Very seldom do I run into a problem and feel like I am the first to encounter it, especially with programming. When developing for Windows 8 I feel that way quite a lot. I have been working on a small script to build, sign, and deploy a metro app into the Metro UI environment. Below [...] [...more]
I recently wanted to perform a search through all the comments for a Reddit story. Rather than clicking on all the “Load more comments” links, I figured I would let JavaScript do it for me. If you try to click them all at once, Reddit tends to freeze. This method allows a one second pause [...] [...more]
I use a Scrum backlog Excel spreadsheet to keep track of progress made on certain tasks and stories. There is a column for each standup meeting where I document the number of hours remaining on for the task. Usually the amount goes down, but sometimes it goes up and a lot of the time no [...] [...more]
I have a few iPod/iPhone USB cables, and one of them has a short in it. Somehow when plugged in, it causes every USB port on my computer to “shut off”, including for ports which are in use. For the longest time I was restarting my computer to get the ports working again, but luckily [...] [...more]
If you have used Expression Encoder, you have probably seen the XAP files that it comes with to play video files. The sample code they have to embed and play the files seem to be either non existent or too complex. Below is an example for MediaPlayerTemplate.xap with a Smooth Streaming video file. If you [...] [...more]
A while ago I was getting an error while attempting to debug an ASP.Net application. I suppose it was trying to push temporary dll files that it needed into the temp directory, but was unable to do so. I feel as though it should be notice that this was a handler (ashx) that was being [...] [...more]
At work I have been noticing an increase in time it takes to remove a file from a solution. Several weeks ago it took about ten seconds, but recently it has been taking a few minutes. The other day while waiting for a file to be deleted I decided to figure out what was causing [...] [...more]
stsadm.exe is a command driven application that I use very often to administrate a SharePoint server via command line. More specifically, it is very heavily in a PowerShell script I wrote that deploys multiple solutions to SharePoint. The general syntax for stsadm is stsadm -o createsiteinnewdb -url http://sharepointserver More than often I will run into [...] [...more]
Update: Somehow this is a relatively popular post. It was originally intended only for documenting how to renew your IP by scripting, but I have received a few request for simply documenting how to do it manually. Instructions for this are at the end of the article. I’ve been a pretty big fan of the [...] [...more]
Earlier today I thought it would be nice to display a progress meter while copying a directory. After thinking about it for a while I realized that I would need to do something asynchronous, like creating a new thread. Much to my dismay I found no such thing which was quite a shock considering how [...] [...more]
