Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
I thought my ‘Gradle Generate Release Notes’ script might be useful for others, so here you go: If you are using the built in Gradle tool for Android Studio and you want to automagically generate release notes (or a list of commit messages) from Git then this little script might help (whilst it is pretty specific…
Short reminder to myself on how to create a new server repo and do the initial push to it from a workstation. On the Server: cd Repositories mkdir Project.git git init –bare On the Workstation: cd Project git init git add * git commit “Initial commit” git remote add origin…
An application I was working on recently needed the ability for the user to drag a TreeView node onto a DataGridView, and when ‘dropped’ create a new row in the DataGridView. It is not difficult, but took me a while to put all the relevant pieces together, so I thought…
This is a bit of a mixed post, Eclipse / Android development versus Visual Studio / Windows development, and a bit of self promotion of my ‘Hundred Pushups’ app. I have been a fan of the Hundred Pushup Challenge for some time, having done weeks 3 – 6 a number…
A while back I was working on a ‘post to Twitter’ function that used the original Basic Authentication that the Twitter V1.0 API allowed. Unfortunately, at the end of Aug 2010 they discontinued support for this and forced everyone to use their oAuth authentication. There are a number of services…
This post is an update to my previous one about the CurrentCost Energy Monitor and the software I built for it. After posting brief details about it, I agreed with the guys over at the MSDN Coding for Fun site to write a full project article for them. The suggested…
I recently bought a device to monitor our household energy consumption. After looking at a few I lumped for a CurrentCost Envi. this is a great little device that comes in two parts – a transmitter with jaws that wrap around the main power cable coming into your home and…
I was working on an old (classic) ASP page the other day. It was pulling data from an Access database file and using an ODBC driver to get the connection. It was working fine on a Windows 2003 server, but when I pulled the file into a local website on…
Recently I have been working with DotNetNuke. This is a superb open source CMS platform running on ASP.NET with a SQL back end, simple to install, easy to use and there is a thriving community around it. It is also available in a ‘Professional’ version which costs around £2000 per…
Yesterday on Leon’s Blog, secretGeek, I noticed they had released v3.4 of TimeSnapper. One of the features that caught my eye was the ability to develop/add plugins to it. I love plugins, I’ve written plugins for Windows Live Writer, Outlook, dasBlog, and more. Everything should have an SDK or plugin’able…
