Today, I was restoring a backup of a WordPress site I have. Copied all the files into a folder, squirted all the data back into MySQL and set up a separate website in IIS. All was fine, I could bro...

Okay, so I like the new Gmail design – cleaner and more whitespace – just looks much more modern that the existing one. Though, I’m still not keen on having to go across to the little ‘back arrow’...

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...

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 P...

For the past year (2010) I had been using SportyPal – an application for tracking exercise (runs mainly for me). It has mobile apps (iPhone, Android, WinMob etc.) that do the actual tracking and th...

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 su...

This evening, I was trying to get my Home Energy Monitor application working to Google PowerMeter To get things moving quickly I decided to prototype in PowerShell (as you get the full sugary go...

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...

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...

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 ...