Posted by Johan Cyprich on 24 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: General
Programming
If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning and the response would be, “We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more”. (Mark Minasi)
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 10 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Applications
Today a maintenance release for WordPress was release. Version 2.7.1 fixes 68 bugs that were discovered. There weren’t any major security issues so the update isn’t that critical. The interesting thing about 2.7.1 is that the upgrade was done from within the Dashboard. I just pressed the upgrade button and the new files were downloaded [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 06 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: How To
Today I received a 2 .dat files from a client who needed the contents converted into a useful file format, i.e. pdf, jpg, etc. I opened the file in Notepad++ and saw that the .dat files were an e-mail with an attached PDF. The first thing I tried was renamed the files to .msg and [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 04 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Applications
Now that I’m using PowerShell more, I’m looking for a good editor for it. The GUI editor that comes with PowerShell 2.0 is ok, but it only works well with editing one document at a time. If you have multiple libraries and modules, it may be difficult managing your project.
The first place I looked was [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 03 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Applications
Every systems administrator and power user is very familiar with CMD.EXE: the command line interpreter for Windows. Its used for running applications from the command line, and also for performing administrative tasks with batch files. Not much has changed with the traditional command line interpreter from the days of DOS 1.0. The batch language has [...]