I recently pulled out an old coding project I had started almost 10 years ago involving OFX files. OFX files are used by Money and Quicken to import transactions from banking and investment websites. The plan now is as it Continue reading OFX Library Roadmap
A personal hobby of mine is collecting CDs and whenever I acquire a new CD, there is an entire workflow that happens: The CD gets ripped, the cover art is acquired or created, then the files are processed to embed Continue reading Applying Plug-in Concepts
So, an API is by definition an application interface, meaning it should be usable by applications. But you know who really has to use them? People. Developers. And if you’re going to write an API, you should make it usable Continue reading Make Your API User Friendly
I have this side project which, on Reddit, would be considered DataHoarding and altruistically would be called digital archival preservation. In brief, it is downloading images from online catalogs to preserve them in the event the online store goes out Continue reading First Step Into A.I. using ML.NET
It’s a phrase I’ve used many times: Writing code to write code. This time it was done to save my sanity. As is pretty evident in my blog, I am a VB.NET developer. Despite that, I can understand the shrinking Continue reading VS Extensions – Writing Code To Write Code
This is more of a note for myself. Hopefully it will end up in a search engine and I’ll be able to find my own solution when this happens again. Yesterday, I went to post something to one of my Continue reading 403 xmlRPC error In WordPress Hosted On windows IIS (Remember Your Security Changes)
Today I had a breakthrough on an issue that has stewing for many months. Every once in a while, I would pick the project back up again and see if I could approach it differently and maybe come up with Continue reading Web Request Always Redirects, While Web Browser Does Not
In another hobby of mine, CD collecting, I utilize a few different tools in my collecting and cataloging process. One of which is Exact Audio Copy (EAC), which I use to rip the CD audio to my computer. When you Continue reading CUERipper CUE Only Modification
In another post I referred to this topic as a phenomena. That’s pretty over-dramatic. But there are some important rules and guidelines for types in .NET and until you know why things happen as they do, it seems like voodoo. Continue reading ByVal, ByRef, Structure, Class, ugh.
After reading the post about events and AddHandler and tracking references and hanging objects, you might be a little concerned about using events at all, maybe because of the added code or the housekeeping. If so, you can consider another Continue reading Uneventful