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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…
I was trying to get my Home Energy Monitor application working to Google PowerMeter this evening. To get things moving quickly I decided to prototype in PowerShell (as you the full sugary goodness of the .Net framework for free). Here’s the details on accessing PowerMeter from PowerShell… Although it is…
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…
This post is for my own benefit more than anything. I frequently have to ‘google’ for the instructions to make a bootable USB drive to install some version of Windows from. So, to save time in the future, here are the instructions : Open a command prompt As Administrator. Run…
After a brief hiatus (i.e. hectic work schedule for a few months), I am back to reading. The list is currently :- ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever by the guys at 37 Signals Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to Drive Your Career and Create a Remarkable Future by…
This is a pretty obscure gotcha.. I was trying to export an Edge Subscription XML file from my Edge Transport server (a demo Exchange 2010 environment)There is no GUI for this in Exchange Management Console, so you have to use the Exchange Management Shell. Opened up EMS and entered the…
It seems that ‘Document Access’ from Outlook Web Access (OWA) is no longer supported in Exchange/OWA 2010. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998911.aspx#Disc2007to2010 However, the way this element of ‘Discontinued Features and De-Emphasized Functionality’ is worded (“Can’t use…”) makes me think it is more of a known issue than a conscious decision they have made…
I was discussing ‘googlability’ – a new word I made up meaning ‘the ability to find via Google’ – of our knowledgebase with one of the technical guys at work.It seems that we seldom get matches in Google searches (and the built in search is somewhat lame) – I was…
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…