Accessing an Unreachable Raspberry PI 3 After a Motion Eye Snafu
I’ve got a Raspberry PI on which I have installed Motion Eye OS. This is a great tool and I readily recommend it, but like a ding-bat, I managed to…
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When MySQL Just Won’t Stop!
Last night I was running a big import on an Azure VM and thought that my shutdown at 11pm would give it enough time. I was wrong 🙂 Sadly, when…
Is That My Book : Tidying the API
I’ve been busy progressing with my Is That My Book application, but lately, mainly been focusing on fixing up the API to attempt to make it sparkle. As I have…
Is That My Book : First Steps
I watched through all of David’s videos today and as expected, they were great. There really are some fantastic YouTubers sharing their knowledge for free, which is so useful; I’ll…
Is That My Book? : Technology
I’ve already spoken a little about trends in the software world but for me, I want to do something that I will finds interesting or new if it’s my pet…
Is That My Book?
I love books. I’ve zillions (give or take a few zillion) and apart from the many problems I have in finding a place to keep them, my next problem is…
How Popular is Your Programming Language?
With the ever increasing numbers of programming languages, frameworks, databases and other technologies, there isn’t a way for you to know everything, or be anywhere close to that. So, if you…
Creating Links to Folders in WAMP
I’ve installed WAMP on my laptop into C:\wamp64\www and one way of implementing websites and HTML files installed to place them in that folder. That works, but what I don’t like about…
Using VS Code to Create a 6502 Hello World
Some of you will be looking at this title and thinking: “What the…?“. Others will be transported back in time to little beauties such as this: So what exactly is…
Extracting CSV Data From Trello
Trello is a great product and I use it to track our backlog, current items and completed tasks. For a free product, I can’t complain at all, but recently, I…
Stopping Windows Updates (Temporarily)
This is a quick tip if you find yourself in the situation where you need a PC to remain on (desperately!) but it keeps threatening to reboot and install updates….
.NET Versions
Barry Luijbregts has an interesting video of the current .NET eco system on Pluralsight which I recommend you watch but in the meantime, he talked about some interesting facts about…
Obtaining Unique IDs with PowerShell
I’m currently working on a project where I have a bunch of images which will be referenced and displayed using a RESTful MVC application. Something like this would be my…
Killing Processes Softly with PowerShell
This is a quick tip on how to obliterate processes that are running in the background on a Windows machine. In my case, I was working on a project which,…
Cool Visual Studio 2017 Tip #4 : Templates
I was recently watching an interesting C#7 video by Jesse Liberty and noticed that within it, he was using his own project type to demonstrate the new features of the…