Sep 13, 2017 | Software |
I really enjoy errors in software that occur randomly for no reason. 🙂 One that recently occurred was an installed Adobe application (InDesign) that suddenly failed to start. Reinstalling the software didn’t help. Starting the application would run Adobe...
Mar 31, 2017 | Software |
When you have hundreds of stores in uStore, making updates on all of them takes a very long time. This doesn’t matter if your paid by the hour, but if your in a hurry and need everything updated quickly, the manual method is not the best solution. For your...
Nov 29, 2010 | Software |
One of the really amazing features of a PDF form is that you can make the fields fillable by the user and then e-mail the form results. This could greatly decrease the use of paper and NCR forms if it was widely used. Trying to Find a Solution When I first tried to...
Apr 22, 2009 | Software |
<sarcasm>Everyone enjoys seeing Windows messages like the following:</sarcasm> You can’t delete files in Windows when their file handle is still open in the operating system. This can still occur even after you closed the document and the application...
Mar 30, 2007 | Software |
This is a utility I wrote for a department at work to stamp a date and time for an annotation in an e-mail. The e-mail client we are using does not support this feature so we have to do it manually. The program is interesting because it shows how to send keystrokes...
Nov 15, 2006 | Software |
This utility can set the date and time of a file. It was originally written in Visual C++ and has been ported to C#. The source code is included. I wrote this program mainly to show how easy it is to set the date and time of a file. I’ve seen overly complicated...