Recently, my daughter wanted a ringtone for her new favorite song, “Soulmate” by Mac Miller. Here is what I used after poking around with ffmpeg. -i – input file-ss – start time in seconds, can be other formats, i.e., 2:19-t…
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School Picture Racket
Every parent knows Lifetouch sets its prices at tolerable levels. Every year it’s the same form, exact pricing. We give in. My daughter’s school switched to a company that attempted to charge $110 for one digital image. Thanks for the…
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Debugging Hell
I’ve dealt with a conundrum for the past 72 hours. My TouchID key had seemed to stopped working on my ’17 MacBook Pro. That meant a few difficult things: The only way of doing anything was waiting for the battery…
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Getting Sublime’s Package Control Working
I’m trying out Sublime Text after using Atom forever and ever; even after being sunsetted years ago. The only issue was ST’s Package Control wasn’t working, which was one of Atom’s greatest features. It looks like this has plagued users…
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Setting Version-Agnostic Environment Variables
A new job means a new development environment! Our wiki had us setting environment variables for JAVA_HOME, etc. tied to specific versions. I poked around to see if there’s a way to do that version-agnostically. Turns out there is! Especially…
Commands To Install MSMQ By OS Version
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Using Reusable ZeroMQ C Helpers
Now it’s really easy to throw data around using the 0MQ helpers written up before! Subscribe This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file…
Reusable ZeroMQ C Helpers
My most recent project has involved a few common 0MQ patterns like request-reply, forwarding, and topic subscription. I was using each of these enough to move them out to a shared library that could be improved as I encountered bugs…
Reactive Extensions, amazing
The Reactive Extensions library is amazing. It has turned what was sure to be a mess of crap code into a few lines that are easy to understand and very easy to test. I had a requirement that was very…
Order Checking in Rhino Mocks with AAA Syntax
Rhino Mocks recently switched to AAA syntax (Arrange, Act, Assert) from Record/Replay. It’s fairly easy to make the switch. I did run into a problem checking the order of calls made on my mocked objects though. It seemed my expected calls…
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