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Due to a growing need to organize and group different IM accounts for many of my bussiness contacts all over the world, I considered using universal IM clients starting with Trillian and later moving on to Pidgin. I'm sharing here some of my experience with these tools and their Skype integration.

Last week I was faced with a problem where one of our ASP.NET apps caused long waiting times between callbacks in a certain situation. After exhausting all the troubleshooting tools and ideas, yet again I had to turn to WinDbg as a last resort. The results quite suprisingly reveiled a cuplrit in a tiny, innocent looking Linq lambda expression piece of code...

jQuery solution for expanding HTML text within its container for the purposes of producing large titles of variable text length.

Certain software requires hardware UUID for licensing purposes. When moving a physical machine to a virtual one, the hardware unique identifier is changed causing the software licensing to fail. The solution is to manually override it on a virtual machine if the virtualization environment permits it. Here's how this can be done in Hyper-V and ProxMox KVM.

We use Telerik web controls a lot and one of the most powerful ones is their RadFileExplorer. Recently a client requested us to implement a multiple download functionality which is not included by default.

We started using the ProxMox Virtual Environment for various Linux and Windows systems in our company and wanted to virtualize our Redmine TurnKey Linux appliance. We could have done it via KVM, but wanted to explore the option of using another virtualization method in ProxMox - OpenVZ container virtualization, which should have a better performance and utilization of machine resources.

Mono is not all about MonoX, eCTD and ASP.NET development. This article is the first one in a series describing the other topics we are dealing with on a daily basis. Due to various virtualization needs in our company we have initially started using the Microsoft Hyper-V. However, all the Linux solutions were are using and designing made us look the other way, just in time to find a hidden gem in the virtualization land.