Atlantic Beach

Atlantic Beach Atlantic Beach welcomes new visitors and vacationers back with a hot sun and a wealth of activities. Enjoy the beautiful beaches and major attractions, while enjoying the historic beauty, heritage and amazing the area is known for. They say there are at least 101 things to do on the coast of crystal, and we say with certainty that it is true. Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway and rivers winding, water-activities include boat tours, cruises, scuba diving, Tours Ecology,...

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How to query windows azure diagnostics for a time range?

Windows Azure Diagnostics stores data in Azure Table. Unfortunately, Azure Table only supports a single index, which means queries that don't use the index are dog slow.  In azure terminology, that index is the partition key, and Windows Azure Diagnostics sets the partition key on your behalf using the following formula:     0 + DateTime.Ticks You can generate the Partition key query in powershell for all logs after 7/15 by doing: PS C:\> "PartionKey gt '0$((Get-Date '2011/7/15').Ticks)'" PartionKey gt '0634462848000000000' For the curious, gt is the greater than...

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F# and the immediate window

(This post is inspired from this Stack Overflow question)F# debugger integration is quite good, except for the immediate window. The immediate window requires C# style syntax, so calling F# functions is not intuitive. Below are recipes for the immediate window integrated into a console application. As always code can be found here: // Learn how to use the immediate window for F#.module Program= // To build, add a reference to Microsoft.CSharp. This is required for dynamic support in // the debugger. let allowDynamicToWorkFromImmediateWindowByLoadingCSharpBinders = Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.CSharpBinderFlags.BinaryOperationLogical...

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Using Ads to get free DropBox storage space.

(I did not "invent" this idea, someone told me about it. I figure you'll be interested in the experience, it was rather surprising for me.) Google makes money on ads, oodles and oodles of it. Up until today, I never "understood" the value of ads.  Today, I got a chance to use ads, here is my story: Dropbox is a storage service, if your friend signs up by clicking your referral URL, both you and your friend get 250MB of free storage up to 8GB of storage. This means if you can get 32 (8GB/250MB) friends to sign up you get lots of free storage. As you can imagine, I don't have 32 friends,...

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Using WinDBG/CDB and SOS to find a thread given a ManagedThreadId

CDB and SOS have more power than most people realize, I’ll use this post to show some some handy cdb/sos tricks while at the same answering the simple question of which thread a ManagedThreadId maps to. At the end of this post you’ll be able to: Map a ManagedThreadId to the correct thread ordinal Use CDB to convert from decimal to hex Pipe CDB commands through pipeline commands like findstr Full source for the simple app below can be found here. In the below app we want to figure which thread we’re running on so we can inspect the stack. internal class Program { ...

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Use Paint.Net to Highlight key areas in an image to get your point across

Earlier, I mentioned how important communication is to software engineering. A key tool in communication is being able to highlight portions of images.  For this task I use some basic features of Paint.Net.  In the below image I want to draw your attention to the name of the dress, and the name of the color of the dress. Without these highlighted regions, it's likely your eye wouldn't have picked up the points I wanted you to see. To perform these highlights in Paint.Net do the following:...

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Cool Tools: VirtuaWin

Virtual desktop software allow you have several desktops, and switch between them easily.  This is the equivalent of virtual memory, but for desktop real estate. Good virtual desktop software allows you to move windows between virtual desktops, and will have good usability including hot keys.  VirtuaWin is a great free virtual desktop app for windows,  go install it .  Once installed you should do the following:     Customize the notification area to always show the VirtuaWin Tray Icon    Use C-A-Right, C-A-Left, C-A-Up, C-A-Down to navigate between...

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