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 Read More …
Category: Code Cutting
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
.Net WiFi Programming
Some time ago I was asked to write some code to detect if a user had saved a connection to an Open/Public Wifi point, and Read More …
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 Read More …
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: Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
Using VBScript to read though a set of registry keys
I’m currently doing another deployment of Acrobat Reader, this time with VBScript. I wrote about using Visual Basic to do that here. Function CheckForPro Read More …