There is a great way to speed up some of the typical repeating tasks you do on your computer: the app called “Auto Hotkey“. What is Auto Hotkey? It’s a lightweight background process that quietly waits and listens for you to press certain keystrokes so that it can perform whatever tasks you gave it to… Read More »
What’s better than dropping your temp tables at the end of every script? Checking for their existence at the beginning of the script and dropping them.
As I was attempting to update my email address in a WordPress blog, it was stuck. A notification said: There is a pending change of the admin email to xoxoxo@xoxoxo.com
There is a handy and free tool to check your system’s uptime called “Uptime”. (Clever, no?) It can be downloaded at http://uptimeexe.codeplex.com. While it is very easy to use (just navigate to it in a command window and type “uptime”), it doesn’t give much of an option for formatting the output to include only the days. So, a… Read More »
This is an update to a previous post. In another post on this site, it was said that Dropbox Paper is the code storage of choice. This has changed. As of today, I much prefer using Microsoft’s GIT code repository known as: devops.azure.com. The benefits are numerous. Ability to revert back to previous versions Ability… Read More »
The engineers at Microsoft decided that people who want to save screen space are not interested in knowing the date.
In JavaScript, dates are based on the UTC time, the starting timezone which all others are based on. You may have a date in JavaScript that should be one particular date but for some reason changes itself to the previous day. The way to fix it is to add the timezone offset to the date.… Read More »
Yes, it is possible to create massive amounts of tags in Evernote rather quickly. You will just need a text editor. First of all, don’t bother trying to use the standard plus-sign on the Evernote left pane. It won’t help you do anything except add one at a time, and will actually be a pain.… Read More »
An email came through that looked somewhat official but had a few “tells” to show that it was fake.
There is a great way to mark sections of your code with a highly visible indicator that requires less effort to identify. It’s preference, for sure. I would imagine that certain people might find this a gaudy way to comment their code, while others would appreciate the practicality of it – because, boy, is it… Read More »