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  • 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.…

  • You can have your pi and eat it too.

    You can have your pi and eat it too. via Instagram http://instagr.am/p/L2wrM5yRZX/

  • 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…

  • 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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