25
Oct
How to Implement Push Notifications for Android
I came across this great blog post by Anton Lopyrev on implementing client/server apps, with push notification on Android, using the IBM developed MQTT protocol.
Author: Matt Marschall
20
Oct
CSS positioning and the pesky scrollbar
The Firefox and Safari browsers both display the behaviour of a scrollbar “pushing” a web page 15 pixels to the left. This causes a messy look and feel on centered websites when page A has no scrollbars and page B does. The web site will shift left and right due to scrollbar displacement. To overcome this use the followingRead more about CSS positioning and the pesky scrollbar[…]
15
Oct
Trend Micro Behaviour Monitor woes
Ever had one of those days? This is the scenario: I recently rebuilt a laptop for a client. Everything was great and performance had improved dramatically. I took the laptop back onsite, plugged it in and installed Trend Micro from the server. I then attempted to install Adobe Reader but it failed with registry access denied errors.Read more about Trend Micro Behaviour Monitor woes[…]
11
Oct
Powershell script to find files recursively and export to CSV
The following script takes 3 input’s the directory to start searching from, the file extesion we are searching for (eg. .xml) and the file name to output the results as CSV to. If a result file isn’t supplied then the results are dumped to the screen. The most interesting part of this script is this @{Name=”MB”;expression={“{0:N2}” -f ($_.LengthRead more about Powershell script to find files recursively and export to CSV[…]