Saturday Link Roundup-Assorted
DaleTables Generator I so dislike having to code HTML Tables manually, Tables Generator makes it easy. Personality Tests – summary from Atomic Habits Recently finished reading Atomic Habits by James…
I needed the city name from a photo, aka Reverse Geocoding …
as I had a photo where I didn't know where I had taken it. I was in a Python class at the time, and thought "this would be a fun…
So what’s that about WordPress not allowing certain web link types
(aka URI or protocol handlers) First released with WordPress version 3.3, December 2011, the wp_allowed protocols() function/feature. You can only link with the following: fax feed ftp / ftps gopher…
Windows Compressed (zipped) Folder – Not programmatically drivable
"One of the terms of the license is that the compression and decompression code for Zip folders should be tied to UI actions and not be programmatically drivable. The main…
Downloading Outlook contact photos / profile pictures
I wanted to grab the photos (“ContactPicture”) that people put in their Outlook Contact Details.Not sure if I grabbed this code from somewhere, or wrote it myself. Just leaving it…
.Net WiFi Programming
Some time ago I was asked to write some code todetect if a user had saved a connection to an Open/Public Wifi point, anddelete it if it exists.The code had…
Today I learnt about FIPS and SHA1
System.InvalidOperationException: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms. at System.Security.Cryptography.SHA1Managed..ctor() at .... When I say “learnt”, it was more about reading documents to determine…
How to delay in a batch file
by using the CHOICE command. Which is a hack, but it works. To delay for 5 seconds: choice /T 5 /D Y An explanation follows: /T is the number of…
Saturday Link Roundup
Programming Sucks ”There will always be darkness I spent a few years growing up with a closet in my bedroom. The closet had an odd design. It looked normal at…
Getting a list of printers published in an Active Directory domain
So I need to get a list of print servers and printers in the domain. Using Powershell. Looking around the interwebs, I found a PowerShell commandline here which formed the…