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My blog of techy stuff, ranging around SQL (SQL Server, that is), C# and .net, JavaScript and a smattering of stuff about the Orchard CMS (that powers my site) as I get more familiar with it. There's the occasional non-technical post when something is of interest to me that I feel is worth sharing, but they should be few and far between
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Replacing our home WiFi with Ubiquiti UniFi
TL;DR: Ubiquiti UniFi is the single best thing we've ever done for our home network / WiFi!
Up until very recently we've been using an ageing DrayTek 2830 series router, along with the modem …
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Disabling the "System Recovery Options" window in Windows
Raymond Chen over at The Old New thing posted yesterday "Why did my systems reboot into the Recovery Environment and how do I prevent that from happening in the future?" where he explains (a) when/ …
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Deserializing awkward JSON using Json.NET
Aside: I'm never quite sure whether every instance of a word which has a Z in it, that sounds like it could have an S in it, should have an S in it when it's en-gb instead of en-us. In this instance …
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When is ALT-D not ALT-D, when it's en-gb :-(
I've been banging my head against the desk for the past week or so as the most recent Windows 10 Insider builds, 16278 if not before, have had the most frustrating (yes, first world problems!) bug. …
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Using structured data to blog recipes
In my other blog I've been writing up recipes for years now, albeit with varying frequency, with a combination of recipes I've found and tweaked and recipes that I've created from scratch (the latter …
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Link Dump
Things I've read recently that I want to keep track off, and perhaps comment on slighty.
PowerShell Tutorial – Try Catch Finally and error handling in PowerShell
I've recently been putting together …
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Compressing directories to ZIP from PowerShell
A quick note to self about compressing folders using PowerShell, basically the trick is to use the ZipFile class from the System.IO.Compression.FileSystem assembly:
$directory = "C:\Path\To\ …
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Documentation - the oft neglected step-child of a project
I've recently started contributing to the documentation for the Orchard CMS project (GitHub: https://github.com/OrchardCMS/OrchardDoc), my reasons for this are many:
I've been using Orchard as the …
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There's more to console than .log
A tweet I saw reminded me that the Javascript Console object has more to it than just "log"
Protip: there are many siblings to console.log(), like .group(), .error(), .assert() formatting and much …
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2017-08 update for Windows 10 Anniversary Update ("1607") breaks WSUS - WSUS gets a fix as well!
It looks like Microsoft are going all out to fix the issues introduced in the 2017-08 update for Windows 10 as an update to WUS has been released to resolve a single solitary issue (as well as the …