Getting Last Known Reboot Time
This is more of an aide-memoir for me than anything else. To find out when a server was last rebooted: System Event Log, filter for EventID 6009 on Windows 2008 you can use systeminfo | find “System Boot Time” I…
“86% of developers listen to music whilst coding” and other stats
Zend Technologies have just released their latest ‘Developer Pulse’ survey results. You can see the full report here, but it’s mostly PHP-based (as Zend are mostly PHP based) However, at the end of the reports are some more generic, lighter…
FTP folder upload via command line / macro madness & WinSCP
I was pair-programming today and we made a change to a fundamental data type which required all the web-services to be rebuilt and republished. We’d done this a couple of times before. The build is OK, but what then follows…
Visual Studio New Class Template Modification
New Year is a good time for some introspection. I’ve been looking at how I can do things, and re-reading the most excellent book The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master. One of the mantras of a pragmatic programmer is…
Our Amazing Internet World
The web is a big place. Sometimes though, it’s hard to visualise quite how big, and how much goes on in it. Barry Ritholz has produced two amazing Infographics which really bring home quite how amazing the whole thing is.…