I found this while cleaning out some folders on my hard drive. After 8 years in the Orlando area, these…
To Florida, or not to Florida: a quality of life question … maybe
I’ve been really amused over the last few months with some discussions about the best (or at least better) place…
The French Taxi Driver Test
This analogy, which I heard long ago while living in Europe, is a very revealing exercise. The story goes as follows:…
Install or Uninstall a Windows Service without Installation Packages
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Generally windows services are deployed one of two ways. One way is in an installation package, that will handle the…
Mimicing an old Dumb-Terminal in a Console, Putty or Powershell Session
For anyone who grew up using a dumb terminal connected to a remote mainframe or minicomputer, or even remembers the…
Google It !
If you haven’t been following the technology-specific news outlets for the past two weeks, it would have been easy to…
Open DHCP Server
I previously used a Winform app that was a simple DHCP service to assign addresses on a closed LAN network…
Beer for code.. the community in Open Source
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My son discovered this license statement in some code he was looking at. Daniel, I like your license: hope we…
The Developer’s Commandments Revisited.
About 20 years ago, I remember reading the original 10 commandments for C programmers. A lot of time has elapsed…
Folder Manifest 1.0.6.0 Released
This has a small enhancement: a checkbox to include the directory names in the result, including empty folders (this was…