Tag Index

 Android (4) Aurelia (1) Azure (3) Biking (2) BlockChain (1) Blogging (8) CmdLine (11) Database (26) DotNetCore (1) DotNetFramework (8) Fun (8) Hardware (37) IIS (5) Json (3) Knockout (3) Life (4) Linq (1) Mac (7) Mapping (5) Music (10) Networking (9) NodeJS (1) Oracle (2) Outdoors (5) PHP (4) Photography (6) PowerShell (11) Printing (2) Productivity (6) ProjMgmt (6) Projectors (3) Security (12) Software (6) Synthesis (4) SysAdmin (15) TypeScript (1) VCS (2) Video (5) VisualStudio (3) WPF (2) WebDev (20) Windows 8+ (6) Windows Sandbox (1) WordPress (3) Xamarin (11) eReading (2) iOS (3)

 Android (4)

Android Emulator Nuggets
KeePass + Cloud Storage = (near) Password Nirvana
Loading Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS – Android v4.0) on Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 (P6800)
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 (P6800)

 Aurelia (1)

Aurelia – initial paper cuts

 Azure (3)

Exposing Azure Function web API to native & web clients through Azure AD authentication
Lighter Spin on ADAL in Xamarin Forms
List all your Azure RDP’s

 Biking (2)

Trailer Hitch Bike Rack
Logitech S715i Portable iPod Speakers Review

 BlockChain (1)

Ethereum 101 on Windows

 Blogging (8)

Embed Github Content In Post
Internet Archive (aka Wayback Machine) blog image recovery
Fixing OpenSSL on WordPress Windows PHP 5.6+
Automatic Header Links
HTML5 Canvas based 3d Tag Cloud
External Content in Blogger Post
Blogger Custom Domain
“Blogumus” – Blogger Label Tag 3D Cloud Widget

 CmdLine (11)

Self Escalating Batch
Win+X Menu scripted
ListShortcuts.csx
Launch .CSX as conveniently as .BAT files
Using “C# Interactive” aka CSI/CSX for ETL
Bash script – loop over inline list of files
[SOLVED] Acer Aspire One won’t boot Syslinux USB thumbdrive
SED – Insert text after match
SQL Split AWK Script
SymLinks (and their ilk) Are Excellent System Restore ‘Glue’
Transparent Command Shell (Windows)

 Database (26)

Oracle vs SQL Server
Oracle Data Access Components – Development Installation Tips
Oracle Forms 11g Development Installation Tips
PHP SQL Server blob hosting
Using “C# Interactive” aka CSI/CSX for ETL
SQL Server PDO PHP7
Shred GPX WPT XML with SQL Server
SQL Server Aliasing
[SOLVED] SSRS (2012), Excel export, “Not a legal OleAut date” error
DST T-SQL
Enable SSL Connections to SQL Server
Recovering failed SQL Server 2012 Installation
Hacking Profiler into SSMS Express
Exporting and Re-deploying SQL Server 2008 Maintenance Plans
SQL Server – [SOLVED] “Unable to initialize SSL encryption because a valid certificate could not be found, and it is not possible to create a self-signed certificate."
SQL Server Table-Valued Stored Procedure Parameters ADO.Net
Evolving a custom ADO.Net based repository
YASBE – Open Source Code Incremental Backup Windows WPF Application
Fix Orphaned SQL Server Database Users
WPF .Net 4 LOB Application Framework
Handy ETL JScript
Yet Another Simple Audit Table Approach (YASATA : )
SED – Insert text after match
SQL Server Import and Export Wizard with MSDE2000 (aka DTSWizard)
SQL Split AWK Script
SQL Server "CHECKSUM()"

 DotNetCore (1)

Aurelia – initial paper cuts

 DotNetFramework (8)

HttpWebResponse from WebException
Light Custom Configuration Section
SQL Server Table-Valued Stored Procedure Parameters ADO.Net
CAC (SmartCard) Enabling ASP.Net on IIS
2011 Q4 .Net State of the Union
Evolving a custom ADO.Net based repository
YASBE – Open Source Code Incremental Backup Windows WPF Application
ASP.Net (& Ajax) Notes

 Fun (8)

