Mmm, software

One of the software engineers I've worked with in the past has a very different way of doing things. He will take the most expedient wa...

In both my current job and my past jobs, I've worked with CSV files in Microsoft Excel as a matter of necessity. Excel is just too usef...

Today I went to Google (as I do most days) to search for some stuff, but today when I got there, I was greeted with a horrible looking backg...

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...