Category Archives: Tips

How to avoid using Unix touch command on Windows…

Posted on March 28, 2013 by spgennard

In my company we have a strange habit of using third party tools to do the most trivial things rather than using the native features. A recent example of this is the use of the “Unix” touch command on Windows. … Continue reading →

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rsync & permission denied/operation not permitted & arch linux

Posted on September 30, 2011 by spgennard

I use rsync to sync directories between machines but one of my machines kept screwing up the permissions, I finally get time to track the “Operation not permitted” issue and it turned out to my vfat backup drive not being … Continue reading →

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New Gadget

Posted on February 21, 2011 by spgennard

Over the last couple of years I have not been getting on too well with my second generation iPod Touch but it has been a bit of a love hate relationship… I love it when works well with my mac’s … Continue reading →

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Michael’s very own “Getting Started with Visual COBOL”

Posted on January 4, 2011 by spgennard

Michael Burgun over at his own blog space has started blogging about using Visual COBOL… Its worth a look as having meet Michael last year I can honestly say he is a very knowledgeable and experienced chap, so I am … Continue reading →

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DNS – Tweaks take 2

Posted on December 21, 2010 by spgennard

Although I have good results tweaking my DNS it appears it can have its side affects if you have a very fast internet connection and are doing some serious streaming… have a read of the following quoted article. If I … Continue reading →

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AzureKit and COBOL

Posted on December 14, 2010 by spgennard

AzureKit is a nice piece of source code released on CodePlex by Mark Rendle. The AzureKit makes life much easier for creating, searching, deleting elements in your Azure’s Table Storage. My idea was that if the AzureKit was easy enough … Continue reading →

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DNS – Tweaks

Posted on December 14, 2010 by spgennard

DNS speed can really affect your home router either for the better or worse.. I use a open source bit of software called namebench to periodically verify that I am using the most performant/reliable DNS server. Take a peek, it … Continue reading →

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MacBook upgrade

Posted on November 28, 2010 by spgennard

My home laptop is my beloved black macbook which has a reasonable Core Duo 2.2 ghz but unfortunately the hard drive is getting a bit full due using as my digital photo album… After a bit of research I decided … Continue reading →

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Visual COBOL 2010 R3

Posted on September 22, 2010 by spgennard

For the last couple of months I have been working on next release which is cunningly name: Visual COBOL 2010 R3 Which is surprising since the previous was called Visual COBOL 2010 R2. If you are using any of products … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 22, 2010 by spgennard

Last week I replied to a post about exceptions, it made me think those programming .Net daily take for granted the etiquette of using Exceptions. So I thought I would share some of my thoughts… well it is a sort … Continue reading →

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