Installing Touchpad driver on Apple Macbook Pro running Windows 8.1

I stopped using my Macbook Pro about 1,5 years ago, since I wanted to run a “real” PC for my .NET developing. My MacBook Pro have been in a box since then, and last night I decided to install Windows 8.1 RT on it and use it as a second PC since my main machine is quite large and heavy to bring around. Also, the keyboard on this macbook is way better than on my main laptop. After a couple of hours installing Windows 8.1 yesterday, everything spun up, but i was in for a suprise: Touchpad not working So,...…

I don't know Regex

Do you? I have used Regex for trivial tasks, validating some input data (never validate emails with Regex btw, that is a Bad Thing TM), some really simple parsing etc. But I do not know how to write it. I Google. And I find some type of designer and then I pretty much bruteforce my way until i find the right combination of dots, questionmarks and brackets. NO MORE!! I spent the day trying to learn a bit more about Regex. I did learn some, but instead of trying to become good at writing it, I built a library that...…

Keep your Free Azure Website from idle (app pool timeout)

Notice: My hosted service has been paused until further notice. Currently Windows Azure Free/Shared Websites will unload your application from memory after some inactivity. The reasons are quite easy to understand, since there are a lot of free websites getting no traffic, but still wasting system resources at the datacenter. In this free/shared mode, you cannot change this behaviour, so in order to keep your application in memory, you need to have some actual traffic. But what if I don’t have a visit every 20 minutes? Not all websites have a visit every 20 minutes, but still wants their site...…

TypeScript 0.9 Generics: What? And How to use them

Typescript 0.9 was released today and it brings some great things to the Typescript language! In this post i’d like to tell you about Generics and show you how to use them. Let’s get started. Generics is used to add types to functions that can give you different type of objects depending on what you put into them. If you are familiar with .NET or C# a very common Generic Class is the List<>. You can have a list of different type objects, for example: List<int> or List<string>, with the upside that you always get compile time type-safety. A typical...…

TypeScript and Knockout. Where did my this instance go?

So, a problem we had at work was that in one of our TypeScript classes, we set up an class variable as a computed, as so: myComputed = ko.computed( () => { return this.myClassFuntion();});. The problem with this is that typescript will compile a prototype method, and Knockout will change in what context this is run. The result is that this will become window instead of the instance of our class. …

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