Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• git bisect - first time usage impression

  7 Mar, 2015

  First hands-on experience with git bisect to locate a regression in an ASP.NET WebForms GridView rendering bug.

• SQL Server Management Studio and very large strings

  18 Feb, 2015

  Working around SSMS truncation of nvarchar(max) strings during concatenation and result copying via FOR XML PATH.

• Adding AC3 support for MX Player for Android

  17 Feb, 2015

  Installing a custom codec to add AC3 audio playback support to MX Player on Android.

• Dolphin Browser - Browser for Android with Adobe Flash support

  17 Feb, 2015

  Dolphin Browser as a stable Android browser option for sites that still require Adobe Flash.

• Debugging weird focus behavior in browser

  13 Feb, 2015

  Technique for debugging unexpected focus changes by monkey-patching HTMLElement.prototype.focus with a debugger breakpoint.

• IE vs Firefox and Chrome and jQuery val() vs attr('value')

  28 Jan, 2015

  Cross-browser bug where jQuery .val() returns null on non-form elements in Firefox and Chrome but works in IE.

• Execution of external commands in PowerShell done right

  10 Jan, 2015

  A PowerShell exec helper that correctly captures stdout and stderr from native commands and checks exit codes.

• Get EXIF metadata with PowerShell

  10 Jan, 2015

  Reading EXIF tags such as date-taken from images in PowerShell using System.Drawing.Image.

• PowerShell and IDisposable

  10 Jan, 2015

  Implementing a PSUsing helper function in PowerShell that mimics C# using blocks for IDisposable objects.

• PowerShell auto variable $LastResult

  10 Jan, 2015

  Adding a $LastResult automatic variable to PowerShell by wrapping Out-Default to store the last pipeline output.