Mmm, software

Both the company I currently work for and the previous company I worked for use WPF extensively in some of their products. I recently ran ac...

Further to my previous post on deleting subversion folders with powershell, I recently had the need to do the same in bash on linux. Here...

I've recently had problems connecting to a Tomcat server setup by another developer. In order to troubleshoot these problems, I wanted ...

To really understand the event model in Microsoft's Silverlight / WPF frameworks, you need to start off with a proper mental model. You...

In the past, I've had a bit of experience trying to install and run ramdisks in Windows XP, but I never found anything really good. Mic...

So, as you may or may not know, when using Microsoft Team Foundation Server for version control, TFS maps remote project paths into local fi...

Ok, so I've left my previous employer and started at a new job. This means new domains of knowledge, new tools, and new people. My new...

MySQL workbench has been out for quite a while, under the guise of the people at MySQL. For the longest time, I stuck to using just the ind...

Here's a quick list for running multiple Tomcat 6 instances on Ubuntu 10.04 : Copy the /etc/init.d/tomcat script with a new name in the ...

I've recently come across a case where I need to drop all the tables in my database (ie effectively truncate the database) but MySQL has...

I've found that sometimes, I just need a quick and dirty copy of a database to test changes against, and it doesn't matter if the da...

I know that there's a lot of great, wonderful things that can be done on-the-fly through SSH. It's one of the greatest tools out th...

Our company uses log files in our machines to log raw data in real-time so that we have a history of what's happened on jobs that can be...

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...