Information Technology Quo Vadis, Lenovo T-Series? Or: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Christian Donner, January 31, 2014February 17, 2014 With many compromises, it is not clear of Lenovo’s 2014 T-Series models actually represent an improvement over earlier generations. Continue Reading
Strava and the Garmin Communicator Plugin on IE 11 Christian Donner, December 27, 2013December 27, 2013 Ever since IE 11 came out earlier this fall, I have been having problems with… Continue Reading
MVC 5 on Windows Server 2008/IIS 7 Christian Donner, December 27, 2013September 17, 2015 Pipeline issues with MVC 5 on Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7 cause HTTP Error 403.14 – Forbidden The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory Continue Reading
Mobile Devices Google Glass – Ready for the masses? Christian Donner, December 22, 2013January 18, 2014 Recently I became a Glass Explorer. I joined the ranks of Explorers rather late, and all the… Continue Reading
Big Commerce Template Development – Six Best Practices Christian Donner, December 22, 2013December 22, 2013 BigCommerce is a popular eCommerce platform for cloud-hosted online stores. The templating process for building… Continue Reading
Troubleshooting the Windows 8.1 upgrade: VMWare Workstation network connectivity lost Christian Donner, November 5, 2013November 5, 2013 The Windows 8.1 upgrade does damage to the VMWare Workstation bridge protocol. If repair attempts are combined with a VMWare Workstation upgrade, things can get dicey. Continue Reading
Troubleshooting the Windows 8.1 upgrade: SecureBoot isn’t configured correctly Christian Donner, November 5, 2013November 5, 2013 If you have secure boot turned off in the UEFI firmware settings, for example because… Continue Reading
Lenovo Thinkpad T430s and the Micron SSD 2100 Error Christian Donner, July 8, 2013July 10, 2013 My own T430s laptop is only six months old, but its primary SSD has failed… Continue Reading
Information Technology QNAP RAID Expansion Christian Donner, July 8, 2013October 11, 2014 Expanding a RAID array on a QNAP NAS device is documented in detail in the… Continue Reading
T-SQL: replace occurrences of two or more characters in a row with a single new character Christian Donner, May 31, 2013May 31, 2013 Here is a T-SQL UDF that replaces occurrences of two or more characters in a… Continue Reading