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 …

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

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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I attended the "VS Code Day" event through Meetup, and learned about a neat new function of the IDE for developing in a container. The session was neat and interesting, and opened my eyes up a bit as to what Microsoft intends you to use VSCode for. When thinking about the session afterwards, I was trying to apply it to …

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A while ago, I got really sick and tired of dealing with the hardware that Telus shipped me for my residential gateway, and so a new "internal" router was added. Things were good, but then I wanted to do network-wide ad blocking (to deal with ads on streaming devices...), but found that even if I specified an …

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How I got here... Part of the whole effort to mess around with Docker was to get a better understanding of what people do for continuous integration and continuous deployment - CICD. There are no shortage of services online that do this for you - Github, Azure Devops, Bitbucket.. are all names that are familiar in …

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So, as it turns out, solving the ToDo's from my last posting was pretty easy. Traefik solved most of the todo's / desired outcomes: Internal ports 80 and 443 were already occupied by other services, such as my wiki, Git repo, etc. Putting these in a container, and letting Traefik handle the path mapping addressed this. …

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