Man Cave Bling – Beer Fridge – Koldfront 80 (BBR900BL) by EdgeStar
Amiga – Future Tank game (Tron Font)
Grand Mal Mocha
Word of the Day – Austere
Richard Feynman (Nobel Physicist, 1918 – 1988)
Very interesting (old) BBC series by James Burke – tracks the thread of inventions underlying our specialized society
Awesome, CAD for LEGOs!
Word of the Day – Meretricious

 Hardware (37)

gBox Resurrected
Configuring VMware ESXi as a Workstation
Sizing a Battery Backup (aka UPS)
2015Q1 Haswell-E X99 Build
Installing Windows in UEFI Mode
[SOLVED] Acer Aspire One won’t boot Syslinux USB thumbdrive
Man Cave Bling – Beer Fridge – Koldfront 80 (BBR900BL) by EdgeStar
Trailer Hitch Bike Rack
Roof Cargo Box
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 (P6800)
ATI 5450 with Hackintosh (OSX 10.8.5)
Ode to Griffin AirClick USB – Radio Frequency PC Media Remote
Going Portrait!
Garmin 10x Bluetooth GPS Receiver Broken Clip Hack
HighPoint RocketRAID 620 indeed works for Hackintosh
Projector Roundup 2011 Q1
150W Auto DC to AC Inverter with USB
Overclocking ‘Skeletor’ Q9450 – Round 2
Blu-ray Burner & Media Shopping
[SOLVED!] Photoshop CS5 – Detected Video Card: Blank
Overclocking ‘Skeletor’ Q9540 v1.0
Considering Home Network Storage Alternatives
Logitech S715i Portable iPod Speakers Review
CREE LED Based Bicycle Lights and Rechargeable Lithium Ion Batteries
Hacking ATI x1300 into Mac OS X (Latest = Snow Leopard v10.6.8)
Portable Air Compressor – Dust Out Your PC In Style : )
Open Air PC
Continuous Ink Supply System (CISS)
GPS Receivers
My Pick for USB to SATA/IDE (2.5”/3.5”) Adaptor
LED Projectors
Projector Cables & Connections – More Complex Than You’d Think (or “VGA vs Component vs HDMI vs DVI” :)
Optoma EX525ST – A worthy short throw projector?
My Current Favorite 2.5” Drive + Enclosure
Apparently Defragging RAID Actually Makes Sense
Canon’s consumer inkjet printer + scanner workhorses
Samsung Q1U-V Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC)

 IIS (5)

Cleanly driving SSL and WWW prefix on IIS
[SOLVED] Comodo v7 blocking HTTP/S and FTP/S on Windows 8.1 IIS 8.5
CAC (SmartCard) Enabling ASP.Net on IIS
WebDrive (WebDAV client… that actually works!)
Enable IIS7 under BitDefender 2009 Firewall Rules

 Json (3)

Syncfusion Xamarin.Forms SfDataGrid – Binding to List>
Linq Enumerable to another Collection
Json.Net Serialize Dictionary to List

 Knockout (3)

Knockout-Validation lib – clean patterns
Knockout HTML5 Canvas Signature Capture
Knockout, Validation, Bootstrap skinned File Input

 Life (4)

KeePass + Cloud Storage = (near) Password Nirvana
Man Cave Bling – Beer Fridge – Koldfront 80 (BBR900BL) by EdgeStar
Our 4-Hour Body Recipe
Very interesting (old) BBC series by James Burke – tracks the thread of inventions underlying our specialized society

 Linq (1)

Linq Enumerable to another Collection

 Mac (7)

Updating 2006 MacBook Pro to Win 10
Configuring VMware ESXi as a Workstation
Install OS X to physical via VMware
KeePass + Cloud Storage = (near) Password Nirvana
ATI 5450 with Hackintosh (OSX 10.8.5)
HighPoint RocketRAID 620 indeed works for Hackintosh
Hacking ATI x1300 into Mac OS X (Latest = Snow Leopard v10.6.8)

 Mapping (5)

Georeference Trail Map Image to mobile Google Earth
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 (P6800)
GPS / Mapping / Garmin – Tips
GPS Receivers
Samsung Q1U-V Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC)

 Music (10)

[Solved] Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey jQuery sideload and setInterval
iTunes finally has “add to play up next”
Ode to Griffin AirClick USB – Radio Frequency PC Media Remote
CTRL, 1 – Mutes Windows Sound?!?!
iTunesControl
Considering Home Network Storage Alternatives
Logitech S715i Portable iPod Speakers Review
Free iTunes Album Cover Artwork + Embed Artwork Image to MP3 via iTunes COM API SDK w/JavaScript
WinAmp Play History Blog “Badge”
(Fairly) Quick & Painless Streaming of Your Local Audio

