Author Archives: David Hogue

Changing which conversation an email is grouped in with Outlook 2010

Posted on August 8, 2011 by David Hogue

Outlook 2010 has a conversation grouping feature that can be pretty handy when you have a lot of different conversations headed to your inbox. However sometimes it gets confused. Unfortunately it’s pretty poor at handling a few situations: when several … Continue reading →

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In response to Request for Comments: Issues with .NET and Microsoft Product Versioning

Posted on July 28, 2011 by David Hogue

I started writing a comment on Scott Hanselman’s blog post Request for Comments: Issues with .NET and Microsoft Product Versioning, but it got too long so I decided to make my own post about it. A few thoughts to throw … Continue reading →

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So I’ve been playing around with IPv6 at home lately

Posted on July 14, 2011 by David Hogue

IPv6, if you haven’t heard, is supposed to be the future protocol of the internet. Currently we’re all using IPv4 to talk to servers and such online. IPv4 has a limited number of addresses and there’s enough computers online these … Continue reading →

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Okay, so this place is pretty dead… Time for an experiment!

Posted on July 8, 2011 by David Hogue

When I started up this new blog, I figured it’d be slow but I would post every once in a while. That hasn’t really happened, it’s been six months since I last posted. That’s partly due to being too busy, … Continue reading →

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It’s a new year, time to archive last year’s email

Posted on January 6, 2011 by David Hogue

The last few years I’ve taken to backing up all of the previous year’s email and deleting most of it. This keeps my exchange account from taking up too much space, Outlook from bogging down, and I can still find … Continue reading →

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Some Parameters for msdeploy.exe

Posted on December 16, 2010 by David Hogue

I’ve been trying to get msdeploy working for me at work.  Hopefully it will be able to replace some PowerShell/Robocopy scripts I have for updating our servers. To deploy/update an existing site to local: msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:Package=”<Package.zip>” -test:iisApp=’<Website>’ To deploy/update … Continue reading →

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Starting up a new blog

Posted on December 16, 2010 by David Hogue

So I’m finally getting a new blog going.  My old blog has been dead for almost 3 years now.  I always intended to move it over to this site, but I never got around to it.  There have been times … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer 7 usage stats

Posted on January 25, 2008 by David Hogue

So Internet Explorer 7 has been out for over a year (it was released on October 18th), yet there are still enough IE6 users that we still have to code for it. IE6 has some horrible rendering inconsistencies and bugs … Continue reading →

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So Who Reads This Thing Anyways?

Posted on January 19, 2008 by David Hogue

I recently got to wondering who, if anyone, out there is reading my blog. I’ve just been thinking about it and was getting curious. I know at least one colleague at work that does. I think there’s a few developers … Continue reading →

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The Fun Part of Having People You Know Read Your Blog

Posted on January 9, 2008 by David Hogue

Me: I started digging into some Reflection.Emit stuff the recently. Him: I think I just saw a post about that the other day. Me: Was it the one I wrote last night? Him: Was that you? I didn’t even realize … Continue reading →

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