Mmm, software

There are two different schools of thought when it comes to being a vendor of very large software used by millions of people : Move your sof...

I've recently been working with a lot of embedded systems via telnet, and I'll frequently forget to disconnect my session before phy...

At work, like most other organizations, we have a Linux server that we access via SSH. However, lately, I've found my use of it skyrock...

... if you use SSH to move between machines a lot. Which I do. I have several machines that I work on regularly, and a centralized develop...

Lately I've been doing a lot of embedded development with Linux, and copying files between systems has been a bit of a pain. Fortunately...

Apparently, as of Windows Vista and later, Windows no longer supports multiple video cards that don't use the same driver !! Why ? I us...

Because we have very limited space on some embedded devices that we use that run Perl, we can only store a very few modules on these systems...

A long time ago, in a job far, far away, I had to deal with some Perl. I learned just enough to get me by for the duration of the task at h...

I recently ran into some old quirks when provisioning a new server for our company's web applications on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). B...

A simple one-liner : mysqldump -u root -p mydatabasename --no-data=true --add-drop-table=false > test_dump.sql With this command, you...

In one of the projects on which I contract, we recently started encountering a problem importing and parsing text record files into our syst...

When testing some custom XML serialization I was writing for a project, I ran across a quirk of the XmlWriter created by XmlWriter#Create() ...

I recently ran across a problem where I was trying to debug some code and the Visual Studio debugger wouldn't stop in my class. It woul...

For about the last 8 or 9 hours (spread across two days) I've been troubleshooting a styling issue in WPF. I have a list of items that ...

In my last job, I frequently made use of the JAXB library provided with the Java SDK for object de/serialization. I chose to generate my sc...

Now that I've started having to do a lot more documenting for my job, I've found myself importing a lot of pictures taken as steps i...

I've recently begun a new job, and with it has come a whole new segment of the software development universe. The new job uses a lot of...

I've recently begun using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 more and more as I have increasing amounts of work that require .NET. In order to k...

Recently I had been having trouble with queries on a certain table in a system that I've been maintaining. I had gone through just abou...

Recently our production system's servers have been getting progressively slower, and it has finally gotten to the point where it's m...