CorFlags 101 Why do we care about a small utility called CorFlags? Most people probably did not, until the release of Windows 2008 R2. W2K8R2 was the first server OS to be released as 64-bit only. Before W2K8R2, the majority of Windows servers were running some version of a 32-bit OS, with the 64-bit flavors...

Nuget 2.7 Error – Input string was not in a correct format I recently installed a fresh copy of Visual Studio 2013 with Nuget 2.7. Shortly afterward I began installing a few Packages, which appeared to occur without a problem. It wasn’t until I began coding against those libraries that I noticed something wasn’t right....

Powershell One Liner – Easy Directory Zipping For me one of most common tasks in Powershell is zipping or extracting files. Whether you’re backing up a few config files before pushing an updated version, or unzipping gigs of log files, dealing with zip files is an ever present task. In the early days of Powershell...

Octopus Deploy 2.0 Review One of the tools that I got involved with this year was Octopus Deploy. Initially, I had my doubts about the product, but I quickly developed a respect for it. A few reasons I like Octopus, it simplifies the whole code deployment process, you can have migrations running in less than...