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Play again with Sensible World of Soccer on your PC

I’m a person who lives on memories, so today I decided to talk about a soccer game that in my opinion made the history of this genre: Sensible Soccer. At the time of this game’s release I was a kid and the proud owner of a Commodore Amiga, on which I spent several hours of…

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Games

How to extend the trial period of Windows Server 2019

In this short post, I will show you how to extend the trial period of Windows Server 2019. It’s really very easy to do… First I suggest you check how many days are left before the trial period expires. You can do this executing the following command in Windows PowerShell: After executing this command a…

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Windows Server

HTTP 500 – Internal server error in an ASP.NET application

HTTP 500: every web developer has faced this error at least once in his life, and today I want to tell my story… A few days ago I was working on an ASP.NET WebForm application, which consistently showed the error HTTP 500 – Internal server error. Since IIS was configured not to show detailed errors,…

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ASP.NET

An Asteroids clone developed in TypeScript

Good morning everyone! Here we are once again! Today I am proud to announce the release of a clone of the Asteroids game developed in TypeScript. Why build an Asteroids clone? I thought it would be fun and so… I did. For the development I was inspired by this tutorial on w3schools.com, where you can…

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Games

WebResource.axd (404) not found

Good morning guys! A few days ago I was working on an ASP.NET web form application which uses the control library Telerik ASP.NET AJAX. The application worked without problems until it was moved in a new server running Windows Server 2019. Running in the new environment it stopped working and in the browser’s development console…

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ASP.NET

Sql Server error: A severe error occurred on the current command.  The results, if any, should be discarded.

In recent days I was working on one of my projects, in which it was necessary to install Sql Server 2019. I restored the database I was working on in this new Sql Server instance and I started using it. Calling one of the database’s stored procedure, which worked perfectly in the previous Sql Server…

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Sql Server

TDP Robot version 1.0.0.0

My dear friends, it has been a while since my last post. I hope to catch up in the next few days and months, with other interesting posts… For the moment I am pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.0.0 of TDP Robot (my “clone” of Opalis Robot).This new version includes a number of…

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The Dummy Programmer Robot

Install and old Kindle app version in an Android 7 tablet

I am the proud owner of a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, purchased around 2016. It’s the same table which I talk about in this post. Although it is an old device, it still satisfies my needs well: I use it for simple tasks like surfing the internet, reading e-books on Kindle and a few other…

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Android

Sql Server error: Cannot construct data type date, some of the arguments have values which are not valid.

Imagine waking up on a cold winter morning, and receiving an error from your customer that reads as follows: “Cannot construct data type date, some of the arguments have values which are not valid.” Apart from the error message and the web page in which it occurred, I didn’t have much other information. I don’t…

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Sql Server

Run an old Apache ASP web application in Ubuntu 20.04

Hello my friends! It’s been a while since we last spoke … but here I am!Today I want to tell you a new story about my journey through the Linux world: the installation of an old web application developed with Apache ASP and MySql on an Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machine. The application was developed about…

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Ubuntu

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