Application Settings are the recommended way to save state between runs of your program. Long gone are the days of using the registry or INI files to save information. The only problem with Application Settings though is that they tend to disappear whenever you release a new version of your application. Fortunately, it is easy [...]

Most of the installation instructions for the ruby debugger that I found were out of date for Windows, so I thought it would be useful to document how I got it working. First, you should start with Ruby installed from the RubyInstaller. If you have any problems with getting debugging working, I would suggest installing [...]

It seems that whenever I set up a new computer to debug PHP, I need to Google around to remind myself of the steps, so I thought I would document them here for reference. The following is for an XAMPP Apache/PHP install, but the basic steps are the same for any PHP install. Install and [...]

As the people who know me know, I have been a big proponent of log4net over the years. I tried very hard to stick with log4net despite years of inactivity of the project. Over the years, I found, reported and fixed issues, but the patches have never been applied. I have reached out to the [...]

Real developers live on the command line. Way back in 1996, Microsoft released the Command Prompt Here Power Toy to ease their pain. Industrious developers who preferred the Visual Studio command prompt took it and adopted it to run a Visual Studio command prompt with all of the paths to Visual Studio and .NET tools [...]