream Ale (based on Weed, Feed and Mow from Brewing Classic Styles) Style: Cream Ale OG: 1.050 Type: All Grain FG: 1.009 Rating: 0.0 ABV: 05.40 % Calories: 162 IBU’s: 16.50 Efficiency: 80 % Boil Size: 7.25 Gal Color: 3.7 SRM Batch Size: 5.00 Gal Boil Time: 90 minutes Fermentation Steps Name Days / Temp…
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Merging Changes from Branches in SVN
This is a tip for TortoiseSVN Source Control and covers branching and merging. If you don’t know what that is, read this nice help document. We often need to try out an idea without mucking up the main line of development. To do this we copy the code out into a “branched” version. I use these…
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How to Remove Labels from Beer Bottles
Every once and a while, as a reluctant as we are, home brewers sometimes buy beer. Shocking isn’t it? It’s not a big deal; we usually reuse those bottles for our own brew. But there’s a problem with this. One of the biggest pains for a home brewer is removing labels from old bottles. In fact,…