 Networking (9)

[SOLVED] Bare CNAME with MX record
Free SSL Certs
[SOLVED] Comodo v7 blocking HTTP/S and FTP/S on Windows 8.1 IIS 8.5
Blogger Custom Domain
Configuring a Windows 7 PC as a WiFi Router
Considering Home Network Storage Alternatives
Enable IIS7 under BitDefender 2009 Firewall Rules
Nifty 'WhatIsMyIP' Script – put current WAN IP on Clipboard
Cisco VPN and "Split Tunneling"

 NodeJS (1)

Weather Wallpaper

 Oracle (2)

Oracle Data Access Components – Development Installation Tips
Oracle Forms 11g Development Installation Tips

 Outdoors (5)

Trailer Hitch Bike Rack
Roof Cargo Box
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 (P6800)
Logitech S715i Portable iPod Speakers Review
CREE LED Based Bicycle Lights and Rechargeable Lithium Ion Batteries

 PHP (4)

Fixing OpenSSL on WordPress Windows PHP 5.6+
PHP SQL Server blob hosting
SQL Server PDO PHP7
PHP7 Debugging under Visual Studio 2015

 Photography (6)

PowerShell Photo Slideshow
Zenphoto – Hide ‘Dot’ Files
Add Video overlay Icon to Zenphoto Thumbnails
Understanding Exposure
[SOLVED!] Photoshop CS5 – Detected Video Card: Blank
Self-hosting Zenphoto on Windows 7 (IIS7, PHP & MySQL)

 PowerShell (11)

Slipstreaming Tools into Windows Sandbox
Internet Archive (aka Wayback Machine) blog image recovery
“Hot Corners” for Windows (PowerShell)
PowerShell WinForms interactive Prototyping/Debugging
PowerShell Photo Slideshow
Transcode MOV to MP4
PowerShell Dual Windows Explorers
Chrome Blacklist Blocker (PowerShell)
List all your Azure RDP’s
Outlook Bulk Remove Encryption
PowerShell f’in rocks!

 Printing (2)

Continuous Ink Supply System (CISS)
Canon’s consumer inkjet printer + scanner workhorses

 Productivity (6)

Windows File Explorer auto extract zips like Mac Finder
“Hot Corners” for Windows (PowerShell)
Migrate from Delicious to Diigo
PowerShell Dual Windows Explorers
Excel – Select (Delete) Blank Rows
The Perfect Desktop

 ProjMgmt (6)

Mockup / Wireframe / Prototype Tools
Locating “Scrum In Five Minutes” By www.Softhouse.se
Expression Blend 4 + SketchFlow is pretty dang cool
MS Project 101 for Developers
Big Swinging Developer
Google Wave – WOW

 Projectors (3)

LED Projectors
Projector Cables & Connections – More Complex Than You’d Think (or “VGA vs Component vs HDMI vs DVI” :)
Optoma EX525ST – A worthy short throw projector?

 Security (12)

Fixing OpenSSL on WordPress Windows PHP 5.6+
Ethereum 101 on Windows
Exposing Azure Function web API to native & web clients through Azure AD authentication
Lighter Spin on ADAL in Xamarin Forms
Free SSL Certs
Chrome Blacklist Blocker (PowerShell)
[SOLVED] Comodo v7 blocking HTTP/S and FTP/S on Windows 8.1 IIS 8.5
KeePass + Cloud Storage = (near) Password Nirvana
[SOLVED] Acer Aspire One won’t boot Syslinux USB thumbdrive
Enable SSL Connections to SQL Server
Outlook Bulk Remove Encryption
CAC (SmartCard) Enabling ASP.Net on IIS

 Software (6)

[SOLVED!] Photoshop CS5 – Detected Video Card: Blank
Scott Hanselman's 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
WebDrive (WebDAV client… that actually works!)
Awesome, CAD for LEGOs!
(Fairly) Quick & Painless Streaming of Your Local Audio
Transparent Command Shell (Windows)

 Synthesis (4)

Georeference Trail Map Image to mobile Google Earth
Grand Mal Mocha
Evolving a custom ADO.Net based repository
Crazy Proxy Remote Virtual World, or – my first courtship with Google Voice

