Code Scraps: GenerateApplicationManifest build error in Visual Studio
I got an unusual error in Visual Studio the other day that I hadn’t encountered before. The error was relating to an issue doing App.Config Transformations on a C# Windows […]
Programming
Code scraps: Get all files of a type in Windows
This extends upon my previous code scrap for listing all files in Windows. If you want to produce a list of just a certain type of files in a directory […]
Code Scraps: Symbolic Links on Windows; Junctions and Hard Links
Did you know Windows can do its own equivalent of Linux Symbolic Links? It’s been able to do them for quite a while, but it’s not something a lot of […]
Code Scraps: Hide system MySQL databases from phpMyAdmin listings
Here’s a quick code scrap to hide the system MySQL and phpMyAdmin databases from being listed within the web application itself. Open your phpMyAdmin’s config.ini.php file and locate the end […]
MD5 as a password storage mechanism is still a good idea
No, I’m not mad. Hear me out It is now good practise not to use MD5 for secure hashes. There have been published rainbow tables of the most common password […]
Compiling FFmpeg for Raspberry Pi / Raspbian Jessie
There’s plenty of guides around, but none that worked flawlessly for me. Here’s my recipe for building and compiling FFmpeg for the Raspbian Jessie environment for Raspberry Pi. If you’re […]
Configure FTP on a Raspberry Pi
Firstly; let me stress that you should really try and avoid using FTP. It’s an old protocol, it’s not secure – and by default the SSH support on the Pi […]
Code Scraps; Validating undefined and null in Javascript
I’m always forgetting how to to this in Javascript – here’s a couple of ways of validating if an object is undefined or null, and the good points about using […]
Code Scraps: Get a list of all content in a directory on Windows
I recently posted a code scrap for getting all content of a directory in Linux. Here is the same code scrap but for Windows. C:\TestDir\> dir /b /s > C:\temp\files.txt […]
Code Scraps: Passing a parameter from Maven to TeamCity
I’ve spent a lot of my working career setting up build automation for teams I have worked with. For Java projects, this usually has involved creating Maven scripting for a […]