Backstory I think just about everyone of my posts I start with some sort of justification why I'm writing the post. I don't really know why .. other than I think it serves as a good reminder of what I was doing when I wrote the darned post ... As usual, these things start off at work. We had a bit of a security audit …

Some of my notes on how we used PowerApps to solve some COVID problems at work I should have done this sooner, because I'm not likely to remember all the details too much. This won't be a "technology post" so much, or even a how-to - maybe more a reminder of the tools we used to solve the problems we ran into …

And just like that, all my base are belong to Cloudflare. It started with DNS ... It started out pretty simply: Cloudflare offered front-end caching for your website, provided you ran your DNS through them. They would proxy the connections for me, provide SSL (through Lets Encrypt), and I could still update DNS through …

Maps on portable devices Getting working maps on a mobile device is reasonably straightforward, especially if you're able to be connected to a cellular service. The challenge starts to increase when you may not have connectivity, or have limited bandwidth or speed on your device. Offline maps within tools like Google …

Say what now? Sure, MS, VirusTotal really is a nefarious site that you should prevent me from going to.

Autocorrected Emails Sometimes I get the weirdest emails from my clients. This one took a little bit to figure out: I initially misread that email to say "Accordion Locked Outside?", which led me to Google to see what on earth this client meant by this. In the end, the message was meant to be "Account …

We started back in May 6, 2015 - we deconstructed the old bathtub, cut it up, and threw it out. The tub had a good crack in the bottom of it, and as it turned out, it had been leaking on to the subfloor below it. Nothing major in terms of damage - most of the water had been soaked up by the wood in the bathtub …

So, I can write a PDF... Last post I managed to generate an empty PDF with Powershell using iText, after working through dependencies and order of inclusion for running some .NET libraries in powershell. It's made me wonder if there's a better way to handle the inclusion of libraries in a Powershell script, and if …

Using nuget stuff in Powershell I was asked to write some automation to deal with several thousand pages of PDF work.. Cool, sounds like something new, and not quite in my wheelhouse, so a good reason to get to some learning. After a bit of searching (and searching through old work), I find that iText7 seems to be the …

Work is finally getting around to enabling OneDrive for Business (ODFB) for all our users. This is cool, because finally we'll be able to legit be able to collaborate on stuff - instead of this song and dance of save files to the network, wait for a lock to close and so on. One of the things we ran up against is that …