Submitted by northben on Mon, 05/19/2014 - 17:46
If your list of wireless networks looks like this:
I'll show you how to fix it.
Submitted by northben on Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:46
When unit testing Python, how can one assert that exceptions are raised or handled? Here's how we do it:
First, here is the code we want to test:
def division_raises():
print(10/0)
def division_doesnt_raise():
try:
print(10/0)
except ZeroDivisionError:
return None
And here is how we test the code above:
Submitted by northben on Wed, 05/08/2013 - 19:31
As a Software Developer now, I suppose I'll start blogging about my crafty programming exploits. I work mainly with .NET at this point.
OH CRAP! This is another "Welcome to my blog" posts! fuuuuu
Submitted by northben on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 19:52
Submitted by northben on Wed, 12/26/2012 - 17:42
If you live in the unfortunate world of IIS6, or perhaps you're just masochistic, you're going to use ADSI in PowerShell to work with IIS. A friend of mine showed me a handy way to delete log files older than a certain date using an ADSI query in PowerShell.
Submitted by northben on Thu, 11/01/2012 - 13:24
Running Server 2008 R2, IIS 7.5, if you get this error in the Application event log:
The Module DLL C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\logcust.dll failed to load. The data is the error.
It's kind of an obscure situation. IIS is saying it could not load the logcust module, which is the Custom Logging feature. In my case, I was setting up a development server farm, and had installed this feature on one server. The shared configuration caused IIS to try loading this module on the other server.
Submitted by northben on Fri, 10/12/2012 - 14:55
I was on the phone with VMware the other day and asked if there was some way to get a list of all the snapshots I have across all of my virtual machines. The VMware rep said no, you have to click on each VM one by one. However, I figured that it could be done. Here's how I did it.
Update: more concise output
Submitted by northben on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 13:11
I am in the middle of a SQL data conversion project. Amazingly, our *new* SQL Server database requires dates to be stored in Unix format, which is a bigint field with the number of milliseconds since 01/01/1970. Amazing, I tell you.
Here are some queries that I have found useful in this project. I have updated this article to include an alternative that does not involve functions.
Submitted by northben on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 19:20
Due to unrelenting spammers, I have switched to allowing only Facebook comments on my website. I hope you are all ok with that, you Googlers of the internet!
Submitted by northben on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 22:40
You may know the convenient feature in Windows 7 to snap windows to the right and left: drag a window all the way to one side of your screen and it will snap to the side of your screen, taking up exactly one half of it. The keyboard shortcut Win+Left (right) arrow does this as well. But how do you snap windows to the top and bottom of your screen? It's easy!
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