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HTML5 Beta Breaks Safari

HTML5 Beta Breaks Safari

A few days ago, I learned I couldn’t play YouTube videos in Safari 6. Every YouTube page displayed a black video window with no player controls. Firefox and Chrome were working fine so it wasn’t a YouTube issue. I then learned that our iPads were having the exact same issue. After posting a question on [...]

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Entourage 2008: Dealing with duplicate event notifications

Scenario: There’s only one instance of the event in my calendar, but 15 minutes before the scheduled time Entourage pops up a notification that lists the event twice. Others seem to have been able to resolve the issue by rebuilding and repairing the Entourage database, but that didn’t work for me. Since the events I’m [...]

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Visual Studio 2010: The type or namespace name ‘type/namespace’ could not be found

I recently converted a solution from VS2005 to VS2010. After changing all of my projects to target .NET Framework 4.0, I was plagued with the dreaded CS0246: The type or namespace name ‘type/namespace’ could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) As suggested in the numerous blog posts I [...]

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Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
-- C. P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March 1971

You can't control what you can't measure.
-- Tom DeMarco, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimates, 1982.

Design for 20x capacity. Implement for 3x capacity. Deploy for ~1.5x capacity.
-- Martin L. Abbott & Michael T. Fisher, Scalability Rules: 50 Principals For Scaling Web Sites, 2011

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