On the morning of October 21st Google Chrome updated itself to the latest version: 0.3.154.9. Immediately after the update I noticed sites using Flash (particularly Google Analytics in my case) no longer working. Chrome just stood there spinning and waiting, but nothing showed.I’ve had some Flash / Chrome issues before, so at first I didn’t [...]

Is Google getting into the more sleazy sides of the internet?No no, nothing so spicy. What it is, is a good example of how automatic trimming routines can lead to surprising results…

I got this error when trying to invoke a web service through Ajax with the following signature: _ Public Function FlagNotifications(ByVal IDs() As Integer) As String The calling code, using ASP.NET AJAX, looks like this: Sys.Net.WebServiceProxy.invoke(webServicePath, \”FlagNotifications\”, false, { \”IDs\”: noteIds }, OnFlaggedNotifications, OnFailed, \”User Context\”, 1000000); I thought when I was passing the parameters, [...]

For some time I have noticed that the visitor traffic to this site followed a strong up/down pattern, a little like a heartbeat: I never realy thought much of it, until today I decided to see if I could find the source of this pattern.Turns out it is as simple as apple pie. The content [...]

When you look at the execution plan for your query, you’ll notice that the query is doing an Index Scan (or even a Table Scan), not an Index Seek. This causes the SELECT COUNT(*) to execute slow. The reason for this is that the COUNT(*) function needs to look at every record in the table. [...]

I recently found my Virtual PC 2007 disk image to be too small for my needs. VPC does not have any tools to expand the disk image, only to compress them or convert from dynamic to fixed size. I used CopyWipe from the \”Ultimate Boot CD\”:http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ to copy my disk to a new, larger one.I [...]