Tim Hoolihan

I installed a scanner / printer directly via usb on a windows machine at my new home. At my previous home, it was hooked to a time capsule and I would plug it into my mac to scan. Canon has some software “MP Navigator” that does the scanning and handily puts the scans into documents. [...]

Archer: Season 1 comes out this week! I watched the entire season on Netflix three times this fall…

I’ve now read 2 books on my Kindle, David Maister’s Managing The Professional Service Firm and William Gibson’s Neuromancer. Reading Maister’s book helped highlight some of the features of the kindle. The ability to highlight snippets of text for later, and take simple notes added to the experience. However, it’s worth noting if you’re a [...]

When working with php, rails, python, etc, windows is sufficient, but definitely leaves something to be desired. The ports of these languages are definitely second class. With Microsoft’s backing php support with IIS is improving, but it’s not the same. And usually you are going to deploy those apps on a linux/bsd web server, so [...]

I did not realize that functions can fill in for predicates directly without lambda notation. To illustrate, consider the following: void Main() { var words = new List<string>() { “therapists”, “s words”, “slang”, “mustache”, “sean connery” }; var s_words = words.Where(w => w.StartsWith(“s” ,StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase)); foreach(var word in s_words) { Console.WriteLine(word); } } It works, but [...]

It’s a long story, so here’s the SuperUser.com posting.

Mary Kate watches me work, originally uploaded by thoolihan.

With a little help from StackOverflow, I got emacs over ssh working on windows. This is trivial on mac/linux, but can be a challenge on windows. dired mode works too! To summarize: 1. Download putty installer with all the tools. 2. Put putty install in the path 3. Generate a key with PuttyGen 4. Copy [...]

Here’s a strange one I’ve never run into. I was recently helping a developer figure out why some controls were not binding and showing on the page. I noticed they were using html style comments in their page around some controls instead of .net style comments. This was the problem. Server side code still runs, [...]

When implementing a new SilverLight custom control, it was blocking menu popups (html / javascript) on the page. I set the z-index of the div and object tags that contained SilverLight to no avail. After a lot of googling, I found the following solution. Set the Windowless property to true. In the case of manually [...]