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About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

Serialize Nullable<T> or not

When we tried to serialize an object to XML we noticed that Nullable types are special. A class is not serialized when null, but a Nullable type is a struct. See the code blow and notice the highlighted line in … Continue reading

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Time Capsule Archive

My Time Capsule disk died on me recently after upgrading to a bigger one. Luckily my MacBook did not do the same so I could revert back to my old disk and start over with an initial backup. This got … Continue reading

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VS2010 not responding solved with Resource Monitor

My Visual Studio 2010 randomly stopped responding. In my frustration I never looked further than the first tab of the Task Manager to end the task. Until I read a post about the Resource monitor in Windows. What is this … Continue reading

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WCF Streaming with REST on Mono

One of the problems with the mono framework is that streaming is not working properly. I tried to get it working myself and even tried to fix the framework myself. To much trouble as the solution is to use another … Continue reading

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Monotouch

The mono port to iOS is monotouch. Or is it. The code is compiled to native Objective-C, not the Intermediate Language code that compiles at runtime. They call it Ahead of Time compiling. Because C# is now supported on iOS … Continue reading

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