Category Archives: Tools

NHibernate “Could not find the dialect in the configuration” “Could not compile the mapping document”

Posted on May 16, 2011 by v.

These are the show-stoppers for me for quite a while. I was using the example from the book trying to replace App.config (in my case Web.config) with hibernate.cfg.xml so I can have different configuration in a test project, but these … Continue reading →

Posted in Software Development, Tools | Tagged .NET, Microsoft, NHibernate | 3 Comments

Team Foundation Server 2010 Setup

Posted on March 18, 2011 by v.

Don’t try this at home, OK? I wanted to try out less than Basic TFS setup. I only wanted source control part to start with. I took the following: Existing AD Domain Domain user on local machine with VS 2010 … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, Software Development, Tools | Tagged Microsoft, TFS 2010 | 1 Comment

TFS 2010 on cloned 2008 R2 server in AD domain

Posted on March 18, 2011 by v.

For a while I was blaming bad documentation for a number of days spent figuring out what’s wrong, but I finally realized that my case is rather specific. Here are some of requirements that took a while to figure out: … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, Tools | Tagged Hyper-V, Microsoft, TFS 2010, Virtual | Leave a comment

PHP Development on Windows

Posted on June 17, 2010 by v.

Being a Windows user, during many years of PHP development, I’ve evaluated various versions of WAMP and XAMPP packages, tried to manually setup Apache and MySQL, and I must say that I’ve had some success there. Finally – I have … Continue reading →

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Automatic Home&Office Backup Solution

Posted on May 6, 2009 by v.

Here’s an example how one can easily setup home or office backup solution using free software and Windows features. You’ll need the following: Microsoft SyncToy available here Access to Windows Scheduled Tasks A backup drive (external or internal, but it’s … Continue reading →