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Windows Specific Exif Tag In Photos
Tuesday, May2, 2023
While writing a custom batch application for a client to update standard EXIF tags for photos based on directory names I came across a particular challenge. He asked if I could update the XPKeywords, XPAuthor, and …
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Cross Compiling Windows Applications
Saturday, Apr15, 2023
A recent job I landed through UpWork gave me the chance to set up a new application development workflow that I’ve been wanting to nail down which allows me to do all the development and testing of the windows …
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Lost Boys Mobile Archive
Thursday, Mar3, 2022
The latest project that I’ve been indulging on is for the Lost Boys Center For Leadership Development and their Lost Boys Interview Project. If you aren’t familar with these groups please take a moment visit …
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Stupid Linux Tricks
Monday, Nov8, 2021
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. Nothing earth shattering. Just been keeping busy with personal/family stuff and have picked up a few gigs on UpWork. From an IT standpoint I decided to try and make my …
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WebDAV Revisited
Friday, Jun4, 2021
One of my clients wanted me to set up a simple single page web site that she could access and edit via WebDAV on her Mac. While I haven’t dabbled in WebDAV for a few years, how hard could it be. I’m using …
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Upgraded File Upload Logic
Saturday, Mar6, 2021
Recently one of my clients asked to have their file upload pages upgraded to show a progress bar and allow multiple files to be uploaded at once. After some DuckDuckGo-ing I settled on a solution based on FlowJS. While …
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Docker Mini Server / AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Saturday, Sep5, 2020
I haven’t gotten into Docker much yet, even thought it’s had quite the buzz over the past few years. As both part of a proposal for a prospective client, along with doint a proof of concept, I put together a …
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What, Another Web Framework?
Tuesday, May12, 2020
I’ve been developing applications for the web since the dawn or time (or at least the dawn of the internet). Everything from Server Side Includes (SSI), Perl (known as the duct tape of the internet), and PHP. …
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Linode Object Storage
Thursday, May7, 2020
So I recently found that Linode began offering S3 compatible object storage. Upon reading the documentation I found that it had the one options that pushed me to Rackspace Cloudfiles. Namely, it has an api to create a …
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Linux Live CD
Wednesday, Oct9, 2019
While trying to get my new laptop set up I used my normal procedures - namely using a USB->SATA connector to format the new drive, copy everything over, then booting a livecd with the drive in the new laptop in order …
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MYSQL Upgrade Remnamts / Dump Error
Monday, Apr30, 2018
While doing some maintenance and upgrading a backup server I noticed that the mysql dumps that are done before rsyncing daily were too small. We had just a production database over to this server a few weeks ago, and I …
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Connecting TCL To MS SQL Server (Linux) (Continued)
Saturday, Oct21, 2017
After a couple weeks of development, debugging, and testing, the revised scripts have been put into production. We just came across a couple of finer points that we had to word around. I’m guessing that these may …
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Connecting TCL To MS SQL Server (Linux)
Sunday, Oct8, 2017
One of my clients called up asking to have an old data loader script (written in TCL) updated to post to MS SQL Server as well as to the legacy Postgres server. I was kind of surprised how easy it was. I started off with …
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Trying Out New PHP Framework (Flight)
Wednesday, Sep20, 2017
We have a couple of large web projects on deck (one of which is PixelTin), and I’m really not looking forward to coding them from scratch. I’ve tried a few full blown CMS system, and PHP frameworks, which …
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Digital Signage at Sabotencon 2017
Wednesday, Sep6, 2017
This year at Sabotencon marked chibi-neko’s third convention with our raspberry pi based digital signage. We added a couple of new features, and come up with a list of to-do’s. A little background info is in …
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Continuing to Use BOLT for CMS
Wednesday, Aug30, 2017
I’m finally getting back to keeping this site updated, and I’ve decided to stick with BOLT for the CMS backing. In my previous gigs as an ISP/web developer I’ve done enough work on Wordpress sites, and …
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Trying New Cloud Backup Service (RSYNC.NET)
Friday, Nov18, 2016
After years of running our own rsync server, I’m drinking the cloud cool-aid and outsourcing our backups. Here is what brought us here. For years we’ve been using rsync to handle our daily backups to …
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Fuji X30
Monday, Jan1, 0001
My current go-to camera is my Fuji X30. This is a compact mirrorless 12mp camera with a fixed 4x zoom lens. While it doesn’t have the most impressive specs, the main features that drove me to it are: compact …
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