 SysAdmin (15)

Windows File Explorer auto extract zips like Mac Finder
Easy *Native* Windows Self Extracting EXE Builder (SFX)
List all your Azure RDP’s
[SOLVED] Acer Aspire One won’t boot Syslinux USB thumbdrive
What’s this? A pretty decent “Time Machine” built into Win8!?
Reclaiming disk space from “system volume information”
CTRL, 1 – Mutes Windows Sound?!?!
Considering Home Network Storage Alternatives
Apparently Defragging RAID Actually Makes Sense
Enable IIS7 under BitDefender 2009 Firewall Rules
PowerShell f’in rocks!
Nifty 'WhatIsMyIP' Script – put current WAN IP on Clipboard
Cisco VPN and "Split Tunneling"
Volume Shadow Copy Service is Pretty Cool
Transparent Command Shell (Windows)

 TypeScript (1)

VS Code, Typescript – Bare Metal New Project

 VCS (2)

Team Services Cheat Sheet
TortoiseSVN + Code.Google.com = development LOCATION nirvana

 Video (5)

Transcode MOV to MP4
Transcoding Motion-JPEG (.MOV) to MPEG-4 (H264)
Considering Home Network Storage Alternatives
Richard Feynman (Nobel Physicist, 1918 – 1988)
Very interesting (old) BBC series by James Burke – tracks the thread of inventions underlying our specialized society

 VisualStudio (3)

VS Code, Typescript – Bare Metal New Project
Nuget Cheatsheet
Visual Studio 2010 Slow Startup [resolved]

 WPF (2)

YASBE – Open Source Code Incremental Backup Windows WPF Application
WPF .Net 4 LOB Application Framework

 WebDev (20)

StackBlitz WebContainers - vscode with full npm build terminal! on a web page
Embed Github Content In Post
Minimal Pure CSS Expand/Collapse Widget
VS Code, Typescript – Bare Metal New Project
Syncfusion Xamarin.Forms SfDataGrid – Binding to List>
ASP.Net Controller API nuggets
Kendo UI Nuggets
Nuget Cheatsheet
Baseline IIS Settings
JavaScript (ES7) async wrappers perfect for Chrome.Bookmarks API
Automatic Header Links
Exposing Azure Function web API to native & web clients through Azure AD authentication
GreaseMonkey hacking Gmail
[Solved] Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey jQuery sideload and setInterval
Knockout, Validation, Bootstrap skinned File Input
Chrome User Script – Whack page elements based on jQuery selectors
Minimal pure css expand/collapse widget
Style all select tags with a given CSS class into a fancy radio button look
WhatTheFont ?
HTML Table tag has a handy Caption sub-tag

 Windows 8+ (6)

Recurring Windows 10 Tweaks
Installing Windows in UEFI Mode
[SOLVED] Comodo v7 blocking HTTP/S and FTP/S on Windows 8.1 IIS 8.5
[SOLVED] Win8.1 Upgrade – No “Keep Windows settings, personal files, and apps” option
What’s this? A pretty decent “Time Machine” built into Win8!?
Windows 8 Search Drops Outlook :(

 Windows Sandbox (1)

Slipstreaming Tools into Windows Sandbox

 WordPress (3)

Fixing OpenSSL on WordPress Windows PHP 5.6+
WordPress – show all Tags in Cloud
WordPress Append HashTag to PermaLink

 Xamarin (11)

Syncfusion Xamarin.Forms SfDataGrid – Binding to List>
[SOLVED] Certain Font Awesome icons not showing in Xamarin iOS
Xamarin iOS Provisioning Gotchas
Troubleshooting Prism Xamarin Forms
Exposing Azure Function web API to native & web clients through Azure AD authentication
Solving Visual Studio 2017 -> Xamarin Mac Agent connectivity issues
Lighter Spin on ADAL in Xamarin Forms
Toggle XAML Code-Behind in Visual Studio 2015, ReSharper, Xamarin Forms
Auto Generate PNG’s for Font Awesome icons
Script to generate dozens of required iOS app icon images
Configuring VMware ESXi as a Workstation

 eReading (2)

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 (P6800)
Samsung Q1U-V Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC)

 iOS (3)

Xamarin iOS Provisioning Gotchas
Script to generate dozens of required iOS app icon images
Configuring VMware ESXi as a Workstation